Monday, 18 October 2010
Based on the novel by Peter Cameron, director James Ivory's The City of Your Final Destination is a film about doctoral student Omar Razaghi who has been awarded a grant...

Sunday, 17 October 2010
Ford Street Publishing has launched a new speaker's agency. The Melbourne-based publisher of fiction for children and young adults launched Creative Net last week. The agency is designed to represent...

Thursday, 14 October 2010
Random House and Pan Macmillan to partner with OverDrive Australian publishers Random House and Pan Macmillan have entered into partnerships to make their ebook titles available through global ebook distributor...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Erin L. Cox from Publishing Perspectives reports: Tim Coronel, the publisher of Bookseller + Publisher, hosted a panel on Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the Australian and New Zealand markets,...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
OctoberIan Britain, Text (Donald Friend Diaries)Brendan Cowell, Pan Macmillan (How It Feels)Michael Chugg, Pan Macmillan (Hey, You in the Black Shirt)Sally Dingo, Hachette (Unsung Ordinary Men)Tim Flannery, Text (Here on...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.The prize was announced in Stockholm on 7 October by the Swedish Academy, who selected Vargas...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Wellington poet and creative nonfiction writer Chris Price has been awarded the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. The prize enables a New Zealand writer to work at the Villa Isola...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Queensland poet, writer, journalist and theatre critic David Rowbotham AM has died, aged 86. Rowbotham received the Patrick White Award in 2007.

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Cyril Renwick AO, professor and co-author of The Economic Pattern (Longmans Green), has died aged 90.

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Howard Jacobson has won the £50,000 (A$80,000) 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury).The award was announced at a presentation dinner in London overnight. Allen &...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
UQP's Kirty Burow attended the Brisbane ‘Women of Letters' event last week and summed up the experience with a letter of her own, for the Fancy Goods blog here. Also...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The 2010 Citibank Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia last week was the largest in the festival's history. The four-day festival was attended by 135 writers from 27...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Torment (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), the young adult paranormal romance novel and sequel to Fallen (Doubleday), is first on the bestseller chart and highest new entries chart this week. In another...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
As we await the finalisation of Frankfurt rights deals, Scholastic reports the company has licensed the UK rights to three titles: You (Stephen Michael King), Farticus Maximus: Bottomus Burps of...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The November issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 25 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, book news, event reports, category round-ups and interviews with authors Brendan Cowell, Peter Robb and...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
The 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday, with a consensus from all quarters that this year's fair was a particularly ‘buzzy' and successful one. Following a slightly glum mood...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Among the many international booktrade articles added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Walker Books expands into IndiaHow green is ereading?CWA Dagger award winners'All of this is...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
‘Who thought all us English majors would be spending all our time on metadata?'--Doninique Raccah of US-based independent publisher Sourcebooks, speaking at the Frankfurt Tools of Change conference on all...

Monday, 11 October 2010
The Australian Poetry Centre and the Poets Union will merge to form a national organisation at the start of 2011. The two organisations will join forces as of the 1...