Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Lorraine McGee-Sippel is the winner of the 2009 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. McGee-Sippel is the author of Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?,...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Social networking book site Booktagger has launched a new affiliate program that will reward users whose recommendations lead to a book sale. ‘Community members recommend books to their extended social...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The titles shortlisted for this year's Walkley Nonfiction Book Award have been announced. In the running for the award are: Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Pan Macmillan)The Mother of Mohammed...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Beverley Farmer is the winner of this year's $25,000 Patrick White Literary Award. ‘Farmer is not a prolific writer but rather an intense, meditative and gifted stylist,' said judges Debra...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Fantasy fans will be happy that Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm has reached number one in the Highest New Entries and number three in the Bestseller charts...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Information evening for the Professional Writing and Editing course at Chisholm Institute, Frankston, VIC, 12...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough) Judy...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Peter Carey continues his reign of the Most Mentioned chart in MX this week. His new book Parrot and Olivier in America has been receiving some very positive reviews. The...

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Author Esther Hautzig has died, aged 79. She wrote The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia as well as A Gift for Mama and A Picture of Grandmother.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK 'bestsellers' selling fewer copiesMacmillan US contract sparks ebook royalty debateNook e-reader is B&N's biggest...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Young Australian author Matthew Reilly casts aside Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and other contenders for first place with The Five Greatest Warriors nabbing top spot in both the Bestsellers...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ACBA annual conference, Brisbane, 4-6 NovemberRoom to Read event--Books: Bridges to Beyond, Sydney, 5 NovemberMelbourne...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Authors on tour from November to March 2010: November Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater) Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough) Judy...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The wife of the late and legendary Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, has sanctioned Eoin Colfer to write the sixth novel in what isn't...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Fergus Barrowman, publisher, Victoria University Press writes:(From the Booksellers NZ website) 'We are tremendously sad to tell you of the sudden death of Heather McKenzie, in the very early hours...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
French anthropologist, philosopher and author Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. Among other titles, he wrote a four-volume work called Mythologiques about the structure of native mythology in the Americas.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction and nonfiction were announced on Monday 2 November by Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett, at a ceremony in Sydney.The...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The winners of the New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement were announced last week. C K Stead was awarded the prize for fiction; Brian Turner the prize for...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Several Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted titles include: People of the Book (Geraldine...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
The Rehearsal by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for this year's Guardian First Book Award. Reporting the shortlist, Guardian arts correspondent Mark Brown said the book had...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Random House NZ has announced it has purchased independent publisher Longacre Press. Longacre, which was established in 1994, will become an imprint of Random House New Zealand, with publisher Barbara...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Shaun Tan and Margo Lanagan have both been successful at the 2009 World Fantasy Awards, presented at the World Fantasy Convention in the US over the weekend. Tan won the...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Christopher Cheng is the winner of the 2009 Lady Cutler Award. The Award recognises distinguished service to children's literature, primarily in NSW and is administered by the NSW branch of...

Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Jeremy Fisher has announced his resignation from the position of Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Fisher, who has been a vocal spokesperson for the Society during...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
The shortlist for the 2009 CAL Waverly Library Award, also know as ‘The Nib', has been announced. This year's shortlisted works are:Tom Wills (Greg de Moore, A&U)The Land I Came...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Scribe has sold North American rights of Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World (Idan Ben-Barak) to Basic Books, Italian rights to Edizioni Dedalo, Portuguese...