Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Pete Evans’ Family Food (Plum) is this week’s fastest mover, having jumped from sixth to first spot on the top 10 bestsellers chart. The rest of the titles in the top 10 remain...

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Australian author Jackie French has been named the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year.French was presented with the honour at a ceremony in Canberra on 25 January, where she spoke...

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Overland has launched a new Fair Australia Prize to encourage writers and artists ‘to be part of setting a new agenda for Australia’.The winner of each category—short fiction, essay, poetry, and...

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Literary journal Seizure has announced the shortlist for this year’s Viva La Novella competition.The six shortlisted authors are: Mark Brandi Christy Collins Nick Gadd Jane Rawson Libby Sommer Marlee Jane Ward.  This...

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Monash University Publishing has been presented with a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Exceptional Performance by Professional Staff.The award was one of four given to teams within Monash University in 2014,...

Friday, 23 January 2015
The effect of the minimum wage and penalty rates on businesses will be examined as part of the Productivity Commission’s wider review of the industrial relations system. Five papers released...

Friday, 23 January 2015
A philanthropist couple has donated $5m to the University of Melbourne to establish a new professorship to ‘advance the teaching, understanding and public appreciation of Australian literature’.The Boisbouvier Founding Chair...

Thursday, 22 January 2015
The program for New Zealand’s guest of honour pavilion at the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) has been announced.Eighty-five delegates will represent New Zealand at TIBE, which runs from 11-16 February. The...

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘With e-books and e-readers, there was a crazy, massive spike in the past few years and it was scaring retailers. Now the e-book has 20 per cent of the market...

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Digital Writers’ Festival has announced a number of events in the 2015 program ahead of the full launch on 4 February.The online-only festival, which is hosted by the Emerging Writers’...

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
James Alexander (Jim) Thorburn, former bookseller at Pocket Bookshops in Sydney, has died, aged 90. His daughter, Rosemary Thorburn, writes:‘Jim ran the Pocket Bookshops from 1959 to 1979 with his wife, Hilda....

Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week program has been launched.The event will run from Saturday 28 February to Thursday 5 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide. As previously reported...

Monday, 19 January 2015
Writer, editor and bookseller Jo Case has joined the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) as its new program manager.Case, who joins the team in February, will replace program manager and schools’...

Friday, 16 January 2015
New Zealand booksellers have increased their Christmas sales by 10.5% in value and 8.6% in volume in 2014, reports Booksellers NZ.Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould said: ‘Figures from Nielsen show a...

Friday, 16 January 2015
Former Hachette campaign manager Jaki Arthur is launching a new Sydney-based arts agency.Arthur told Books+Publishing that Jaki Arthur Management + PR (JAM PR) will offer services such as books and arts publicity;...

Friday, 16 January 2015
The Wheeler Centre is turning five in February.Melbourne’s centre for books, writing and ideas will mark its five-year anniversary with a series of gala events throughout the month. The first is...