Tuesday, 13 December 2011
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth.Cadel Evans, Hardie Grant (The Long Road to Paris) Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.Becca Fitzpatrick, Simon & Schuster (Silence) Sydney, Melbourne and...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients chosen to receive funding in 2012. The 2012 grant recipients are:Save the Children ($20,000), for the 'delivery of weekly literacy and play sessions...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Gilbert Adair, novelist and film critic, has died aged 66. Adair's works include the 'Evadne Mount' trilogy, and Flickers: A History of the Cinema in 100 Images.  Three of his...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Bill Gammage has won the 'individual' section of the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards for his book The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (A&U). Gammage's...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced that Jodie Mann has been appointed to take over the position of managing director when current managing director Peter Shaw retires in February 2012....

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
John Wiley & Sons Australia has announced that Lucy Russell, general manager for higher education, will retirement from the company in April 2012. The publisher said in a statement that...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
The annual Bookseller+Publisher pre-Christmas survey gives the trade a picture of how booksellers are faring in the lead up to Christmas. If your business has not yet completed the survey, please take a...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Kay Scarpetta is on a mission to get to the bottom of the murder of her former deputy chief Jack Fielding. While following a lead at a women's prison, she...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Amelia Vahtrick reviews Darius Bell and the Crystal Bees (Odo Hirsch, A&U), David Cohen reviews The Rattler and Other Stories (AS Patrić, Spineless Wonders) and...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage have announced funding of NZ$1 million (approximately A$756,000) for New Zealand's country of honour project...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:two self-pub titles in Amazon's 2011 top 10 bestsellersbooksellers protest Amazon's price-check appsales and...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
As an update to last week's Chistmas closing list, please note these additional entries and amendments.Peribo22/12/114/1/12Random House (office)23/12/113/1/12Random House (warehouse)Closed public holidaysUniLink Data ServicesEmergency support during holidays, and open 10am to 4pm...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Every year we ask publishers to share their most anticipated titles for the following year. Here's what they had to say...FictionPatrick White's (pictured) final novel The Hanging Garden (April), which...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Dymocks has officially launched its web-based publishing arm, D Publishing. As previously reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter, the new business, which can be accessed at www.dpublishing.com, allows users to upload draft...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
The Australian book market has had a few hurdles in the past year, but overall signs are positive, as Tim Coronel and Andrew Rankin report in this overview from our international...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Dymocks' new publishing arm D Publishing has amended aspects of its author contract in response to criticism of the service. Dymocks general manger of ecommerce Michael Allara told the Weekly...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Jonathan Parsons has been appointed the new director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. Parsons ‘brings to this position over twenty years experience working in the arts and cultural scenes,...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
The Griffith Review and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) have announced a new competition for novellas. The Novella Project seeks 'the best original novellas from citizens or residents of Australia...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
'I think people are coming out of recession mode and there are fewer shops for them to buy from'--Heather Dyer on what she thinks is shaping up as a good...

Tuesday, 13 December 2011
For the ninth year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall...

Monday, 12 December 2011
The State Library of Victoria's has announced the appointment of Sue Roberts as its new CEO and state librarian.Roberts, who has 15 years' experience in strategic library leadership in the UK and...

Monday, 12 December 2011
Australian poet John Kinsella has withdrawn from the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry because of ethical concerns about award sponsor Aurum Funds, reports the Bookseller. Kinsella, shortlisted for...

Monday, 12 December 2011
The winner of the 2011 Human Rights Literature Award was announced in Sydney on 9 December. The nonfiction award, which is sponsored by the Co-op Bookshop, was awarded to Half...

Monday, 12 December 2011
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett...