Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Fantasy novelist Anne McCaffrey, author of Restoree (1967) and the 'Dragonriders of Pern' series, has died aged 85. McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award, and also the first...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Random House Australia has ‘a number of new digital publishing projects underway including the release and development of Story-cuts', according to marketing and publicity director and head of digital Brett...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Delia Falconer has won this year's Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Waverley Library Award for Literature for her book Sydney (NewSouth). Falconer was presented with the $20,000 award, known as ‘the...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Kylie Sutcliffe is the recipient of the inaugural Andrew Mason Prize for Most Promising Editor. The annual prize is offered by the Mason Publishing Trust to a graduate of the...

Monday, 21 November 2011
The winners of the 2011 Whitley Awards, presented by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, have been announced. The Whitley Medal has been presented to Australian Land Snails...

Monday, 21 November 2011
Australian poet John Kinsella has been shortlisted for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. Kinsella's Armour (Picador) is one of 10 collections shortlisted for the £15,000 (approximately A$23,700)...

Monday, 21 November 2011
The winners of the 2011 New Zealand Copyright Licensing Limited Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Auckland on 17 November. The winning and highly commended titles in each of the...

Monday, 21 November 2011
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced that publisher James Fraser will retire from the company at the end of this year. Fraser spent 25 years in the role of publishing director...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Barbara Grier, co-founder of Naiad Press, has died aged 78. Naiad Press (sold to Bella Books in 2003) was once the world's largest publishing house dedicated to gay and lesbian...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Peter Roebuck, ABC cricket commentator, newspaper columnist and author, has died in South Africa, aged 55.Patrick Gallagher, Allen & Unwin chairman and publisher of three of Roebuck's books, writes:‘It was...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The New South Wales government has announced that it has appointed a panel to review the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the NSW Premier's History Awards. Arts NSW said in...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Arnie Avery by Sue Walker (Walker Books) has won this year's Children's Peace Literature Award. The biennial award, worth $2000, is presented by the Psychologists for Peace, a South Australian-based...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
In recent rights news:SalesFiction--Scribe has sold German and Croatian rights in Bereft (Chris Womersley) to DVA, an imprint of Random House and Fraktura respectively; Portuguese rights to the ‘Jack Susko'...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Eloise Keating reviews Women of Letters (ed by Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy, Viking); Max Oliver reviews Jane Gleeson White's ‘riveting book' on...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 37 reviews of Australian and New Zealand titles published in December to April 2012 and a feature on forthcoming health and leisure titles. It...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
In Michael Connelly's latest novel, The Drop (A&U), LAPD detective Harry Bosch is not far from retirement when he's handed two cases to solve. In the pursuit of both, he...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
‘This report will not reduce the price of books and will not improve supply chain efficiencies to the extent required to keep customers coming into Australian bookstores (Prices stay up...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised more than $420,000 this year to fund efforts to improve literacy levels and the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote...

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kobo launches ad-supported Touch reader in the USUS Authors Guild voices concerns about Amazon...

Monday, 14 November 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:National Novel Writing Month: 1-30 November ABA NSW Branch Christmas Party & NSW/ACT Sales Rep of...

Monday, 14 November 2011
All five books on the most mentioned chart received equal mentions this week. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has published a volume of speeches and occasional pieces in After Words: The...

Monday, 14 November 2011
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Monday, 14 November 2011
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Monday, 14 November 2011
NovemberJohn Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth.Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and Melbourne.Janelle Bloom, Ebury (My Favourite Food for...