Monday, 26 September 2011
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Monday, 26 September 2011
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Monday, 26 September 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Sara Douglass, bestselling Australian fantasy writer, has died.  The author twice won the Aurelius Award for Best Fantasy Novel. HarperCollins writes:  ‘Sara was the first Australian signed to HarperCollins' Voyager list...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Brian Harris, founding Director of the Australian Branch of Cambridge University Press, has died aged 84. Cambridge University Press writes:‘Brian's association with Cambridge began in 1946 when he joined the...

Sunday, 25 September 2011
In 1971 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson was asked to a meeting of mainly educational publishers, who thought it would be a good idea for Thorpe to start a weekly trade newsletter, primarily...

Thursday, 22 September 2011
The shortlist for this year's Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria (John Bradley & Yanyuwa Families, A&U)The Vintage and...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Brimbank Literary Festival: 12-23 September Sisters in Crime, Melbourne: 22 September Marlborough Literature Festival, UK :...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Novelist Richard Flanagan's collected short pieces of nonfiction called And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (Random House) received the same number of mentions as Peggy Frew's debut novel House...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
In rights news this week:SalesChildren's--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to the ‘Billie B Brown' series (Sally Rippin) and ‘The Phoenix Files' series (Chris Morphew); six further titles in...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
‘We have made great progress as an industry in the last couple of years in working together and developing the sort of information that we require in order to plan...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Among the many international news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'Amazon is nobody's friend'novelist leaves HarperCollins over 'sexist, degrading' covers US bookstore sales drop...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
In the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher Magazine we review 21 titles due for publication in November. You can read about the ones our reviewers particularly liked on our blog here....

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced that the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP) and the Commonwealth Short Story Competition will be re-launched in October 2011, with a number of changes to be...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Radio National manager Michael Mason has stated that the ABC radio station's planned changes to its Book Show program will 'refocus the program on to fiction'. Replying to concerns raised...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Kate O’Donnell reviews Nanberry: Black Brother White (Jackie French, Angus & Robertson), Andrew Wilkins reviews Interferon Psalms (Luke Davies, A&U) and Katie Horner reviews The...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Kathy Reichs' Flash and Bones (William Heinemann), the latest thriller in the 'Temperance Brennan' investigative series, is top of the bestsellers chart, followed by James Patterson's Kill Me If You Can...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The Northern Rivers Writers' Centre (NRWC) has announced that it is looking for a new director for the 2012 Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF).Sarah Ma, information manager for the NRWC, told...

Monday, 19 September 2011
Dymocks wins online retail awardDymocks has won the Online Retail (Media & Entertainment) category at the 2011 Amber Awards, presented for excellence in online services in Australia and New Zealand....

Sunday, 18 September 2011
'Via Negativa, The Divine Dark' by Robert Adamson has won this year's Blake Poetry Prize, presented by the NSW Writers' Centre and the Blake Society. Adamson's poem was one of...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Indexing see Change: ANZSI Conference, Brighton, Vic: 12-14 September Brimbank Literary Festival: 12-23 September'Open Your Eyes'...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Anna Funder's Stasiland was a massive hit when it was released several years ago, so it's no surprise that her debut novel All That I Am (Hamish Hamilton) is generating huge...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
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