Tuesday, 9 August 2011
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The titles shortlisted for the 2011 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works are: Primary SchoolBest Student Learning Print or Blended Resource--Arts/Science/HumanitiesAustralian Middle...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Allen & Unwin has sold Portuguese rights for When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett); Catalan rights for The Distant Hours and The Forgotten Garden (both...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Nancy Wake, author and decorated World War II French resistance fighter, has died in London aged 98. Wake wrote The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse (1985) and...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced an overhaul of the way it funds Australian publishers. The board has developed a new funding system based...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Jenni Overend, author of children's books and poetry, has died aged 55. Her first book, Princess Grandma (1994) won the Australian Multicultural Book of the Year Award. Her other books...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Bec Kavanagh reviews The Bridge (Jane Higgins, Text), Sarina Gale reviews Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice (Stuart Littlemore, HarperCollins) and Andrea Hanke reviews the audiobook...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Dee Murch, New Zealand book designer and editor, has died aged 39. Murch worked in both a permanent and freelance capacity for New Holland Publishers for over seven years; was a...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Festival goers were treated to three sunny and warm days at this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF), held between 5 and 7 August. On the opening night of the...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society. Shortlisted poems include: 'Via Negativa The Divine Dark' by Robert...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
'There is no right to profit from speech--not all books or newspapers find markets and audiences--but without a right to try to profit, the liberty to speak is severely crippled....

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Collins Booksellers held its national conference in Byron Bay between 7 and 9 August, with approximately 60 members of the Collins group in attendance.   Collins Booksellers Griffith, NSW, was presented...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Now You See Her (Century), James Patterson's latest action thriller about a woman who has rebuilt her life after her perfect existence is shattered--only to have to go back to...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Les Kennedy, Sydney journalist and co-author of Sins of the Brother: The Definitive Story of Ivan Milat and the Backpacker Murders (1998) and Granny Killer: The Story of John Glover...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The September issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 27 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles. Also in the issue, Kate Stephenson looks at the book trade's job stats, Eloise Keating...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK government backs major copyright reviewUS publisher revenues grow by 3.1%, led by ebooksUK...

Monday, 8 August 2011
As reported by Booksellers NZ, the finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award have been announced. The finalists are: Hidden Country: Having faith in Aotearoa New Zealand (John...

Monday, 8 August 2011
The shortlists for this year's Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: NonfictionSydney (Delia Falconer, NewSouth)A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hancock (Jim...

Wednesday, 3 August 2011
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas has announced the appointment of Michael Williams as director, replacing Chrissy Sharp. Sharp, who was appointed the director following the centre's establishment...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
The shortlists for this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing have been announced.The shortlisted titles are:Best First FictionPrime Cut (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)Line of Sight (David Whish-Wilson, Viking)  The...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on 27 July, REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson will hold a 'watershed' creditors' meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, on 4 August to...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
'To some extent, we still have to rely on there being enough good will from customers who will take the effort to support the local book business ... But we...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Pan Macmillan has announced that will now accept electronic manuscript submissions between 10am and 4pm each Monday as part of its manuscript submission process. As part of the initiative, known...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
The shortlist for this year's John Button Prize for writing on public policy has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Macmillan leaves many African countriesAmazon sales up 51%; 950,000 titles on KindleWorld Book Night...