Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The third book in the 'Fallen' series, Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), has risen to the top of the bestsellers chart, in first place, and has maintained the top position on...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Australian author Tim Flannery has been longlisted for the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Flannery's Here on Earth: An argument for hope (Text) is one of 13 titles...

Monday, 27 June 2011
The shortlists for this year's Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the best designed cover category are:Eep! (Joke can Leeuwen,...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the best artist category in the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation in the US....

Monday, 27 June 2011
New name for ABR poetry prize The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its Poetry Prize has been renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in memory of the late Australian...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards Closing: 30 June 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, winners announced this week:...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Melanie Joosten's Berlin Syndrome (Scribe), Malcolm Knox's The Life (A&U) and Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (Picador) received equal mentions this week. Kim Scott is the winner of this year's...

Monday, 27 June 2011
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Monday, 27 June 2011
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Monday, 27 June 2011
Sabina Wolanski, Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Destined to Live (HarperCollins), has died aged 84. Amruta Slee, associate publisher at HarperCollins, writes:'Long before she was an author, Sabina...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Canadian novelist and poet Robert Kroetsch has died, aged 83.Kroetsch wrote 14 poetry collections, seven non-fiction works and nine books of fiction including the novel The Studhorse Man (The University of Alberta...

Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), the third book in the 'Fallen' series and the latest installment in the love story of mortal Lucinda and fallen angel Daniel, is top of the fastest movers chart followed by...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
The shortlists for the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:NonfictionA Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hanock (Jim Davidson, UNSW Press)Breaking News: The...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Walker Books Australia has announced that it has acquired the Black Dog Books imprint. Effective 1 July, Black Dog Books will be an imprint of Walker Books with current Black Dog...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK agents' association defends agents-as-publisherssales up at B&N but US$74 million loss overallBorders US...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Five children's book creators have joined together to form Literature Live!, an organisation which provides virtual creative writing and illustration workshops to Australian schools through video conferencing and interactive whiteboards....

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Jarrah Moore interviews Jennifer Rowe aka Emily Rodda on Love, Honour and O’Brien (A&U) and Meredith Tate reviews Mole Hunt: The Maximus Black Files (Paul...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
'Considering how long I've been at it, there's really only a handful of covers that I'm one hundred percent happy with'--find out which covers they were and why, in our...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
‘The comment left independent booksellers reeling not from the visionary, crystalline truth of the utterance, but by the sheer lack of forethought and understanding behind the words'--Sally Pryor in the...

Monday, 20 June 2011
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2011 Creative Fellowships. The $20,000 Redmond Barry Fellowship has been awarded to Jim Davidson. Davidson will use the...

Monday, 20 June 2011
Miles Franklin winner announced tonightThe winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced at an awards ceremony at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne tonight. As...

Monday, 20 June 2011
The shortlist for this year's Australian Christian Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Bible bites: 365 devotions for Aussie families (Ladeane Lindsay, Anglican Youthworks)Christianity alongside...

Monday, 20 June 2011
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include:The Noosa Longweekend Festival: 17-26 June 6th Children's and Young Adult Literature Festival: 25 June18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards Closing: 30...

Monday, 20 June 2011
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature (Jeff VanderMeer & S J Chambers, Thames & Hudson) details...

Monday, 20 June 2011
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