Tuesday, 25 January 2011
The first recipients of funding from Creative New Zealand's Translation Grant Scheme have been announced. Norwegian publishing house Cappelen Damm will receive funds to translate Joy Cowley's children's book Friends:...

Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Secrets to the Grave (Tami Hoag, Hachette), the second book in the ‘Deeper than the Dead' crime fiction series, tops the highest new entries chart followed by forensic thriller You Belong...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma 2011 Literature & Spoken Word, Melbourne: 16 January - 6 February Galle Literary Festival,...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Jenny Macmillan has finished in her role as publicity manager for Hardie Grant Books. A spokesperson for Hardie Grant told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Macmillan resigned from the company...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago in Kim Edwards' novel The Lake of...

Monday, 24 January 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011
January Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required) Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast.Immodesty Blaize, Random House (Ambition) Sydney and Melbourne.Alison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky) South Coast NSW and...

Monday, 24 January 2011
Ice Water Press has announced that Janet Rowe will join the company in the role of publisher at the end of the month. Rowe, who is currently publisher at The...

Monday, 24 January 2011
British photojournalist and Walkley award winner, Penny Tweedie, has died aged 70. Tweedie produced the 1998 book, Spirit of Arnhem Land, in which she captured the lives of Aboriginal Australians...

Monday, 24 January 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's Indie Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction:Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe)Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe)When Colts Ran (Roger McDonald, Random...

Monday, 24 January 2011
WAYRBA reading lists released  The reading lists for this year's West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) have been released. The lists for the younger readers, older readers and picture...

Sunday, 23 January 2011
Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings launched an ebookstore this week, becoming the first independent bookseller in the country to offer locally published ebooks. The Readings ebookstore utilises the 'in the cloud'...

Sunday, 23 January 2011
NewSouth Books announced last week that a selected number of NewSouth Publishing titles are now available through the Apple iBookstore. Director of NewSouth Books Nella Soeterboek told the Weekly Book...

Sunday, 23 January 2011
The guest list and daily program for this year's Writers at the Convent event have been released. The 2011 event, which will be held at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
SalesFiction--Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Polish rights in Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text) to Bellona. Send your rights news to bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au.

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Today is the last day to contribute to the Weekly Book Newsletter's annual Post-Christmas Survey. Booksellers, you can complete the survey online here. Publishers can complete the survey here. The...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Jane Curry, owner of Jane Curry Publishing (JCP), has started in a new role as managing director of Global Publishing and Quarto Marketing Australia. Curry, who has been running JCP...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Please note that due to the Australia Day public holiday next Wednesday 26 January, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 27 January. The deadline for classifieds and...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Inside the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher, Peter Lyster, owner of The Pitstop Bookshop in Perth, tells us how he built up his specialist bookshop from its basement beginnings in 1995...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US ebook sales up 130% as paperback sales fallXmas 2010 sees 'global chill sweep...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Awakened (P C Cast & Kristin Cast, Hachette) tops both the bestsellers chart and highest new entries chart this week, with the eighth book in the ‘House of Night’ series...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
'If your bookshop has any genuine belief in its cultural role it will be making available exactly those books from abroad you read about in various international forums in a...

Monday, 17 January 2011
Alan Frost gives his account of the beginnings of modern Australia in Botany Bay (Black Inc.). Frost goes beyond the conventional story of Australia as a dumping ground for Britain's...