Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Christchurch Writers Festival, which was due to take place from 9 to 12 September, has been cancelled due to the Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks.The biennial event had been...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow Australian Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), which had...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Thanks to Murdoch Books and Rialto Distribution, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 20 in-season double passes to give away for the second film in the 'Millennium Trilogy', The Girl Who...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
American editor Larry Ashmead has died, aged 78. He worked for several large publishing houses, such as Doubleday, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, where he edited the books of Susan...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The Brisbane Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday 5 September after five days of events--and some impromptu African drumming--at the State Library of Queensland. Typically, the big names drew the...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
'It would still be a viable business. It would be a different business if I was doing half of what I'm doing now. And I hope to god that in...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Last week's Indigenous Literacy Day was ‘a day to raise major funds for the Indigenous Literacy Project but also marked a dramatic increase in interest in the debate, discussion and...

Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Katniss Everdeen has survived the hunger games twice against all odds, and she’s not safe after making it out of the bloody arena, because the Capitol is angry and wants...

Monday, 6 September 2010
In rights news this week: Fiction--Allen & Unwin has sold The Slap (Christos Tsiolkas) to Italy (Neri Pozza), Germany (Klett-Cotta) and Portugal (ASA Editores); and Serbian rights for The Forgotten...

Monday, 6 September 2010
The winners of the 2010 Hugo Awards for science-fiction were announced at AussieCon 4 on Sunday 5 September. Local author Garth Nix delivered the keynote speech at the awards ceremony...

Monday, 6 September 2010
The Politics of Suffering (Peter Sutton, MUP) is the winner of the 2010 John Button Prize. The prize, now in its second year, is for writing on politics or public...

Monday, 6 September 2010
The shortlist for the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works are: The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction $30,000Parrot and Olivier in America (Peter Carey, Penguin) The...

Monday, 6 September 2010
The winners of the 2010 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing Awards were presented at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday 3 September. Best fiction book went to Garry...

Monday, 6 September 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: reviewer Kate Cuthbert speaks to Kimberley Freeman about her new novel Wildflower Hill (Hachette); Eliza Metcalfe says ‘there's not a word out of...

Monday, 6 September 2010
Dymocks and Murdoch Books partner for design competitionMurdoch Books and Dymocks have announced they are partnering in a cover design competition for Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

Monday, 6 September 2010
Postwar American novelist and writing professor Vance Bourjaily has died, aged 87. His novels included The End of My Life, Confessions of a Spent Youth, The Man Who Knew Kennedy...

Monday, 6 September 2010
UK graphic designer Raymond John Hawkey has died, aged 80. He influenced the evolution of book covers with his designs of Len Deighton's titles including The Ipcress File, Ian Fleming’s...

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
The Australian Publishers Association has advised that the TitlePage Management Group charged with providing business expertise to TitlePage has recommended to the APA Board that 'a stand-alone ebook solution for...

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Magazine publisher Ken McLachlan has died, aged 65. McLachlan became a salesman for McGraw-Hill when he moved to Australia from New Zealand in 1966. He founded Australian Sailing magazine in...

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Should writers pay for book reviews?'The digital era has not made publishers defuct'The OED...

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
‘Online, our undies are hanging out for all to see’--A&U’s Elizabeth Weiss utilised the ‘undies drawer’ metaphor to try to liven up the topic of metadata at this week’s ABA...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The winners of the Thorpe-Bowker 2010 New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced at the Booksellers NZ Conference Dinner in Auckland on Sunday 29 August. The winners were: Independent Bookseller...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Wonky Donkey (Craig Smith & Katz Cowley, Scholastic NZ) was announced as the winner of the annual Nielsen BookData New Zealand Bookseller’s Choice Award for 2010, during the Booksellers NZ...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Allen & Unwin won all awards in the Sisters in Crime Australia’s 10th Davitt Awards for best Australian women’s crime writing, presented by Val McDermid in the Celtic Club as...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Amsterdam on 'Guardian' first book longlist Things We Didn't See Coming by Australian author Steven Amsterdam (Sleepers Publishing) has been longlisted for this year's £10,000 (A$17,000) Guardian first book award in...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Angela Meyer reviews Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), we talk to Toni Jordan about the numerous and varied book covers for her novel Addition...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Thousands of school children, together with hundreds of bookshops and publishers, libraries and organisations around Australia will celebrate the fourth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 1 September 2010. Major events include...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is one of five international literary festivals that have formed The Word Alliance (TWA). TWA was launched by Edinburgh International Book Festival director Nick Barley...