Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Stephanie Alexander OAM, author of bestselling cookbook Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion (Lantern), has been named Victorian of the Year. The award was presented in recognition of her work with...

Monday, 5 July 2010
The Sydney Writers Festival (SWF) chair Sandra Yates has announced that Wendy Were will not be returning to the festival after her extended maternity leave. Were, who was artisitic director of...

Wednesday, 30 June 2010
'How would the publishing industry change of agents switched from commission-based payment to billable hours? How would the publishing industry change if ALL publishers went to a no-advance model?' --These...

Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Australia’s obsession with weight loss still translates into sales at the register, as seen by the latest diet book to hit the shelves is The Dukan Diet (Pierre Dukan, Hachette),...

Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week Matt Oliver reviews Annabel Crabb’s Rise of the Ruddbot (Black Inc.); Scott Whitmont chats to Boyd Anderson about his forthcoming book Errol, Fidel...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
A short film produced by the New Zealand Book Council to promote books and reading has won two awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.The paper-cut animation, which uses...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Mexican writer Carlos Monsiváis has died aged 72. Monsiváis' best-known works include Dias de guardar and Escenas de pudor y liviandad (Frivolity and Shame Scenes).

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Norman Macrae CBE, writer and editor for the Economist, has died aged 86. He wrote The 2024 Report: A Future History of the Next 40 Years, predicting converged technologies in...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
HarperCollins, Hardie Grant become RHYW publisher partnersReadHowYouWant (RHYW), which produces special formats of books such as DAISY and large print, has announced that HarperCollins Australia and Hardie Grant have joined...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Russian book fair ends in fistfightsAre children's publishers destroying rainforests? Cussler reignites 'Sahara' litigationUK: climate...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Afghan-born Pakistani journalist and writer Fatima Bhutto has pulled out of the Byron Bay Writers Festival, where she was due to appear as the keynote speaker.‘Fatima Bhutto has withdrawn from...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
JulyAyaan Hirsi Ali, HarperCollins (Nomad: A Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations) Blanche d’Alpuget, MUP (Robert J. Hawke)Duncan Lay, HarperCollins (The Radiant Child)Kylie Kwong, Penguin (It Tastes Better: Over...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
As expected, author Peter Temple had a great week of media coverage following his Miles Franklin win for Truth (Text). Sebastian Junger’s War (HarperCollins) and Michael Koryta’s So Cold the...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Online Retailer Expo & Conference: 6-9 July2010 Redmond Barry Lecture: 7 JulyABA Conference: 10-13 JulyTo view...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Penguin has appointed Dan Ruffino as group digital director in charge of Penguin’s global digital strategy, based in New York. Ruffino will report to Penguin chairman and CEO John Makinson in...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced some of its line-up this year. Confirmed authors include Anne Enright, William Dalrymple, Ma Jian, Kate Adie and Dewi Lestari, alongside a healthy Australian...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Comedian and author Anh Do announced Angus & Robertson Top 100 at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre last night. The Top 100 lists Australia’s favourite books, with 101,655 votes cast from around the country....

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Gleebooks at Dulwich Hill is opening its doors on Thursday 1 July at 5pm, followed by ‘a weekend of literary events with authors including Garth Nix, David Marr, Annabel Crabb,...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood has been announced as the winner of the 2010 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, one of the world's premier awards for illustration.Blackwood won the award for her...

Sunday, 27 June 2010
Simon & Schuster has confirmed that, as part of a 'realignment' of its sales team, four sales positions have been made redundant. S&S Australia managing director Lou Johnson told the...

Wednesday, 23 June 2010
The two-day conference Imagine This! Imagine That! held on 18 and 19 of June in Sydney, by the NSW branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA), attracted 400...

Wednesday, 23 June 2010
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the creation of a new ABR Patrons’ Fellowship program.The publication’s editor Peter Rose told the Weekly Book Newsletter that ABR hoped to offer...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Geoff Walker, publishing director at Penguin New Zealand, has announced he is leaving the position to ‘pursue other opportunities'.A statement from Penguin New Zealand said Walker would leave the company...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The recipients of the 2010 State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships have been announced.The recipients were: Luke Beesley, who is researching a manuscript of poems and drawings based on research...