Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Authors on tour in April and May include: April Nicole Alexander, Random House (The Bark Cutters) Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books, ('Dragonkeeper' and...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The 50-year anniversary of architect Robin Boyd's first publication The Australian Ugliness (Text) has arrived, along with an anniversary edition to commemorate it. Boyd was a fierce critic of Australian...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Nominations close for the Nan Chauncy Award, 31 MarchEntries close for Australian Family Therapists' Award for...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
There’s a storm brewing in South Dakota and also on this weeks bestseller charts as Lee Child’s thriller 61 Hours (Bantam) blasts in to number one ahead of Stieg Larsson's...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Pan Macmillan Australia has added an ebooks page to its website, listing all the publisher's titles available in ebook format. 'We've had these titles available since 2007 but with no...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin yesterday, the shortlist for the 2010 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards has been announced.‘With the nation's...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Thanks to Madman, we have a box of assorted DVDs and manga to give away to some lucky Weekly Book Newsletter subscribers. If you'd like to be in the running...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010
'I'm pretty convinced that it will work, it's just the time it will take everyone to either have the content ready on the publisher side or on the bookseller side...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced a new award to recognise excellence in New Zealand educational publishing. The award will be administered by PANZ and sponsored by...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Dyan Blacklock and Stuart Glover have been appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Blacklock is an author and publisher (at Omnibus Books) and a...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Education Minister Julia Gillard has asked the parliament's House Standing Committee on Education and Training to launch an inquiry into and to report on ‘the role, adequacy and resourcing of...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Among our reviewers' top picks of forthcomg titles reviewed in the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine are: The Second-last Woman in England (Maggie Joel, Pier 9); Sunday's Kitchen: Food and...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Thanks to Text Publishing, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away 10 double passes to The Last Station. The Last Sation is a historical drama about the author Leo Tolstoy (Christopher...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
‘This book is loathsome in its pretence that there is enough material to justify its existence'--former Weekly Book News editor Lorien Kaye isn't shy about saying what she thinks of Susan...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Asialink has announced the recipients of its 2010 residencies. The recipients, the countries they will visit and the projects they will work on are: Kalinda Ashton, Cambodia: At the Nou...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Former owner of Boat Books in Sydney and Brisbane, Meg Field has died after a long battle with cancer. She held the position of Secretary and Treasurer of ABA Queensland...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Award-winning author Sid Fleischman has died aged 90. He won the Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy and published over 60 fiction and nonfiction children’s books.

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Authors on tour in March include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men) Xinran, Random House NZ (Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) NZ only David Finkel, Scribe (The Good...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Campus gunman scare interrupts UWS bookshopThe University Co-op Bookshop at the University of Western Sydney's Kingswood campus was caught up in a drama last week involving an armed man loose...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Bologna Children's Book Fair, 23-26 March Byron Bay Writers Festival Early Bird Tickets on sale 26...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, one of the the most prestigious international awards for children's books, has been given to British author David Almond and German illustrator Jutta Bauer....

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Author Phil Cleary and his publisher Allen & Unwin have lost a defamation case and have been ordered to pay $630,000 in damages. The judgement in the Victorian Supreme Court related...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Ian McEwan's Solar (Jonathan Cape), a 'comedy about climate change', received far and away the most mentions over the past week, but they haven't all been positive. ‘In spite of...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Under the Huang Jiao Tree (Jane Carswell, Transit Lounge) has won this year's Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year. The award, presented at a gala dinner at the Heritage...