Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The winners of this year's Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards were announced last week in Adelaide as part of the annual Tasting Australia festival.Among the winners of ‘gold...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has announced it will increase the number of communities to receive literacy materials due to a higher than expected fundraising total from Indigenous Literacy Day...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The shortlist of titles in the running for this year's Westfied/Waverly Library Award for Literature has been announced. The shortlisted works are:Mr Stuart's Track: The Forgotton Life of Australia's Greatest Explorer (John...

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The children's television series based on Animalia (Graeme Base, Puffin) will air on Channel 10 on Sunday November 11 at midday. Described by producer Ewan Burnett as 'the most ambitious...

Wednesday, 17 October 2007
'Can you imagine the scene? [I'm with] my Swedish publisher at a very, very formal dinner ... an official, he said, "I've come to tell you you will never win...

Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:EU clears Egmont/Bonnier dealOliveri resigns from Wiley/BlackwellGerman president attacked at book awardUK postal strike fails to dent...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Random House Australia has announced the appointment of former UQP publisher Leonie Tyle as publisher of an as yet unnamed new children's imprint. Linsay Knight, head of children's books at...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The Gathering by Irish author Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, beating New Zealand hope Lloyd Jones whose Mister Pip (Text) was the shortlist favourite....

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The Federal Government has announced that the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme will receive ‘ongoing funding'.The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has welcomed the move, saying it will ensure that...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Walker Books has reported strong results for 2006, with turnover up 11% to £53 million (A$116 million) and pre-tax profits up ‘slightly' on last year to £2.9 million (A$6.3 million)....

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Author, playwright and television writer Steve J Spears has died in Adelaide. Spears' books included Mr Edmund, Big Wish and Froggie. He was 56.  

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Australian author Marcus Zusak has picked up another prize: his YA novel The Messenger (Picador) has been named as the winner of the Youth Jury Prize in Germany's Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.The...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
German prize for de KretserThe LiBeraturpreis 2007 Prize has been awarded to Michelle de Kretser for her novel The Hamilton Case (Vintage). The author of three novels, de Kretser also worked...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
The bestsellers are quite the mixed bag this mid-October week. Thriller Double Cross by James Patterson makes it to number one, followed by Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney. What...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:New Zealand Library Week 15 - 21 OctoberWalkley Award finalists announced 17 OctoberAustralian Copyright Council training...

Sunday, 14 October 2007
As this year's Frankfurt Book Fair wrapped up last Sunday, Australian attendees and the fair's organisers expressed strong satisfaction with how it has gone.'I walked around Hall 8 [the English-language hall] yesterday...

Thursday, 11 October 2007
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were announced last week in Sweden. This year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature is British writer Doris Lessing, at 87 the oldest person to...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Among stores added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Lawyers want biggest share of a million little refundsThomas new head of MacmillanBBC defends Lonely Planet dealWhitcoulls' purchase...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
'This type of deal is exactly what is needed in today’s market.'--Collins Booksellers CEO Peter Lothian announcing the acquisition of Book City.

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
This year's Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest booktrade event, is now underway. Tuesday, the day before the fair's official opening, saw the 21st International Rights Directors Meeting and the 29th International Supply Chain Specialists...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards and Fellowship winners were announced by the NSW Minister for the Arts, Frank Sartor, in Sydney last night.The annual awards were instituted in 1997...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair 10 - 14 OctoberCAL's Publishers' Career Development grants deadline 12 OctoberRedact Workshop...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Guinness World Records 2008 remains atop the charts for two weeks in a row: it seems people just can't get enough of those jaw-dropping feats. In second position, it looks...

Tuesday, 9 October 2007
The recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced later this week, and while there isn't a formal shortlist Australian poet Les Murray is widely tipped as...