Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Books Alive has issued a reminder to booksellers and libraries that orders and marketing initiative submissions close soon.All book orders and marketing initiative submissions must reach Books Alive by Friday 27...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Allen & Unwin writes: we recently received the sad news that Faber author Michael Dibdin died in Seattle on Friday 30 March after a short illness. He was a much-loved...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the announcement of this year's Man Booker International Prize contenders in Canada on 12 April;...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
The top 10 gets a big dose of popular fiction this week from some of the genre's biggest names. Wilbur Smith revisits the action of ancient Egypt in The Quest,...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
New Holland publishers and the NSW Writers Centre have announced the creation of a new ‘genre fiction award' open to all published and unpublished writers resident in Australia who are...

Tuesday, 10 April 2007
The Ovation channel, a subscription arts and entertainment channel that is carried on Foxtel, Austar, OptusTV and SelecTV, is planning to develop a monthly half-hour long television book program. While...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Random House has announced the appointment of Nikki Christer, former Picador publisher at Pan Macmillan, to the newly created position of deputy publishing director. The announcement follows the departure of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Bloomsbury Publishing has released the cover illustrations and blurb for the final installment of the Harry Potter series. As with previous titles in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Nicholas Shakespeare In Australia (Vintage), a tale of his Tasmanian ancestry, has won the inaugural Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content. The $25,000 award was presented in Hobart...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
There's nothing like a popular movie or TV show to shift copies of the tie-in title, as this week's bestselling titles--Rhonda Byrne's guide to a better life in The Secret...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Among stories added to our Around the World blog this week:Richard Branson speculated as potential buyer for Borders UKScottish Publishers Association undergoes changesFor more details, click here.

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the creation of a new award for Australian fiction, made possible by a $1 million bequest by the late film critic John...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
AsiaLink has announced that its Literature Touring Program, which has supported leading Australian writers to tour in Asia over the past nine years, will finish in June. The announcement comes...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, has announced that the festival will move from its long-standing venue at the Malthouse to Federation Square from 2008. Cameron said the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Big Book Club, a not-for-profit arts-based association that began in South Australia in 2003, has launched in Queensland. ‘We made the decision in 2005 to look at our strategic...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Those planning on attending this year's Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual conference in June have only one day to take advantage of the ABA's early-bird registration offer, before it closes tomorrow,...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Poet Libby Hart has been awarded this year's Anne Elder Award for her book of poems Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Publications). The prize, established in 1976 and worth...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The winners of this year's Galaxy British Book Awards, the ‘Oscars of the book trade', have been announced. The Dangerous Book for Boys (Conn and Hal Iggulden, HarperCollins) was named...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Canberra-based author Margaret Innes, also known as the crime writer Alex Palmer, is the winner of the inaugural Meanjin/Readings Novella Award presented at the launch of Meanjin's first 2007 issue...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Poet Robert Adamson has won his second Grace Leven Prize for The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions). The award, Australia's oldest annual poetry prize, is worth only $200--funded by the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Publisher and creator of Aduki magazine Emily Clark has announced the launch of Aduki Independent Press, which will publish a range of nonfiction books and essays in addition to the...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami, Random House) has won the fiction section of this year's Kiriyama Prize with Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ......

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The shortlist of titles in the running for the CAN$100,000 (A$101,000) Griffin Poetry Prize were announced yesterday. Finalists in the Canadian shortlist were: Airstream Land Yacht (Ken Babstock, House of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The Australian Publishers Association held its annual general meeting in Melbourne on Tuesday last week at the Camberwell offices of Penguin Books Australia.In her address, president Juliet Rogers of Murdoch Books...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Millennium House writes: ‘It is with the saddest of hearts that Gordon Cheers advises that Margaret Olds, after having spent many weeks in hospital, has passed away after a prolonged...

Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Margrete Lamond, publisher at Little Hare Books, writes: ‘It is with great sadness that Little Hare Books joins John Winch's family, the children's book world and the wider artist community...

Monday, 2 April 2007
The 17th Abu Dhabi Book Fair is in full swing this week, with over 400 exhibitors from 46 countries displaying their wares in a vast, brand-new exhibition hall.This fair marks...

Sunday, 1 April 2007
Further to the majority shareholding it took in April 2004 (see WBN 21 April 2004), Bonnier Publishing UK (previously known as Autumn Publishing) has completed its acquisition of Melbourne mass market publisher...