Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Bangkok International Book Fair, which runs from 28 March to 10 April; the annual Colin...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Harry Potter sets another recordRandom audio 'widget'OJ book may yet see the light of dayFor full details,...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Salon du Livre in Paris, which runs from 23-27 March; the NSW Writers' Centre's...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
It's not often that a self-help title makes it into the top 10 bestsellers list, so this week we thought we'd take a closer look at Rhonda Byrne's The Secret....

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Quarto, the London-based parent company of Australian book packager Global Book Publishing, has published its earnings for 2006, reporting a drop in total revenue of one percent to £93.6 million...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
The Fremantle Arts Centre Press (FACP) is to receive a once-off grant and loan from the Western Australian state government ?to ensure the future viability' of the press. ?The Government's...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Jenni Caffin, director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival, has announced some of the guests confirmed to appear at this year's festival, which runs from 26 to 29 July. Among...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
The Five Mile Press writes: ‘It is with great sadness that David Horgan and The Five Mile Press report the passing of Brian Mitchell on Saturday 17 March. Brian was...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
The Venezuelan non-profit institution Banco del Libro is the winner of this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award--the world's largest prize for children's and young people's literature worth five million Swedish...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Australian authors M J Hyland (pictured) and Deborah Robertson have been named on the longlist for this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.Hyland's Carry Me down (Text) and Roberston's Careless...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Anne Hunt, an assistant professor at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the rector of its Ballarat Campus, has won this year's Australian Theological Forum (ATF) book prize for Trinity:...

Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been announced as the recipient of the £800,000 (A$1.85 million) 2007 Templeton Prize.Known for his 45 years of philosophical work on trying to reconcile science...

Wednesday, 14 March 2007
The eight novels selected for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 Longlist were announced last week. They are:Beyond the Break (Sandra Hall, Fourth Estate)Careless (Deborah Robertson, Picador)Carpentaria (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)Dreams...

Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Mister Pip by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones (Text) has won the best book award in the South East Asia and South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Tuvalu by Australian...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
For scandals, both fictional and otherwise, look no further than this week's top 10. Topping the charts is An Absolute Scandal, the latest page-turner from Penny Vincenzi, which follows the...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US bookstore sales drop againWaterstone's to close up to 30 storesUS critics name their favouritesOrange Prize renamed,...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: two awards announcements--the Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional winners and the Miles Franklin longlist--on 15 March;...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
French philosopher and postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard has died at the age of 77. A fierce critic of modern consumer culture, Baudrillard published more than 30 books expounding his theories...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its fourth year, has announced some of the guests who will be attending the 2007 festival, to be held in Bali from...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), has announced a number of the authors who will be attending this year's festival. German novelist Juli Zeh (Eagles and Angels,...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Reporting its full-year results, Hachette Livre's parent company Lagardere said its ‘books segment enjoyed a year of solid growth,' raising sales by 20% overall in 2006, from €1.64 billion (A$2.6...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Jane Palfreyman, former executive publisher at Random House, has signed four titles since beginning in her new position of publisher at Allen & Unwin on 20 February--all of them by...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Faye Sutherland, manager of the Co-op Bookshop at Macquarie University, has been awarded this year's Unwin Trust Fellowship. Sutherland, who is the first academic bookseller to be awarded the fellowship, will...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Miles Franklin Award has announced an expanded regional author tour program, thanks to sponsorship from CAL.Building on a successful tour of regional NSW and Victoria by last year's winner...