Tuesday, 14 November 2006
British author Lucilla Andrews, best known for her ‘hospital fiction' romances (also published under the pseudonyms Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus), has died of lung cancer at the age of...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Ernestine Carey, co-author of the bestselling memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (various imprints), among other books, has died at the age of 98.

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been included in the 138-title longlist for the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Geraldine Brooks (March, HarperCollins), Brian Castro (The...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
The Macquarie Dictionary and Macquarie Library, the Macmillan-owned company that publishes it, have left Macquarie University after more than 25 years and moved to the University of Sydney.According to recent...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
French literary festival Les Belles Étrangères is focusing on New Zealand this year. The 2006 festival, which runs from 13 to 26 November, will include the participation of 12 New...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Juggling Truths by Unity Dow (Spinifex) has been named runner-up in South Africa's Percy FitzPatrick Award.‘This is the fourth international award our authors have had in the last six months,'...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Morris Lurie has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Patrick White Award.The award, which is worth $25,000, is presented each year to a writer whose work the award...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
The finalists for this year’s Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book were announced last week. The three finalists are Neil Chenoweth for Packer’s Lunch (Allen & Unwin), Tim Flannery for...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Carrie Tiffany's Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Picador) is one of five books in the running for the UK's Guardian First Book Award.The award, worth £10,000 (A$24,000) was established in...

Tuesday, 14 November 2006
In the US, Tim Flannery has just been announced as the winner of the 2006 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, in recognition of his ‘significant contributions to English-language literature.'For more...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Jeni Caffin has been appointed as the new director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. Caffin, who has been publicist for the festvial for the past two years and was...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
In news from our Around the World blog this week Martina Cole helps the UK market to its biggest week this year; reports O J Simpson is set to publish...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Warren Stokes, owner of Spectrum Bookshop, said he was ‘very, very happy' with the deal that would see his business acquired by Campion Education. ‘I've worked here for 27 years...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Following last week's report that the Thomson Corporation, US-based parent company of Thomson Learning, had arranged to sell NETg, the corporate education and training arm of its Thomson Learning division,...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Jane Palfreyman has resigned from her position of executive publisher at Random House, effective 17 November. Palfreyman, who has held various senior publishing roles at the company over the past...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Following the recent removal of the five-cent piece from New Zealand currency, Booksellers New Zealand has raised the concern of its members regarding five-cent price-points with magazine distributors Gordon & Gotch,...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade organisation for digital publishing formerly known as Open eBook Forum, has announced the release of a new technical standard ‘to...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
A selection of Patrick White's personal papers was put on display by the National Library of Australia on Saturday, following the library's acquisition of 33 boxes of material through the...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Several writing workshops and festivals are among the 92 projects to have been granted funding approval by the federal government program Regional Arts Australia in the latest round of funding....

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
The inaugural EDS Dylan Thomas Prize has been awarded to Welsh author Rachel Trezise for her collection of short stories Fresh Apples (Parthian Books). The prize, worth £60,000 (A$140,000) is...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Cat, an unpublished manuscript written by Mike Dumbleton and illustrated by Craig Smith, has been selected from over 60 entries to be developed as a picture book, theatrical production and...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include a Jeffrey Archer author signing at the Angus & Robertson bookstore in Burke Street, Melbourne on...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Not since The Latham Diaries has one book attracted so much attention among the nation's political commentators. Now the sales figures are in and it turns out Jonestown: The Power...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
The 2006 Books Alive campaign has been hailed a success by its organisers, with the 50 featured books selling over 15% more copies than the 2005 selection, and market research...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
American author William Styron has died at the age of 81. Styron was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner (Vintage), but was best known...

Tuesday, 7 November 2006
Statistics provided to WBN by internet ranking company Hitwise have demonstrated the absolute dominance of Amazon as the Australian public's preferred source of book information online.In a typical week in...

Tuesday, 31 October 2006
The Thomson Corporation, the US-based parent company of Thomson Learning, which has operations in 39 countries, including Australia, has announced it will sell the Thomson Learning group in ‘three independent...