Monday, 24 July 2006
The future of the Ned Kelly awards, Australia's awards for crime writing, has been assisted with a sponsorship plan supported by a number of publishers.The awards, known colloquially as ‘the...

Monday, 24 July 2006
Jillan Ewart of Booksellers NZ reports:‘The Sky's the Limit' was the theme for the Booksellers New Zealand conference held on 23 and 24 July in Auckland.The reference was to the...

Monday, 24 July 2006
Maurice Gee's novel Blindsight (Penguin) has been announced as the winner of the Deutz Medal, the top prize of the annual Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Blindsight also won the...

Monday, 24 July 2006
New Zealand's book trade awards were presented as part of the Booksellers NZ annual conference. The awards are all sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker.Bookseller AwardsIndependent Bookshop of the Year: Unity Books, Wellington...

Monday, 24 July 2006
The winner of the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers Choice Award for 2006 is He'll be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men (Celia Lashlie, HarperCollins NZ).

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Want know what's happening in book markets around the world? It's now only a click away.Our new service includes an online overseas news 'blog,' Around the World. You can access...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
It's been a big week for pirates and boy wizards. Harry Potter has topped the bestseller charts once again with the release of the paperback edition of his penultimate adventure...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
John Ritchie, history professor, author and one of the longest serving editors of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (MUP), has died in Canberra, aged 65. Other publications include the popular...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Chinese language teacher and author Tsai-Hsien Chang has died in Melbourne, aged 86. Chang was the author of several English and Chinese language publications, including an abbreviated Chinese translation of...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
In overseas news this week, Borders has confirmed that former Saks department store executive George Jones is the company's new CEO; publisher reactions to UK bookseller Waterstone's takeover of the...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Joy Damousi, author of Freud in the Antipodes: The Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press) is the winner of the 2006 Ernest Scott Prize. The prize, which is...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
With Children's Book Week approaching rapidly (19 to 25 August), the New South Wales branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced a number of Book Week author...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Film Victoria confirmed last week that a feature film based on Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are (Random House) will be made in Melbourne. The Warner Bros....

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
The 13th Tokyo International Book Fair wrapped up on Sunday 9 July after four busy days. The Fair attracted a record number of attendees: almost 50,000 including publishing professionals, librarians,...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Hard-boiled crime writer Mickey Spillane, the creator of legendary private eye Mike Hammer, has died aged 88.Spillane's first Mike Hammer book, I, the Jury (in The Mike Hammer Omnibus vol...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
South African author Mary Watson has won this year's £10,000 (A$23,300) Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Jungfrau'.The Caine Prize is often referred to as ‘the African...

Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh have been granted leave to appeal the breach of copyright case they lost against Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and publisher Random House...