Friday, 13 March 2015
British fantasy fiction author Sir Terry Pratchett has died, aged 66. Pratchett was the author of over 70 books, with total sales of 75 million internationally, including YA novel Nation and...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
The inaugural Queenscliffe Literary Festival will be held across five weekends in May in the Victorian beachside towns of Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale.The not-for-profit festival is being organised by Bookshop at Queenscliff...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Pan Macmillan Australia will publish a sequel to Gregory David Roberts’ novel Shantaram in October under its Picador imprint.The Mountain Shadow is set two years after the events in Shantaram...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
New Zealand arts development agency Creative New Zealand (CNZ) has released its final ‘Review of Literature’ report into support for New Zealand literature, reports Booksellers NZ.In the report’s key findings, CNZ has...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Pan Macmillan has delayed publication of a Paleo diet baby cookbook co-written by Pete Evans amid concerns that some of the recipes pose health risks for babies.Bubba Yum Yum: The...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Penguin Australia is considering its options regarding its commercial relationship with cookbook author Belle Gibson following questions raised in the media about the veracity of her medical history.Earlier this week...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) The Invisible History of...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Gordon Peake’s Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles and Secrets from Timor-Leste (Scribe) has won the 2014 ACT Book of the Year Award.Peake’s book, which explores nation-building in Timor-Leste following its independence...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Big international fiction releases are dominating the bestsellers chart, with three new titles making it into the top 10 in their first week. While American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle,...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Thomas Keneally is the recipient of the 2015 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.The award, formerly known as the Writers’ Emeritus Award, recognises ‘the achievements of eminent literary...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Kylie Scott was named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the second year in a row at the 2014 Australian Romance Readers Awards in Canberra on 7 March.Scott also won awards for...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
New Zealand publishing house Craig Potton Publishing has changed its name to Potton & Burton to ‘reflect the increasingly diverse range of New Zealand books’ it publishes.Robbie Burton, co-owner and...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
An IbisWorld report has projected that bricks-and-mortar bookstores will record an average annual revenue decline of 8.3% in the five years from 2009-10 to 2014-15, according to Inside Retail.The same report projects a 5.9%...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
writingWA has released two tablet apps based on illustrated stories by Indigenous writers, as part of its Project 360 initiative.Mamang is based on the picture book of the same name by...