Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Chris Currie has left his role as buyer at Brisbane’s Avid Reader to live in Germany for a year, where he will research and write a novel. Currie said he...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Author Marjorie Bligh has died, aged 96. Text Publishing editor David Winter writes: ‘Bligh was a homemaker extraordinaire and an inspiration to Dame Edna Everage. Her fans included Kaz Cooke,...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
A number of Australian authors have been longlisted for the 2014 UK Literacy Association (UKLA) Book Awards. The longlisted titles by Australian authors in each category are: Seven to 11 years...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Australian author M L Stedman has won the UK Historical Writers’ Association (HWA)/Goldsboro Crown for Historical Debut Fiction for The Light between Oceans (Vintage). Stedman was announced as the winner...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) are in first and second place, respectively, on the bestsellers chart for the second...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Australian author Michelle de Kretser has been announced as a judge for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Other judges for the prize are UK-based Zimbabwean book critic and editor...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Hachette Australia has announced a restructure of its business to form a ‘single retailer-facing sales and product division and a single consumer-facing marketing and publicity division’. Hachette Australia chief executive officer...

Monday, 30 September 2013
Kate Cubitt has been appointed as the new managing director at Bloomsbury Australia. Cubitt most recently held the position of sales director at Simon & Schuster Australia. She will join Bloomsbury...

Friday, 27 September 2013
A number of publishers and writers have received funding in the latest round of the Creative Industries Career Fund, administered by the Copyright Agency (CAL). Random House associate publisher of...

Thursday, 26 September 2013
Kobo has appointed Stephanie Ogden as managing director of Kobo Asia-Pacific and South Africa, which includes responsibility for the Australian and New Zealand markets. Ogden, who has 19 years’ experience...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
A new prize for first-time US and Canadian biographers has been named in memory of Australian writer Hazel Rowley. The BIO Rowley Prize is administered by Biographers International Organisation (BIO), of which Rowley...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Former director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) Wendy Were and former director of the New Zealand International Arts Festival Lissa Twomey have been appointed as executive directors of the...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Random House Australia has acquired global publishing rights to the memoir of former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Penguin Random House chief executive Gabrielle Coyne said in a statement that...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Novelist Christopher Koch has died, aged 81. Koch was the author of numerous novels, including The Year of Living Dangerously, The Doubleman, Highways to a War, Out of Ireland (all...

Wednesday, 25 September 2013
‘There is still work to be done to make literary editors and beyond more aware of their unconscious biases and to raise awareness of the disparity in the gender of...