Friday, 4 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction (English language) in Canada. Catton, who was born in Canada, is shortlisted for...

Friday, 4 October 2013
Hachette Australia has appointed Sean Cotcher to the new role of head of field sales following the company’s recently announced restructure. Cotcher has seven years’ experience as national account manager...

Friday, 4 October 2013
Miles Hitchcock has won the inaugural Curtin University Prize for Fiction, administered by writingWA. Hitchcock, who lives in the Western Australian town of Barragup, near Mandurah, won the award for...

Wednesday, 2 October 2013
A new online retailer selling books, CDs, vinyl, DVDs and Blu-ray has launched in Australia, and will donate the ‘GST equivalent’ of its sales to Australian literacy charities. OOdals.com.au is...

Wednesday, 2 October 2013
‘It’s a cornucopia of riches’—Dymocks buying manager Sophie Higgins reflects on publishers’ Christmas releases in an article in the Age. Higgins, Readings’ Mark Rubbo and Booktopia’s John Purcell offer their...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched an app for this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. The Australia@FBF app, which was created by the APA’s IT administrator Margaret Sarlej, is available...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
The Whitireia Creative Writing Programme in New Zealand has launched a publishing imprint. Escalator Press will publish work by new and established writers associated with the program, which is run...

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...