Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. The Children’s/Youth Literature Award, worth $1000, was presented to I’ll Tell You Mine by Pip...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its seventh Indigenous Literacy Day today and is aiming to raise up to $200,000 for Indigenous literacy. A number of booksellers and publishers...

Tuesday, 3 September 2013
A number of authors are in the running for Cosmopolitan magazine’s annual Fun Fearless Female poll. Nominated in the Author category are: Hannah Kent (Burial Rites, Picador) Romy Ash (Floundering,...

Monday, 2 September 2013
A re-elected Federal Labor Government will invest $12 million over three years in a national university publishing consortium, called Australian Universities Press (AUP). Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research,...

Monday, 2 September 2013
Campus bookseller the Co-op has acquired library supply business DA Information Services and its trade distribution arm Central Book Services (CBS). The businesses, which operated under parent company The Information...

Monday, 2 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime and mystery books written by Australian women, have been announced. The winning titles in each of...

Monday, 2 September 2013
Following the success of The 13-Storey Treehouse and The 26-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have created The 39-Storey Treehouse (all Pan), which features 13 new levels, including a chocolate waterfall,...

Monday, 2 September 2013
Australian author Amy Espeseth and Australia-based UK academic Cordelia Fine have been shortlisted for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing. The shortlist was announced at a ceremony at the Melbourne Writers...