Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Australian animation company Resin has created an app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet (Adam Stower) into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’. The app, which...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Ian Moir, former co-owner of Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove, Sydney, has died, aged 79. Peribo owner Eddie Coffey writes: ‘I first met Ian in the early 1970s when he...

Monday, 9 September 2013
The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing were announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) on 7 September. The award for best fiction was presented to Blackwattle...

Monday, 9 September 2013
In first place on the bestsellers chart and the fastest movers chart this week is the action-thriller Never Go Back (Lee Child, Bantam), which sees Jack Reacher returning to the headquarters...

Monday, 9 September 2013
Ian Moir, former co-owner of Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove, Sydney, has died, aged 79. Family and friends are invited to attend a celebration of his life to be held...

Friday, 6 September 2013
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired over 200 natural history titles from New Holland Publishers, which it plans to integrate into its own natural history list. The New Holland titles acquired by...

Friday, 6 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers’ Awards for nonfiction have been announced. Geoff Chapple will receive one of the $35,000 prizes for his nonfiction book project ‘Terrain:...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
New Zealand educational publisher Learning Media will close within coming months. The board of Learning Media said in a statement on 4 September that the government-owned company will be ‘wound...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
The guest line-up for the first Body in the Garden festival in Adelaide, South Australia, has been announced. The festival, which is for writers of crime and garden books, will...