Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Last week’s announcement of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has been met with some concern from the book industry over the lack of representation of...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English language rights to The Scrivener’s Tale (Fiona McIntosh); and Bulgarian translation rights to The Right Hand of God (Russell Kirkpatrick). Spinifex Press has sold...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Paul Alford, owner of book distributor TB Clarke and long-time member of the Australian publishing industry, has died. Gary Pengelly, general manager of Thorpe-Bowker, writes: ‘On Monday this week I...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
US academic book publisher Arthur J Rosenthal has died, aged 93. Rosenthal founded academic publisher Basic Books in 1952, going on to publish influential books on psychology, sociology, current affairs, history...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
‘Dear England. We’re going to send you a big present: our Australian and New Zealand writers, film and music makers. It will all be like a series of loveable and...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Melbourne-based library supplier DA Information Services and its trade distribution arm Central Book Services have been placed into administration. Ferrier Hodgson partner John Lindholm was appointed voluntary administrator of the companies...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Allen & Unwin has continued to expand the Murdoch Books publishing team, with Diana Hill, Jane Morrow and Corinne Roberts joining Murdoch Books as publishers. A&U publishing director Sue Hines...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Bronwyn Halliday, former director of the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), has died. Halliday was director of the SLSA from 2000 to 2004, during which time she oversaw the...

Monday, 8 July 2013
After winning the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) is in first place on the fastest movers chart this week. Questions of Travel has also...

Monday, 8 July 2013
Kevin Ormsby has retired from the position of publishing manager at RMIT Publishing in Melbourne after eight years at the company. Prior to joining RMIT Publishing in 2006, Ormsby held a...

Monday, 8 July 2013
A festival of Australian and New Zealand literature and arts will be held in London for the first time in May 2014. The four-day festival, which covers literature, theatre, film...

Friday, 5 July 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Faith to Live By (Roland Ashby, Mosaic Press) Driven by...

Friday, 5 July 2013
Two books published by Melbourne-based university presses have won this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Tiwi: Arts, History, Culture by Jennifer Isaacs, published by Melbourne University Press’...