Monday, 3 June 2013
The winners of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize were announced in the UK on 31 May. UK author Lisa O’Donnell has won the £10,000...

Monday, 3 June 2013
Khaled Hosseini’s third novel And the Mountains Echoed (Bloomsbury) is at the top of the highest new entries chart this week and second on the bestseller charts. Hosseini tells a...

Friday, 31 May 2013
The winners of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing have been announced. The overall prize, worth $4000, was presented to Rebecca Slater from University...

Friday, 31 May 2013
Cengage Learning will adopt a new global pricing structure for US-originated higher education print titles in July, with around a third of the US-originated titles distributed by Cengage Australia to...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Pearson has announced that it is reviewing its educational publishing business in New Zealand and may close its New Zealand office. The publisher said in a statement this week that...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival included the annual Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program, which offers Australian publishers the opportunity to meet with international publishers and editors. On 22 May several...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
The 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival, the first under artistic director Jemma Birrell, has recorded the festival’s second-highest box office sales and the second-best year for the festival bookshop. Executive director...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
This year’s Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize has been awarded to Quinn Berentson. Berentson received a cash prize of NZ$5000 (A$4203) for his book Moa: The Life...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
‘I look forward to reading the longlist in next year’s Award for Male Reader Engagement. Or better title, The Day My Bum Grew Up and Started Reading Literary Fiction’—Poet and...