Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Wiley has reported revenue in the Asia Pacific division of its Global Education segment fell by $13 million (approximately A$12.7 million) or eight percent in the fourth quarter, ‘reflecting softness in the...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Spinifex has sold Macedonian translation rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus) to ArsLamina. Children’s/YA—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare have sold Taiwanese rights to Looking for Rex (Jan...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Andy Griffiths’ The 26-storey Treehouse (Pan), about a treehouse that includes an anti-gravity chamber, a mud-fighting arena and a dodgem car rink, is first on the fastest movers chart and seventh...

Monday, 3 September 2012
Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross (S&S) has won this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction, presented during the 2012 Christchurch Writers Festival. Cross’ novel, the first...

Monday, 3 September 2012
Peter Evans, author and journalist, has died aged 78. Evans’ work was published in many newspapers and magazines and he co-authored Goodbye Baby & Amen (1969) and wrote several books including Ari...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Screen Australia has announced 'development support' funding for several book-to-film adaptations, which are among 23 projects that will receive a total of $700,000. Among the funding recipients is a film adaptation of Tim...

Wednesday, 29 August 2012
‘Australian literature doesn’t need saving or preserving—what it needs are partisans, contrarians and heretics’—writer and lecturer Emmett Stinson responds to Jacob Silverman’s article in Slate magazine with a critique of Australia’s literary ‘consensus culture’

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
With Father’s Day around the corner, it’s not surprising to see rugby league player Nathan Hindmarsh’s autobiography Old School (Nathan Hindmarsh & Michael Visontay, Macmillan) at the top of the...