Tuesday, 28 June 2011
JulyTristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne.      James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835: The...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Poet Kerry Leves has died, aged 63. Leaves' most recent poetry collection, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar, was shortlisted for the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize and the New South Wales Premier's...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 22 June, That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented at an...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books) has won this year's Carnegie Award, presented each year for outstanding writing in children's books. The Kate Greenaway Award for distinguished illustration...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Power and Majesty by Australian author Tansy Rayner Roberts (Voyager) has won the Ravenheart Award for best fantasy book jacket at this year's David Gemmell Legends Awards for fantasy writing.  ...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has advised that former speaker's agency Show & Tell Promotions has designed a 'repayment schedule' to repay authors for unpaid speaking events. As previously...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold US and Canadian rights to That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador) to Bloomsbury.Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold Opening the Door...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
A recent survey conducted by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has found that 26% of local publishers admit to having no digital strategy. The survey on digital publishing trends, which recorded...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As Kim Scott takes out one of the country's best known prizes, Fairfield Books' Heather Dyer and Allen & Unwin publisher Jane Palfreyman address the fraught question 'Is there such...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
'We are a long way from being a post-reconciliation society'--Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott responds to judges comments that That Deadman Dance is a 'post-reconciliation' novel.

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Toni Whitmont interviews Kim Scott on That Deadman Dance (Picador) and we take a look at the shortlisted titles for the 2011 PANZ Book Design...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
New publisher Spineless Wonders, which launched with the short story collection Permission to Lie (Julie Chevalier) in April, has announced the establishment of the Carmel Bird Short Fiction Award. The...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pottermore website to sell Harry Potter ebooks exclusively'Digital makes territorial rights obsolete': CharkinUS ebook...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The third book in the 'Fallen' series, Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), has risen to the top of the bestsellers chart, in first place, and has maintained the top position on...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Australian author Tim Flannery has been longlisted for the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Flannery's Here on Earth: An argument for hope (Text) is one of 13 titles...

Monday, 27 June 2011
The shortlists for this year's Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the best designed cover category are:Eep! (Joke can Leeuwen,...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the best artist category in the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation in the US....

Monday, 27 June 2011
New name for ABR poetry prize The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its Poetry Prize has been renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in memory of the late Australian...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards Closing: 30 June 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, winners announced this week:...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Melanie Joosten's Berlin Syndrome (Scribe), Malcolm Knox's The Life (A&U) and Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (Picador) received equal mentions this week. Kim Scott is the winner of this year's...

Monday, 27 June 2011
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Monday, 27 June 2011
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