Monday, 6 December 2010
Betty Jean Lifton, a writer, adoptee and adoption-reform advocate, has died aged 84. Lifton was best known for a nonfiction trilogy: Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (McGraw Hill,...

Monday, 6 December 2010
Bert van Bedaf, whose writings made a lasting contribution to the Dutch experience in Australia, has died aged 61. Van Bedaf wrote About the Dutch, The First Europeans to Explore...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
New category for WA's Premier's Book Awards  The State Library of Western Australia has announced that a new category will be added to the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards from next...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
CEO of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Maree McCaskill has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that a publishing event attended by Australian and Chinese publishers last week was an 'enormous success'....

Sunday, 5 December 2010
Dymocks has announced the launch of a same-day bicycle delivery service within Sydney's CBD. The ‘Dymocks CBD Pushy Express' will offer same-day delivery in the city's CBD or North Sydney...

Sunday, 5 December 2010
Author Hugh Lunn and his publisher ABC Books have written to the Monthly editor Ben Naparstek ‘requesting an apology and removal' of a review of Lunn's book Words Fail Me...

Thursday, 2 December 2010
Unless otherwise indicated, businesses listed are not open on weekends or public holidays. Australian public holidays include: Saturday, 25 December 2010: Christmas Day Sunday, 26 December 2010: Boxing Day (not...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has recorded sales growth for the eighth successive year, announcing overall international sales growth of 11.5% in books and journals for the year to 30 April...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Back in the most mentioned chart is Hand Me Down World (Lloyd Jones, Text), about a North African woman who washes ashore in Sicily and is looking for her son....

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The shortlist for the 2011 Tasmania Book Prizes has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Best book with Tasmanian content in any genre ($25,000):In Search of Hobart (Peter Timms, UNSW Press)Wanting...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The longlist for the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The longlisted authors are:Sally Bothroyd (A Cocoa Jackson Mystery)Courtney Collins (The Burial)Richard Gosling (Bear)John Hughes (The Remnants)Lesley Jørgensen...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Tim Jones is the winner of the 2010 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature. Jones is a Wellington-based poet and author of science and literary fiction. Jones is the...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
The program for the 2011 Ten Days on the Island arts festival in Tasmania was officially launched last week. The 2011 festival will take place between 25 March and 3...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
'I understand why people make these buying decisions, as consumers thinking purely about money, but if you care about making ethical buying decisions (and have the funds to do so),...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--HarperCollins has sold Fast Fresh Simple (Donna Hay) to Germany; Seasons (Donna Hay) to Italy and Get Over It! (Bev Aisbett) to Brazil.Children's/YA--HarperCollins has sold...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Next week's Weekly Book Newsletter (8 December) will be the last for 2010. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2011 will be 12 January 2011.Any news or advertisements for the...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by COB this Friday 3 December. A full list will appear once only in the final Weekly Book...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Alix Bosco is the winner of the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand Crime Fiction. The pseudonymous writer won the award for Cut and Run (Penguin), heading off fellow finalists...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week our reviewer Hannah Cartmel interviews Juliet Marillier on her new novel The Seer of Sevenwaters (Macmillan); Lucy Meredith reviews Katherine Howell's Violent Exposure...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Professional writers and editors have expressed concerns over pending changes to the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing offered at Victorian TAFE institutions following a re-accreditation of the course by Skills...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
While out collecting bottle tops at the beach, a boy discovers an enormous, bizarre and lonely creature that nobody else appears to notice. Feeling a sorry for it, he decides...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Hardie Grant Books announced today that it has re-released former criminal lawyer Andrew Fraser's book Snouts in the Trough in Victoria. As reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter in October,...

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
DecemberGraeme Base, Penguin (The Legend Of The Golden Snail) Richard Blackburn, Zeus Publications (‘Gatekeeper' trilogy)Kay Danes, Big Sky Publishing (Beneath The Pale Blue Burqa) Elizabeth Donaldson, Exisle Publishing (William Dobell)...