Monday, 15 November 2010
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Monday, 15 November 2010
Roger McDonald's When Colts Ran (Vintage) is an epic Australian tale of friendship, toil, hope and history, which is number one on our most mentioned chart this week (read our...

Monday, 15 November 2010
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If God Were the Sun?) Peter...

Monday, 15 November 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW Christmas Party: 17 November Society of Editors Dinner Meeting (VIC): 17 November15th annual...

Monday, 15 November 2010
The Adelaide Festival announced last week that Laura Kroetsch has been appointed as the new executive producer of Adelaide Writers' Week. Festival organisers also announced that Writers' Week will move to an...

Monday, 15 November 2010
James Freud, Australian musician and author of two memoirs, I Am the Voice Left from Drinking (2002) and I Am the Voice Left from Rehab (2007), has died aged 51.

Wednesday, 10 November 2010
HarperCollins to move in 2011HarperCollins plans to move its Sydney operations to a CBD location by mid-2011. The publisher is currently located in the Sydney suburb of Pymble.New Asia Pacific commercial director for Swets Netherlands-based...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The nominations for the 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal have been announced. Australians among the nominations include Morris Gleitzman for Now (Viking) and Garth Nix for Lord Sunday (A&U). UK writer...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Winners of the 51st BNZ Literary Award have been announced. The Katherine Mansfield Award, New Zealand's top short fiction prize, was presented to Wellington writer Wes Lee for her short...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
New Western Australia-based science-fiction and fantasy publisher Dragonfall Press has launched its list. The first two books to be published are The Young Magician and She Who Has No Name, book...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Franchise owners Chris Lysaght and Taryn Hyder have opened a new Angus & Robertson in the town of Busselton, WA. Chris Lysaght told the Weekly Book Newsletter he had held a...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The winners of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced on Monday 8 November in Melbourne by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for the Arts Simon Crean....

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Michael Cathcart is the winner of the Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2009. Cathcart was presented with the $10,000 award and the H.T. Priestley Medal last...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
From The Miegunyah Press, publisher of the bestseller First Australians, comes the lavishly illustrated art+soul, the companion book to the prime-time ABC TV series by the same name. To celebrate...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If God Were the Sun?) Peter...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
‘Books are way over-priced, but it's not just books that you can get cheaper by buying online, it's everything. If you know exactly what you want you will find a...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The New Edition bookshop in Fremantle has opened a second store in Northbridge, Perth.The new independent bookshop's premises on William Street, Northbridge were formerly occupied by the Arcane Bookshop, which...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW Branch 2010 Christmas Party: 17 NovemberSociety of Editors Dinner Meeting (VIC): 17 NovemberTo...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Hachette Australia has sold Chinese complex character rights to Kindling (Darren Groth). HarperCollins has sold The Prodigal Mage and The Reluctant Mage (both Karen Miller)...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The most pressing concern of booksellers at the 2010 Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference, held last week in Sydney, was the lack of a retail platform for ebooks, according...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Australian author and editor Gib Wettenhall has launched em Press Publishing, a new independent Victorian publishing venture specialising in south-east Australian landscapes and their historical and cultural contexts. Wettenhall will...

Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Plantation (Di Morrissey, Macmillan), the fictional story of an Australian woman who ventures to Malaysia on a quest to unlock her family's past, is top of both the bestsellers...