Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced some of its line-up this year. Confirmed authors include Anne Enright, William Dalrymple, Ma Jian, Kate Adie and Dewi Lestari, alongside a healthy Australian...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Comedian and author Anh Do announced Angus & Robertson Top 100 at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre last night. The Top 100 lists Australia’s favourite books, with 101,655 votes cast from around the country....

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Gleebooks at Dulwich Hill is opening its doors on Thursday 1 July at 5pm, followed by ‘a weekend of literary events with authors including Garth Nix, David Marr, Annabel Crabb,...

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Australian illustrator Freya Blackwood has been announced as the winner of the 2010 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, one of the world's premier awards for illustration.Blackwood won the award for her...

Sunday, 27 June 2010
Simon & Schuster has confirmed that, as part of a 'realignment' of its sales team, four sales positions have been made redundant. S&S Australia managing director Lou Johnson told the...

Wednesday, 23 June 2010
The two-day conference Imagine This! Imagine That! held on 18 and 19 of June in Sydney, by the NSW branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA), attracted 400...

Wednesday, 23 June 2010
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the creation of a new ABR Patrons’ Fellowship program.The publication’s editor Peter Rose told the Weekly Book Newsletter that ABR hoped to offer...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Geoff Walker, publishing director at Penguin New Zealand, has announced he is leaving the position to ‘pursue other opportunities'.A statement from Penguin New Zealand said Walker would leave the company...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The recipients of the 2010 State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships have been announced.The recipients were: Luke Beesley, who is researching a manuscript of poems and drawings based on research...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Amsterdam-based Australian translator David Colmer is the co-winner of this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his translation of The Twin by Gerband Bakker (Scribe) from Dutch into English.Colmer,...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week Barbara Cullen reviews Rodney Hall's Popeye Never Told You (Pier 9); Blair Mahoney reviews The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre); our...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
For a round-up of rights sales over the past month, see the July issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, now with subscribers.In subsequent recent rights sales: FictionWakefield Press has sold Chinese-language ebook...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
José Saramago, Portuguese writer and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, has died aged 87.

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
‘Hand-sell this book until your hands bleed'--Peter Temple on what booksellers should do with his 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel Truth (he also thanked them for supporting it thus...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Coming to cinemas on 8 July is The Hedgehog, freely inspired by Muriel Barbery's bestselling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Gallic). With thanks to Peribo and Madman, the Weekly...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
June Benjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe, (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch Books (Really Wild Tea...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
It’s now been 50 years since Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints) was published. The hype in America surrounding this literary anniversary is high and the Australian...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Australian Book Industry Awards: 30 JuneWalkley Book Award first-round entries close: 30 JuneOnline Retailer Expo &...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin last night, Truth by Peter Temple (Text) is the winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.Temple's book is the first...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Collins Booksellers has confirmed that its Book City stores in Orange, Wagga Wagga, Griffith and Echuca recently commenced trading as Collins Booksellers. ‘An additional four Book City stores will rebrand...

Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Wyld wins Betty Trask award for 'After the Fire, A Still Small Voice'London-based Australian author Evie Wyld has won a £7,000 (A$11,800) Betty Trask award for her debut novel After...