Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Australian children's author Eleanor Spence has died aged 80. Her books included The Switherby Pilgrims and Jamberoo Road and The Green Laurel.

Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The UK literary agent Pat Kavanagh has died. She represented a list of high-profile authors including Joanna Trollope, Robert Harris and John Irving. 

Monday, 20 October 2008
The 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair has concluded, with organisers celebrating the fair's 60th anniversary with record attendance numbers. However, on the floor, standholders' feelings were mixed, with a number reporting...

Thursday, 16 October 2008
Andrew Wilkins reports from Frankfurt: Agents and rights managers made a beeline for last week's 22nd International Rights Directors Meeting, an essential professional development event held each year on the eve of the...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: A 'lacklustre' year for the Book shortlist'Der Turm' wins German Book PrizeGoogle settlement near?Shortlist for Canadian...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008. He is described by the Nobel committee as an ‘author of new departures, poetic adventure and...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) has been named the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Adiga, who was born in Chennai, India, was raised partly...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The Frankfurt Book Fair opens today and runs through this week until Sunday. The fair, celebrating its 60th birthday this year, is expecting one of its biggest years ever, with just...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Anita Heiss and Peter Minter are the winners of the 2008 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deadly Award for outstanding achievement in literature. The award, announced at a ceremony at...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
By a unanimous show of hands, publishers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand voted to pursue closer cooperation between the three English-language markets at a special pre-book fair Summit held...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The winners of this year's Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards for women's crime writing have been announced. Katherine Howell took out the Best Crime Novel prize for Frantic (Pan) at...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Booksellers New Zealand has announced the resignation of CEO Linda Henderson. ‘It is with much regret that I announce the resignation,' said Hamish Wright, chair of the Booksellers New Zealand...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Georgia Richter to the position of publisher, with responsibility for the adult fiction and poetry lists. ‘Georgia is well-known in the literary community in Western Australia,...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it is partnering with the University of Melbourne Book Industry Study and Thorpe-Bowker to undertake ‘an online survey of publishing activity and expectations...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Twilight is sitting pretty at number three in the Bestsellers, as Stephenie Meyer keeps the chart afloat with four of her titles in the top eight. The top position goes...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany, 15-19 OctoberBelgrade International Book Fair, Serbia, 20-26 OctoberTo view these and...

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Ron Hanby, director of gay and lesbian sales at Bookazine (in America), has died. Before joining Bookazine, Hanby worked at Waldenbooks, B Dalton Bookseller and Encore Books.

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
‘We're surrounded by savage booksellers hungry and desperate to indent everything in sight. Their whole perverted purpose is quite simple--it's to eat us until we die'--former Wiley MD Peter Donoughue...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: The iPhone is beating the Kindle as a popular e-book readerFirst pictures of the new KindleSony launches the...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Donoughue enters the blogospherePeter Donoughue, former managing director of John Wiley and Sons in Australia, has created a new blog Pub Date Critical (click here). In his first posts the former...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Learning  Media, the New Zealand company responsible for the publication, production, marking and sale of educational materials ‘particularly to the Ministry of Education', anticipates some job losses, reports the New...

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
The winners of this year's New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced. Receiving $60,000 each for their contribution to New Zealand Literature were Lloyd Jones (for...