Wednesday, 14 March 2007
The eight novels selected for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 Longlist were announced last week. They are:Beyond the Break (Sandra Hall, Fourth Estate)Careless (Deborah Robertson, Picador)Carpentaria (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)Dreams...

Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Mister Pip by New Zealand author Lloyd Jones (Text) has won the best book award in the South East Asia and South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Tuvalu by Australian...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
For scandals, both fictional and otherwise, look no further than this week's top 10. Topping the charts is An Absolute Scandal, the latest page-turner from Penny Vincenzi, which follows the...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US bookstore sales drop againWaterstone's to close up to 30 storesUS critics name their favouritesOrange Prize renamed,...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: two awards announcements--the Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional winners and the Miles Franklin longlist--on 15 March;...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
French philosopher and postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard has died at the age of 77. A fierce critic of modern consumer culture, Baudrillard published more than 30 books expounding his theories...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, now in its fourth year, has announced some of the guests who will be attending the 2007 festival, to be held in Bali from...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Rosemary Cameron, director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), has announced a number of the authors who will be attending this year's festival. German novelist Juli Zeh (Eagles and Angels,...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Reporting its full-year results, Hachette Livre's parent company Lagardere said its ‘books segment enjoyed a year of solid growth,' raising sales by 20% overall in 2006, from €1.64 billion (A$2.6...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Jane Palfreyman, former executive publisher at Random House, has signed four titles since beginning in her new position of publisher at Allen & Unwin on 20 February--all of them by...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Faye Sutherland, manager of the Co-op Bookshop at Macquarie University, has been awarded this year's Unwin Trust Fellowship. Sutherland, who is the first academic bookseller to be awarded the fellowship, will...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Miles Franklin Award has announced an expanded regional author tour program, thanks to sponsorship from CAL.Building on a successful tour of regional NSW and Victoria by last year's winner...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Federal Government has issued a reminder to all employers that new record-keeping obligations required under the Work Choices legislation will be enforced after 27 March.The requirements, related largely to...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The shortlist for this year's National Biography Award has been announced.The six titles are:Arthur Tange (Peter Edwards, A&U)Mr Stuart's Track (John Bailey, Macmillan)The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize...

Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Author Lloyd Jones has been awarded the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency for 2007.Jones will spend a year in Berlin from August, where he will work on a new...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Books Alive has announced that Peter FitzSimons will be the ambassador for its fifth national campaign, running from Wednesday 25 July to Friday 31 August.FitzSimons' new book, The Ballad of...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The online newsletter Crikey yesterday published a copy of a draft version of the government's proposed legislation aimed at making classification of content ‘technology neutral'.Margaret Simons, writing in Crikey, said...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The 10 finalists in this year's Kiriyama Prize have been announced. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai, Hamish Hamilton); Stick out Your Tongue (Ma Jian, Vintage); Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
According to a report in the Age, Nikki Christer, Picador publishing director at Pan Macmillan, has announced her resignation from the company. Christer denied that she would be filling the...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Luck in the Greater West, by 37-year-old Damian McDonald, was announced as the winner of this year's ABC Fiction Award at an award ceremony in Sydney last night. McDonald, a...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The federal opposition has joined the government in pushing for a national curriculum for Australian schools. The Labor leader Kevin Rudd announced the opposition's plan for a consistent curriculum on...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
The winners of India's Hutch Crossword Book Awards were announced on 21 February in Mumbai. Sacred Games (Vikram Chandra, Faber) won the English fiction award, with Vikram Seth's family history...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Canada-based media group Torstar, owner of romance publisher Harlequin/Mills & Boon, has described 2006 as a ‘challenging' year in announcing its annual results. Net income for the year was down CAN$ 39.7 million...

Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Advanced Marketing Services (AMS), US-based parent company of the Australian distributor Bookwise, has reached an agreement with US wholesaler Baker & Taylor (B&T) on the sale of certain AMS assets. However,...