Tuesday, 11 July 2006
Following a review of an earlier decision, the Classification Review Board has banned two books that it considers ‘promote jihad and incite terrorism.'The books, Defence of the Muslim Lands (Maktabah,...

Tuesday, 11 July 2006
UK author Mal Peet's World War Two novel Tamar (Walker) has won this year's Carnegie Medal. The chair of judges Teresa Scragg said the decision to award the prize to...

Tuesday, 11 July 2006
Wolves (Macmillan Children's Books UK), the first book for children by Emily Gravett, has been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for excellence in illustration in children's books. The other books...

Monday, 10 July 2006
Looking for information that's appeared in a previous issue of WBN?Now you no longer have to remember to save old issues of WBN yourself. You can access previously published WBN content...

Sunday, 9 July 2006
Jonestown, Chris Masters' controversial biography of radio broadcaster Alan Jones, dominated the media throughout the week. Now that Allen & Unwin have picked up the publishing rights we image they're in quite a hurry...

Sunday, 9 July 2006
In the latest of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media conducted for MX by Alae Taule'alo, we meet Claire Sutherland, books editor of...

Thursday, 6 July 2006
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish Jonestown: The Magic and The Myth of Alan Jones by Chris Masters.‘I am pleased to be able to work with a...

Wednesday, 5 July 2006
The APA-sponsored Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have announced the shortlisted entries for 14 of the 18 awards. Shortlisted and winning entries in these awards were chosen by an academy...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Well, it's no secret who the winners are this week. Cathy Kelly's Past Secrets (HarperCollins) enjoys top place for the third week in a row. (We wonder if any of...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
The NSW Writers' Centre's first Indigenous Writers' Festival, held on 24 June as part of the 2006 NAIDOC week, was a wonderful success, according to the centre's executive director Irina...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Australian Book Wholesalers (ABW), a new sales, marketing and distribution company, commenced business on 1 July. The ABW team includes former Australian Book Centre (ABC) staff Susan McDade, as general...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
The secondhand bookshop run by the RMIT University Student Union has closed following the introduction of voluntary student unionism (VSU). The not-for-profit bookshop, which was run by students, with a...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Shearer's Bookshop in Sydney's Leichardt has taken out this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist window display competition. To see a photo of the winning entry and find out more...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Barbara Epstein, the founding joint editor of the New York Review of Books, has died, aged 76.

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
The first issue of new online monthly newsletter Buzz Words was launched on 1 July by author and editor Dianne Bates. The newsletter, which will focus on children's books, will...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival has announced an expanded schools program for the 2006 festival. The program will include sessions for students in Years 5 and 6 as well as...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
The 2006 Mary Gilmore Award for a first book of poetry published in the preceding two calendar years has been awarded to David McCooey for his collection Blister Pack (Salt)....

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) has awarded its ALS Gold Medal for an outstanding literary work to Greg Day for his novel The Patron Saint of Eels (Picador). The award,...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Some subscribers have asked us if there's a way of avoiding having to log in to the website each time they visit. The answer is yes!When you login on our...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
ABC Books has cancelled the publication of a biography of controversial broadcaster Alan Jones by renowned Four Corners investigative journalist Chris Masters, following an 'appraisal' by the ABC board.The book is...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Australian fantasy author Trudi Canavan is one of the first authors to benefit from the recent announcement that the Little, Brown sci-fi/fantasy imprint Orbit--now owned by Hachette Livre--is expanding from...

Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Jamie Byng, the founder of the Edinburgh-based independent publisher Canongate, has told the Age that he has used his two nominations for this year's Man Booker Prize to enter two...

Sunday, 2 July 2006
The book media has sunk its teeth into the hoo-hah surrounding this year's Miles Franklin Award-winner, Roger McDonald. Despite a whopping seven mentions by our MX contributors, McDonald's book The...

Sunday, 2 July 2006
In the third of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media, conducted for MX by Alae Taule'alo, we meet Ray Chesterton, literary editor of...

Tuesday, 27 June 2006
A number of subscribers have asked us if they can 'scroll through the entire newsletter the way we used to.' The short answer is: you can, with just one click of...