Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Library services provider CAVAL has announced it has acquired Languages Direct. CAVAL acquired the specialist language library supply business from DA Information Services and said 'all Languages Direct and CAVAL...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Charlotte Harper writes: Some 600,000 iPads have been sold in Australia and Amazon's Kindle may have already gained a 60% share of the ereader market in this country, attendees at...

Monday, 28 November 2011
The winners of this year's Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards, the children's choice book awards for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), have been announced. The winning titles are:Picture storybooksMr...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Poet Robert Gray is the recipient of this year's Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award. Gray, who released his first collection of poetry in 1973, was presented with...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Angela Savage has won the 2011 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award, presented on 25 November in Melbourne. Savage, author of Behind the Night Bazaar and The Half-Child (both Text),...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:2011 Guadalajara International Book Fair: On now, until 4 DecNational Novel Writing Month (1-30 Nov) Ends:...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Ahead of the bicentenary of his birth next year, Charles Dickens was all over the papers this week thanks to a new biography: Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life (Viking). Receiving...

Monday, 28 November 2011
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Monday, 28 November 2011
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Monday, 28 November 2011
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth.Becca Fitzpatrick, Simon & Schuster (Silence) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Brenton E McKenna, Magabala Books (Ubby's Underdogs) Dromkeen, Riddells Creek VIC.Tara Moss, Pan...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Juliana Archbold, president of The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Australia since 2003, has died aged 73. Archibold, who had an extensive and distinguished career as a...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Lana Peters (also known as Svetlana Alliluyeva), soviet dictator Josef Stalin's only daughter, who defected to the West during the Cold War, has died aged 85. Peters published a memoir,...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Tom Wicker, former New York Times columnist and author of around 20 books including A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt, has died aged 85.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:BookFest@Singapore 2011: 18-27 NovemberWalkley Media Conference 'Inventing the Future': 25-27 November18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards: 25 NovemberAPA...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
All five books on the most mentioned chart received equal mentions this week. Gillian Mears' Foal's Bread (A&U) appeared on the Most Mentioned list again, as it continues to generate interest...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011
November John Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth.Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and Melbourne.Janelle Bloom, Ebury (My Favourite Food...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Verna Coleman, librarian and biographer, has died aged 86. Coleman's biographies include Miles Franklin in America: Her Unkown (Brilliant) Career (1981); The Last Exquisite, about poet and novelist Fredric Manning;...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Sydney-based independent bookseller Pages & Pages has become the first retailer to start selling ebooks using the ReadCloud platform, following the launch of its ebookstore on 9 November. Pages &...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Thorpe-Bowker, publisher of the Weekly Book Newsletter, has announced that Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel will be leaving the company at the end of 2011. Thorpe-Bowker has also announced that design and...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas has been nominated for the UK Literary Review's Bad S-x in Fiction Award for the second year running. Tsiolkas' novel Dead Europe, which was first published in...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week Andrew Rankin reviews Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific (Tim Flannery, Text); Portia Lindsay reviews Forecast: Turbulence (Janette Turner Hospital, Fourth Estate);...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Random House has sold Sandakan (Paul Ham) to the United Kingdom; and Hot Relationships (Tracey Cox) to Romania.Children's/YA--Random House has sold the ‘Ranger's Apprentice' series...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
‘We consciously decided to do something about how few [film and television] projects were being generated around our books and made it our business to get to know the film...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
In his Unwin Trust Fellowship report Mark Richards compared the place of agents in the Australian and UK literary communities and found a perception, on the part of many local...

Tuesday, 22 November 2011
The shortlist for this year's Human Rights Literature Award, presented to a work of nonfiction by the Australian Human Rights Commission and sponsored by The Co-op Bookshop, has been announced....