Australian authors Geraldine Brooks and Shirley Barrett have been longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Brooks is longlisted for her novel The Secret Chord (Hachette) and Barrett... Read more
Australia’s oldest bookshop Birchalls in Launceston is up for sale. Managing director Graeme Tilley said in a statement that the Tilley family has decided to sell the business after running... Read more
The Stella Prize has announced two partnerships, one with the Victorian government to run literature workshops for secondary schools and the other with the Australian Writers’ Week program in China.... Read more
In the US, Amazon will open its second bricks-and-mortar bookstore in San Diego, California in mid-2016, reports Publisher’s Weekly. The San Diego store will be located in an ‘upscale mall’... Read more