University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) will no longer enter its titles for Australian book awards from 2017. UWAP director Terri-ann White said in a letter to UWAP authors that... Read more |
Medical researcher Jaye Chin-Dusting has purchased Mary Martin Bookshop in Southgate, Melbourne, from the previous owners Graham and Margaret Brookes, who have decided to retire after running the business for... Read more |
ABC TV’s The Book Club will present an hour-long special program on Tuesday, 13 December to discuss 2016’s best books. The ‘Five of the Best 2016’ program will see hosts... Read more |
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This week’s two highest new entries, Lee Child’s Night School (Bantam) and David Walliams’ The Midnight Gang (HarperCollins), have debuted in second and third spots respectively in the top 10... Read more |
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Alex Wheatle has won the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize for his YA novel Crongton Knights (Atom Books), the second book in a planned trilogy ‘set on a fictitious inner... Read more |
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the books shortlisted for the 2016 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. The six shortlisted titles are: A Doubter’s Almanac (Ethan Canin, Bloomsbury),... Read more |
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