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The winners of the 2016 Australian Romance Readers Awards, presented by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA), have been announced, with Anne Gracie named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the... Read more |
Melbourne-based writer and academic Odette Kelada has won UWA Publishing’s (UWAP) Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘Drawing Sybylla’. Kelada receives $10,000 and a publishing contract... Read more |
Australian author Hannah Kent and Australian-born, US-based Dominic Smith have been longlisted for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Kent is longlisted for The Good People (Picador) and... Read more |
Retail, hospitality and fast-food industry workers will have their Sunday and public holiday penalty rates reduced, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ruled. Full and part-time retail workers’ Sunday rates... Read more |
This week’s charts contain some familiar titles, with Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wrightbooks) continuing its run as the number-one bestseller in the country, and Liane Moriarty taking four titles in... Read more |
In the UK, Pearson has reported a pre-tax loss of £2.6bn (A$4.22bn) in 2016, attributed to challenges in the US education market, reports the Bookseller. Pearson also reported a rise... Read more |
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