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Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop is opening a store in Canberra on 31 October. The store is Robinsons’ 10th and its first outside of Melbourne. It will open alongside other... Read more |
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The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival has announced the first guests for its 2017 program, which runs from 14-17 September in Hobart. UK author A C Grayling will deliver the... Read more |
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The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced its new books imprint, Brow Books. In a statement on its website, the imprint said it will publish ‘across a variety of genres, styles... Read more |
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Australia-based British author Cordelia Fine has been shortlisted for the 2017 Science Book Prize for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon Books). Fine’s book is one... Read more |
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$55,900) each. Novelist Witi Ihimaera has been honoured in the fiction category,... Read more |
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For blogger Danielle Carey, Instagram ‘feels like the most enthusiastic and inviting place to flail about books online’. Her Instagram-based microblog, Half Deserted Streets, reaches 11,000 followers, but she also... Read more |
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