Amanda Lohrey has won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her seventh novel, The Labyrinth (Text). Lohrey, the second Tasmanian writer to win the Miles Franklin in its 64-year... Read more
Asphyxia has won the 2021 Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her novel Future Girl (A&U). Asphyxia’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $3000 prize, which considers first and second... Read more
Hachette Australia has announced marketing and communications director Emma Rusher is leaving the company. ‘Over the last two years as marketing and communications director, Emma Rusher has led a strong... Read more
Jane Seaton, from Beaufort Street Books in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley, has been appointed president of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA). Seaton, who has been on the ABA... Read more