The shortlist of books nominated for this year’s Age Book of the Year prize has been released. The shortlisted titles are: Nonfiction: A Trial Separation:... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Speech Pathology Australia’s Book of the Year 2006 are: Language development, young children–Annie’s Chair (Deborah Niland, Viking) Language development, lower... Read more |
Indian novelist Raja Rao has died in Austin, Texas, aged 97. His book Kanthapura (Oxford University Press India), published in 1938, was the first major... Read more |
The future of Campus Bookseller+Publisher–the only magazine to focus exclusively on Australian tertiary publishing and campus bookselling–is in the balance following confirmation that the forthcoming October issue... Read more |
Several authors including Christopher Cheng, Matthew Reilly, Hazel Edwards and Jen McVeity, have been named as literacy ‘champions’ as part of this year’s National Literacy... Read more |
In news from our ‘Around the World’ blog this week: a US-based print-on-demand publisher has lost a long-running defamation case; toy maker Fisher-Price is developing a bank... Read more |
At its recent annual general meeting, the Society of Editors (Victoria) presented Jackie Yowell with an award for honorary life membership in recognition of her... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined the chorus of voices protesting plans by the Attorney-general, Philip Ruddock, to tighten the classification regime for... Read more |
Books Alive may have just started, but it seems to have made an impact on our reading habits already. The proof of the pudding is... Read more |
It’s not often that a story on poetry makes the news section of the Sydney Morning Herald, but a war of words between poets John... Read more |
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