HarperCollins has again reported a record annual result, its ninth consecutive year of growth, with worldwide sales of US$1.3 billion (A$1.65 billion) for 2005-06 and... Read more |
The Brisbane Writers’ Festival (BWF) has released the full program and guest-list for this year’s Festival, to be held from 13-17 September. With more than... Read more |
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlist for this year’s Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women published during 2005. Sisters in... Read more |
The shortlists for the NSW Kids Own Literature Awards (the KOALA awards) and Queensland’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY awards) have been announced. The... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards was announced at the state Library of Victoria last week by Victorian Minister of Arts Mary... Read more |
Three of the nineteen novels on the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize are by Australian authors. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey... Read more |
In news from our ‘Around the World’ blog this week, one of the world’s largest libraries–the library of the University of California–joins Google’s library project,... Read more |
Michael Sellers, the son of comedian Peter Sellers, has died. Sellers wrote two memoirs about the difficult relationship he had with his father: PS I... Read more |
American author, environmentalist and anarchist Murray Bookchin has died, aged 85. Bookchin was the author of over 20 books on environmental and political topics, and... Read more |
Australian theologian and biblical scholar Leon Morris has died, aged 92. Morris wrote more than 50 books that have sold nearly two million copies worldwide... Read more |
Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass is weathering a storm of controversy over revelations that he served in the infamous Nazi SS during WWII. Grass,... Read more |
Printer Ducor Group has been announced as the winner of the 2006 Heidelberg Australia Award for Marsupials of Australia, volume 3: Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-kangaroos... Read more |
The NSW Council of Civil Liberties has launched a legal challenge to the recent banning of two books by the Classification Review Board. The Council will... Read more |
The Overstocks and Remainders Fair (OARF) has announced the dates and venue for its 2007 event. OARF will be held at Melbourne’s Rydges Carlton Hotel... Read more |
HarperCollins, which announced late last year that it was digitising its entire catalogue (see WBN 4 January 2006), has now launched ‘Browse Inside’, the first... Read more |
The first Tasmanian Book Fair was held in Hobart on Sunday, as part of Tasmanian Living Writers’ Week. The fair, which included a meet-an-author program,... Read more |
While the timing of next year’s London Book Fair (LBF) within a week of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair means children’s publishers in the UK... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The winner of the long romance section... Read more |
A letter to WBN subscribers The new online WBN service has now been in operation for about two months and we would like to share with... Read more |
In the wake of the recently uncovered terrorist plot to detonate explosives on several US-bound flights out of the UK, increased flight security measures have... Read more |
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