Twenty-one works have been short-listed for the 2006 NSW Premier’s History Awards. ‘These awards, worth $90,000, honour the achievements of Australian historians and highlight the... Read more
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WBN understands that Borders is set to open at least four new stores before Christmas: at Camberwell in suburban Melbourne; in Canberra’s Civic; and at... Read more
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Melbourne’s Technical Bookshop has entered voluntary administration. ‘We’re continuing to trade and are confident we can reach a solution,’ managing director Caroline Radford told WBN.... Read more
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The winners of the 2006 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced at a dinner in Melbourne on Monday 4 September. In his opening speech, Victorian... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards were announced by the Crime Writers’ Association of Australia, in conjunction with the Age and the Age... Read more
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Peter FitzSimons’ weighty military tome Tobruk holds on to the number one spot for the second week running, but the kids are catching up; Andy... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Book City annual conference, which takes place in Melbourne... Read more
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Industry bodies including the Australian Publishers Association (APA), Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) have joined forces... Read more
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Nextra Strathpine in Queensland is now owned by Peter Keys, and has joined the Leading Edge Books team.
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Renowned Australian children’s author Colin Thiele has died, aged 85, after suffering from heart complications. Thiele published more than 100 books in his lifetime, including... Read more
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Egypt’s most celebrated author Naguib Mahfouz has died from heart failure, aged 94. Mahfouz was the first Arab writer to be awarded a Nobel Prize... Read more
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Australia’s famous ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin has died from a stingray attack off the coast of Queensland. Irwin published three books in his career: The... Read more
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Mary Drum, formerly sales and marketing director at Hachette Livre, has launched a new publishing company, Drum Publishing, following the end of her contract with... Read more
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The Melbourne Writers Festival wound up on Sunday 3 September with a sold-out debate between Robert Manne and Andrew Bolt on the Stolen Generations. The... Read more
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The 2006 Beijing International Book Fair wound up on Saturday 2 September, after four days of intense activity, with first reports suggesting the event was... Read more
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This year’s $10,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award for Indigenous artists has been presented to Vivienne Cleven for her two novels Bitin’ Back (UQP) and Her Sister’s... Read more
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Children’s Book Week recently wound up, having run from 19 to 25 August. The annual event, facilitated by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, kicked... Read more
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In our Around the World blog this week: Penguin is set to publish classics in Chinese; China’s first foreign-owned bookshop for professional publications; the 2006... Read more
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