Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers (Text) and a number of other books on nature and the environment, has been named Australian of the... Read more |
Hachette Livre Australia has announced the appointment of Matt Hoy as sales and marketing director of its Little, Brown division. Hoy, currently senior national accounts... Read more |
ABC Fiction Award-winner Will Elliot has taken out the Golden Aurealis, the highest award in Australian speculative fiction, for his debut novel The Pilo Family... Read more |
The NSW Writers’ Centre has added a new event to its calendar: the Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival. The inaugural Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival will be... Read more |
Young Australian Muslim author Randa Abdel-Fatah has been named on the longlist for the UK’s deciBel Writer of the Year award, for her debut YA... Read more |
Book Expo America (BEA) has launched a new website at http://www.bookexpoamerica.com, designed to be ‘a more effective, year-round tool in building relationships,’ according to event... Read more |
Australian audiobook publisher Bolinda has six of its titles in the running for the Audies, the annual US-based audiobook awards. The six Bolinda titles are:... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced that is has signed a new novel by Nobel laureate and double Booker-winner J M Coetzee. Diary of a Bad Year... Read more |
In our Around the World blog this week: Is AMS headed for liquidation? Shafak cuts US tour after Dink murder T S Eliot Prize for... Read more |
After several weeks in the top 10, Kim Edward’s family drama The Memory Keepers Daughter has finally taken out the top spot. The bestselling title... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include several overseas book fairs: the International Book Fair in Cairo,... Read more |
A memorial tribute for Neil Curtis, who sadly passed away on Monday 11 December last year, will be held on Sunday 4 February at 2pm,... Read more |
Era Publications writes: ‘On the occasion of the memorial held for illustrator Neil Curtis, the team at Era Publications offers sincere condolences to his partner... Read more |
Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has died of cancer at the age of 73. As the Polish Press Agency’s sole foreign correspondent during the... Read more |
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