New Zealand author Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip, (Text) has won this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The prize for best book, worth £10,000 (A$24,000), was announced... Read more
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Shaun Tan’s extraordinary picture book The Arrival (Hachette Livre Australia)–the story of one man’s immigrant experience, told entirely without words–has been named Book of the... Read more
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Trish Garner was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year award for Florence Broadhurst (Helen O’Neil, Hardie Grant Books) and Deborah Brash... Read more
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The 2007 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) is underway, under the banner ‘a city transformed by words.’ By the time the festival’s official opening address is presented tonight... Read more
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Following the news last week that ABC Enterprises is closing its audio books production department, online bookseller Amazon.com has announced the expansion of its audio... Read more
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The Brisbane Writers Festival has announced it will move to the newly transformed State Library of Queensland in 2007. ‘We are thrilled to work together... Read more
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Borders has announced its Australian pre-order sales for the final Harry Potter instalment are currently five times that of the sixth book in the series.... Read more
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Australian author Matthew Reilly, who will appear at this week’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, has sold a TV pilot to Sony. The television show, called Literary... Read more
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This year’s Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, which ran from 24 to 27 May, was ‘without a doubt our best festival ever’ according to festival... Read more
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Garrett on ‘Book Show’ Following new federal Minister for the Arts Senator George Brandis’ interview on ABC Radio National’s ‘Book Show’, federal shadow Minister for... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: Inaugural London literature festival announced McDonalds seeks to redefine ‘McJob’ Famous Polish author... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers’ Festival, which runs until 3 June BookExpo America... Read more
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As the cold weather sets in, it seems readers are resisting the temptation of comfort food by following the practical advice of the CSIRO. Storming... Read more
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‘At its best, powerful writing about Australia feeds into the soul of the country.’ Shadow Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett on ABC Radio National’s... Read more
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