The Gathering by Irish author Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) has won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, beating New Zealand hope Lloyd Jones whose Mister Pip... Read more |
As this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair wrapped up last Sunday, Australian attendees and the fair’s organisers expressed strong satisfaction with how it has gone. ‘I walked around... Read more |
The 2007 Nobel Prizes were announced last week in Sweden. This year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature is British writer Doris Lessing, at... Read more |
Changes to the Trade Practices Act were passed recently by Federal Parliament, including the so-called ‘Birdsville amendment’ proposed by Queensland National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce.... Read more |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced an ‘informal review’ into proposed bids for Borders by Angus & Robertson and by Dymocks. The... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has commissioned industry consultants Bloom Partners to prepare a ‘green paper’ to examine the arguments for and against the parallel... Read more |
Random House Australia has announced the appointment of former UQP publisher Leonie Tyle as publisher of an as yet unnamed new children’s imprint. Linsay Knight,... Read more |
The long-established Sydney independent Macleay Bookshop has a new owner. The store, in the inner-city suburb of Potts Point, is now owned by Richard Stern and... Read more |
The Federal Government has announced that the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme will receive ‘ongoing funding’. The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has welcomed the... Read more |
Walker Books has reported strong results for 2006, with turnover up 11% to £53 million (A$116 million) and pre-tax profits up ‘slightly’ on last year... Read more |
Australian author Marcus Zusak has picked up another prize: his YA novel The Messenger (Picador) has been named as the winner of the Youth Jury... Read more |
Griffin Press has announced its certification by FSC Australia. As part of the International Forest Stewardship Council, FSC Australia is designed to ensure the responsible... Read more |
German prize for de KretserThe LiBeraturpreis 2007 Prize has been awarded to Michelle de Kretser for her novel The Hamilton Case (Vintage). The author of... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: EU clears Egmont/Bonnier deal Oliveri resigns from Wiley/Blackwell German president attacked... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: New Zealand Library Week 15 – 21 October Walkley Award... Read more |
‘Can you imagine the scene? [I’m with] my Swedish publisher at a very, very formal dinner … an official, he said, “I’ve come to tell... Read more |
The bestsellers are quite the mixed bag this mid-October week. Thriller Double Cross by James Patterson makes it to number one, followed by Those Faraday... Read more |
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Author, playwright and television writer Steve J Spears has died in Adelaide. Spears’ books included Mr Edmund, Big Wish and Froggie. He was 56.
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