Be the first to see The Edge of Heaven – a German/Turkish film that won the Best Screenplay prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher Online (www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/) will be offline for a few hours on Thursday afternoon, 17 April, for essential site upgrades and maintenance. The scheduled outage will... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Award will be announced on Thursday 17 April. Look out for a WBN Special Bulletin as soon as... Read more |
Registrations for the 2008 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference close this Friday, 18 April. This year’s conference will be held over three days, 15-17 June,... Read more |
Claims that a Lonely Planet contributor plagiarised and made up large sections of three guidebooks, widely reported in the mainstream media in recent days, have been ‘taken... Read more |
Random House Australia unveiled its new children’s imprint last week. To be headed up by former UQP publisher Leonie Tyle, ‘Woolshed Press’ will be ‘courageous,... Read more |
After almost six-and-a-half years with the company, Andrew Wilkins has resigned as publisher and deputy general manager of Thorpe-Bowker. He will leave the company on... Read more |
At one of the opening sessions at this year’s London Book Fair (LBF), a number of Australian publishers have called for an end to British... Read more |
The Gourmand Awards for 2008 have been presented at a ceremony in London, with seven Australian food and wine books receiving prizes, placing Australia ‘in... Read more |
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlist was announced today. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for fiction ($20,000): Diary of a... Read more |
Biographies of Napoleon and two of ‘history’s nobodies’ have been named joint winners of this year’s National Biography Award. University of Newcastle historian Philip Dwyer... Read more |
Australian journalist Caroline Overington has won this year’s $30,000 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for her account of the $290 million Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.... Read more |
This year’s shortlists for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers and the Dobbie Encouragement Award have been announced. Shortlisted for the awards... Read more |
Author Garth Nix looks set to bring his novel Sabriel to the big screen, with plans the possible film of the first book in the... Read more |
The Australia Council’s market development section has reiterated its commitment to ‘an increased investment in literature that responds to the growth and current momentum of... Read more |
Lonely Planet has launched a travel channel on YouTube. Located at www.youtube.com/lonelyplanet, the channel will feature the best of the travel videos currently showing on... Read more |
The recently established Australian Poetry Centre will host its inaugural National Festival in Castlemaine, Victoria, this Anzac Day weekend. Each year the festival will move to... Read more |
Dymocks has reopened its ‘bigger and better’ Doncaster store after renovations. The ultra-modern design is intended to complement the ‘new contemporary look’ of the Westfield... Read more |
The winner of the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards were announced at the Bologna Book Fair on 31 March. This year the author award went... Read more |
Fourteen children’s authors, including J K Rowling, Michael Morpugo, Judy Blume and R L Stein, have written an open letter calling for politicians to ‘act... Read more |
New NZ book review websiteNZ-based Scoop Media has launched The Scoop Review of Books online at http://books.scoop.co.nz. The site, edited by Jeremy Rose, will promote... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ‘Misha’ publisher fights to overturn US$33 million judgement Penguin frontlist goes... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: London Book Fair ends today, 16 April To view these... Read more |
This Charming Man, the new offering from Marian Keyes–the Irish writer who can do no wrong in the chick-lit world–takes top spot in the Highest... Read more |
‘I spend more on alcohol and catering than I ever have on placing an ad in the newspaper’–ABA president and Avid Reader proprietor Fiona Stager... Read more |
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Australian historian and writer Greg Dening who was described an ‘inspiring teacher and passionate scholar’ has died aged 76.
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