While final audience numbers will not be available for at least a week, Sydney Writers’ Festival artistic director Wendy Were told WBN she was ‘thrilled... Read more
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Reuben Crossman was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year award for Movida (Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish, Murdoch Books) at the 2008... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced during the Sydney Writers’ Festival on Friday. The... Read more
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Microsoft has announced it is ending its book search programs Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and that ‘both sites will be taken down... Read more
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In an unusual move for an Australian publisher Fremantle Press has announced it will make e-book copies of Hal Spacejock 1 available free online from... Read more
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Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley is the winner of this year’s New Zealand Post Book of the Year prize. The title, which is illustrated... Read more
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Among the resolutions made at the recent congress of the International Publishers Association (IPA) in Korea was one calling on the ‘Burmese, Chinese, Iranian and Vietnamese... Read more
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Author behind Gun Alley murder pardonResearch by author Kevin Morgan and used for his book Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice (S&S) has... Read more
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Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Hachette UK clashes with Amazon Barnes & Noble CEO keen to... Read more
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Two very different books vie for top spot in the Highest New Entries chart this week but with somewhat similar subject matter. Patricia Cornwell’s The... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Book Expo America, Los Angeles, 29 May – 1 June... Read more
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