Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls (ARW), which announced on Friday that it will acquire 100% of Borders’ Australia/New Zealand/Singapore operations, will need to ‘complete a full... Read more |
Brian Murray, head of HarperCollins Australia for three years from 2001, has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins Worldwide, following the resignation of Jane Friedman. Murray,... Read more |
The late James Kemsley, a Ginger Meggs cartoonist for 23 years, was among the authors and artists to receive recognition in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000. Now in their sixth year,... Read more |
The New South Wales state government plans to amend current trading laws to allow all retailers to trade on Sundays. Under existing legislation, most NSW... Read more |
Rose Tremain’s 10th novel The Road Home (Vintage) has won this year’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$62,000). The novel is about an... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at a colourful Caribbean-themed awards in Toronto on 4 June. Notes From the Air: Selected... Read more |
The winners of the Wilderness Society’s annual Environment Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Going Bush (Nadia Wheatley & Ken Searle, A&U) took out... Read more |
The Montana New Zealand Book Awards celebrate the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year. Awarded in the fields of fiction, poetry,... Read more |
Tara June Winch to be mentored by Nobel laureateAuthor Tara June Winch (Swallow the Air, UQP) has been selected for a year-long mentoring program through... Read more |
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week: attendance well down at BEA are e-books any greener than print?... Read more |
‘We quite often have a reputation of being expensive, i.e. selling at RRP. But my buyers and I search around for some great books at... Read more |
Sidney Poitier’s memoir The Measure of a Man has grabbed pole position in the Fastest Movers chart this week. The Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Smart 2009 Conference, Sydney 10-11 June Shaun Tan in conversation... Read more |
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