The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate) is the winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Carroll received the award, valued... Read more |
Booksellers and publishers will come together on two major issues affecting the industry following discussions at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual national conference,... Read more |
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) president Fiona Stager has been re-elected to the position at this year’s ABA annual general meeting. At the AGM, which was... Read more |
Penguin is the 2008 publisher of the year, Scribe is small publisher of the year, Gleebooks the independent bookseller of the year and Dymocks Garden... Read more |
Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke (Viking) was named the winner of the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award at the 84th Annual Booksellers Dinner on... Read more |
Delegates attending the 84th Annual Booksellers Dinner on Monday night were disappointed at the news that Glenn McGrath was unable to attend as scheduled. McGrath’s... Read more |
The second day of the three-day Australian Booksellers Association annual conference on Monday saw exhibitors on 80 stands filling the foyer area of the conference... Read more |
The Big Book Club will be taking authors to ‘some places they wouldn’t otherwise go’ as part of this year’s Books Alive campaign, says Big... Read more |
The Resurrectionist by Australian author James Bradley (Picador) and Addition by Australian author Toni Jordan are two of the eight titles that have been chosen for the... Read more |
UNSW Press has announce it is now the official publisher for the Choice Books imprint. Following an agreement between UNSW Press and Choice (the Australian... Read more |
Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham has been shortlisted for the £2000 (A$4100) CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for crime writing. Robotham was nominated for Shatter (Little... Read more |
De Niro’s Game by Lebanese author Rawi Hage (Picador) is the winner of this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. With prize money of €100,000... Read more |
The finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia’s 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:... Read more |
Books Alive releases ‘Bombproof’ coverThe cover for Michael Robotham’s Bombproof, the giveaway title for this year’s Books Alive campaign ’50 Books You Can’t Put Down’,... Read more |
Among the items added to our around the world blog in the past week: young people think bookshops will be gone in 20 years author... Read more |
‘We need to impose some factional discipline: don’t undermine, don’t back-stab, don’t air your grievances with each other in public’–Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill... Read more |
James Patterson is not sailing close to the wind with new novel Sail, quite the opposite, as his book claims number one position in the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award announced, 19 June The... Read more |
Eliot Asinof, author of Eight Men Out, about the 1919 Chicago’‘Black Sox’ cheating scandal has died, aged 88. He also wrote four other novels, eight... Read more |
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