In the past week the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has met with both Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett and Brett Gale, chief of staff... Read more |
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Vintage) has been named the winner of a public poll to determine the ‘Best of the Booker’. Rushdie’s novel beat... Read more |
Germaine Greer and Augusten Burroughs will open this year’s Melbourne Writers’ Festival. Greer, whose essay On Rage is due to be published by MUP in... Read more |
Frances Fyfield was announced the winner of the £20,000 (A$39,000) Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Blood From Stone (Little, Brown) at an awards ceremony... Read more |
After a long process of refinement the first accreditation examination for editors wishing to be accredited by the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) is scheduled... Read more |
The Waverley Council’s literature award, formerly known as the Westfield/Waverley Library Award will now be known as ‘The Nib’: CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature.... Read more |
The BBC, which last year acquired a 75% controlling share in Lonely Planet, has released its annual report, which shows the travel publisher made a... Read more |
Call to ban Nitschke bookThe sisters of an Australian woman who committed suicide using the drug Nembutal, have called on Attorney-General Robert McClelland to ban... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog this week: The UK publication Publishing News announces it is to close Random House sells... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Crime and Justice Festival, Melbourne, 18-20 July Melbourne Festival of... Read more |
It’s a female-centric Highest New Entries chart this week with Lipstick Jungle, Sex Lives of Australian Women and The Low GI Diet making the cut... Read more |
Novelist and founding member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Sue Alexander has died, she was 74. Her books included Behold... Read more |
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Dutch novelist Janwillem van de Wetering, best known for his ‘Amsterdam Cops’ series, has died, he was 77.
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Publisher and author Francis ‘Phil’ Englehardt, Jr., has died at the age of 53. He founded Revolution Booksellers in the US and wrote MotorcycleMan: Restless... Read more |
Author Hila Colman, who wrote more than 50 books for young adults, has died aged 98. Some of her titles included; The Girl from Puerto... Read more |
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