Due to next Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup Day public holiday in Victoria, next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 6 November. Please note... Read more |
Dymocks has announced it will unveil a new ‘branding and visual identity’ in November. The new logo and identity is based on the tagline ‘the... Read more |
The winners of the 2008 NSW Premier’s History Awards and History Fellowships have been announced. The awards were presented by the NSW Premier and Minister... Read more |
Borders will open a new store in Geelong on Victoria’s surf coast tomorrow. The store, which will feature more than 100,000 titles, according to a Borders... Read more |
A booklover with a background in retail, management and software development has launched a new online bookshop, The Mighty Tiny Book Shop. While the store... Read more |
The winners of the 2008 New South Wales children’s choice awards, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs,) were announced on 22 October. Authors such... Read more |
Man Asia Literary Prize shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced. The five books are Alfred A Yuson’s The... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Google to settle Book Search lawsuits Canada again suffers from exchange-rate... Read more |
‘You can’t just retreat … and hide and cower until it’s all over. You still have to assume there’s a market for good books’–Scribe Publications’... Read more |
Nothing like a new Maeve Binchy title to give the charts a shake-up. Heart and Soul by the aforementioned Irish writer has claimed number one... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Debate: Will parallel imports kill publishing in Australia? Melbourne University,... Read more |
Amruta Slee from HarperCollins writes: Esther Deans–author, gardener, cook and poet–has passed away aged 97. Esther’s bestselling books about no-dig gardening had made her a... Read more |
American book publishing executive Dan Harvey has died aged 62. During his career, Harvey created publicity and marketing campaigns for many of America’s bestselling authors,... Read more |
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Novelist Tony Hillerman has died aged 83. His titles included The Blessing Way, People of Darkness and Skinwalkers.
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