HarperCollins has announced the appointment of former Sydney Morning Herald journalist Michael Visontay as publisher of the newly formed ABC Books division of HarperCollins. Visontay... Read more |
Former bookseller and two-time Australian Booksellers Association ABA president Jean Ferguson has been recognised with a medal in the general division (OAM) in this year’s... Read more |
The winning Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror titles in this years Aurealis Awards have been announced. The 13th annual Aurealis Awards ceremony was held... Read more |
On the Jellicoe Road (known as Jellicoe Road in the US) by Melina Marchetta (Viking) has won the 2009 Michael L Printz Award in the... Read more |
The Productivity Commission has now received more than 120 submissions to its study on the laws governing the parallel importation of books in Australia. The... Read more |
I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale (Longacre Press) has won the 2009 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award in New Zealand. Established in 1997 to commemorate... Read more |
The recipients of some of the most prestigious awards in children’s literature were announced on 26 January at an American Library Association mid-winter meeting in... Read more |
Four books have been shortlisted for the 2008 Blake Dawson prize for business literature. They are Rupert’s Adventures in China (Bruce Dover, Viking); Good Things... Read more |
Costco to open at second Melbourne locationSpeculation in Melbourne indicates that the US retailer Costco has secured a second Victorian site ahead of a mooted... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: PW editor-in-chief sacked Barry wins Costa iPhone ‘will all but... Read more |
In rights news this week: Children’sClaire Pretyman at Scholastic reports the sale of The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas (Tony Wilson & Sue... Read more |
‘QBD The Bookshop would be one of the biggest winners should this change happen, as we have the size to source stock from overseas and... Read more |
Unless you have been living under a rock for while–which sounds rather enticing, not to say cool in this Melbourne heat–you will be familiar with... Read more |
US novelist John Updike has died of lung cancer, aged 76. His most famous works were from his Rabbit series, including the novels Rabbit is... Read more |
American poet William DeWitt Snodgrass has died. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for his first book of poems, Heart’s Needle. Selected Poems: 1957-1987 was... Read more |
Les Phillabaum, long-time director of Louisiana State University Press has died, aged 73. During his time at LSU Press he published A Confederacy of Dunces... Read more |
American journalist and author Malcolm MacPherson, has died, aged 65. He wrote Roberts Ridge, reportage about one of the bloodiest battles of the war in... Read more |
British poet John Fairfax, who co-founded the creative writing community Arvon, has died, aged 78. Fairfax wrote Bone Harvest Done and Adrift on the Star-brow... Read more |
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American psychologist and author Stanley Fisher has died, aged 81. Fisher was the author of Discovering the Power of Self-Hypnosis.
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Central Queensland poet and author Valentine Vallis has died. He wrote the poem ‘The Ballad of Changi Chimes’.
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