Be one of first to see Elegy starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley, based on the book The Dying Animal by Philip Roth. As a... Read more |
The regional winners of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize have been announced. From a list of over 350 books, the four international judging panels have... Read more |
The Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist for 2009 has been announced. It consists of: Addition (Toni Jordan, Text) A Fraction of the Whole (Steve Toltz,... Read more |
The Western Australian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has frozen the assets of Kingsley Flett, the co-author of Shadow Warrior, which details the criminal activities... Read more |
Angus & Robertson (A&R) will launch a new and updated website in April, to be followed by similarly updated sites for Whitcoulls in New Zealand... Read more |
The government-funded Books Alive campaign will run in September rather than August this year and will feature a series of television commercials promoting the initiative.... Read more |
Fiona Stager, co-owner of Avid Reader Bookshop and president of the Australian Booksellers Association, has won the 2009 Johnno Award, administered by the Queensland Writers... Read more |
The Australian Shadows Award, Australia’s top horror fiction award, has gone to Western Australian author Lee Battersby for his novelette ‘The Claws of Native Ghosts’... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced it will be ‘branching out into the exciting world of children’s book publishing’, and will be sourcing illustrations for one of... Read more |
The Australia Council has announced a new initiative to support artists in creating residencies with non-arts businesses and industries. Connections Residency program is open to... Read more |
A new publishing scholarship has been announced in New Zealand. The scholarship, endowed by the late Andrew Mason, who died in January, is in memory... Read more |
Goodall and Brophy joint winners of 2009 Calibre PrizeJane Goodall and Kevin Brophy are the joint winners of this year’s Calibre Prize for essay writing.... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our around the world blog in the past week: Ebook gift cards: a good idea made too complex? Ebook... Read more |
In rights news this week: FictionAllen & Unwin has sold Commonwealth Writers’ Prize South East Asia and Pacific region winner The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas to... Read more |
‘Let me be clear. Absolutely clear. Not one word spoken in that session, either from the panelists or from the audience, was new or innovative.... Read more |
Raymond E Feist’s Wrath of a Mad God is number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week. It apparently contains the ‘cataclysmic end’... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Somerset Celebration of Literature, Mudgeeraba, QLD, 16-20 March Australian Copyright... Read more |
New Zealand editor Andrew Mason has died. Mason was literary editor of the Listener from 1981 to 1991, and worked for Bridget Williams Books. He... Read more |
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