Christos Tsiolkas has won the Overall Best Book Award for The Slap (A&U) in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP), announced on Saturday at the Auckland... Read more |
The 2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Award winners have been announced. Nam Le won both the Book of the Year Award ($10,000) and the UTS Glenda... Read more |
RedGroup Retail–the group that operates over 250 Angus & Robertson, Whitcoulls and Borders stores in Australia and New Zealand–has started a multi-million-dollar push to revamp... Read more |
Dymocks will open a new store in the Wellington CBD area ‘as soon as possible’, following the closure of its Lambton Quay franchise on Monday,... Read more |
Random House Australia (RHA) has unveiled its new website in a ‘soft launch’, with bugs to be ironed out in coming weeks and further developments... Read more |
The Auckland Writers and Readers Festival (AWRF) concluded on Sunday, having run from 13 to 17 May. The organisers have called it a ‘momentous success’... Read more |
Eye of the Storm: the 2009 Northern Territory Writers’ Festival concluded on 4 May, having run from 1 May in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Workshops, panels, readings,... Read more |
Publishing 101 and its distributor Gary Allen, has recalled the book 2008 V8 Supercars Yearbook (Wensley Scott), requesting returns of any unsold stock from booksellers.... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced in a unanimous decision. The winners were: Nam Le... Read more |
ABC Commercial has launched a ‘new look’ concept store at Bondi Junction in Sydney. The store, which was unveiled last Friday, is the first of... Read more |
Dymocks has reopened in Brisbane in a small temporary store ‘almost diagonally opposite’ the old Edwards street store. ‘It’s about fifty metres across the road... Read more |
Author and former HarperCollins associate nonfiction publisher Sally Collings has announced the launch of a new publishing venture with her husband Robert Collings. The venture,... Read more |
A new, Australian-owned site called The Reading Room is joining the slate of book networking sites in existence. The creation of Kim Anderson (former Southern... Read more |
The judging panel for the 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary awards has been announced. Six cultural and literary experts will form two panels for fiction and... Read more |
Following the renewal of funding for the Books Alive campaign for another four years, announced in last week’s federal budget, director Cheryl Akle reports the... Read more |
Some of Queensland’s best authors will participate in community events across the state, riding a Q150 steam train from 1 to 6 June. The authors... Read more |
Two bookshops close in LismoreDymocks CEO Don Grover confirmed the closure of the Dymocks store in Lismore in New South Wales, telling WBN the Lismore... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Scribd to open internet store Kindle publishing now open to blogs... Read more |
In rights news this week: FictionRandom House has sold Stillwater Creek by Alison Booth to France (Stillwater Creek is a recent acquisition for Random House... Read more |
‘Good writing exists in public notices or on heartbreaking lost dog posters. It exists where you find it. It is not beholden to its surroundings.... Read more |
As the nights draw in and cats find warm places to curl up (in the southern realms of Australia at any rate), crime lovers and... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2009 Sydney Writers’ Festival, 18-24 May Warsaw International Book Fair,... Read more |
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