Gordon and Gotch has announced that the three principals of book distributor The Scribo Group–Gary Cobbledick, Michael Rakusin and Dale Druckman–will be leaving the business.... Read more |
REDGroup Retail has announced a restructure of its support offices, with the Borders and Angus & Robertson teams relocating to one office in the CBD... Read more |
Toyoko Sugiwaka was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year for the book Another Time Past Created (Murdoch Books) at this year’s... Read more |
This year’s Sydney Writers Festival wound up on Sunday 24 May, having run from Monday 18 May. While many at this year’s festival commented that... Read more |
Indigenous Literacy Day patron Therese Rein yesterday launched a new early childhood literacy program that will see sets of board books being given to all... Read more |
The Coalition for Cheaper Books, which includes the Dymocks bookselling chain, has released a price comparison of a number of books by authors who appeared... Read more |
Carleen Bryant, the mother of Martin Bryant, is reportedly suing Fairfax Media over the publication of Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making of a... Read more |
Ben Naparstek, a 23-year-old, Melbourne-based recent university graduate, has been named the new editor of the Monthly. Morry Schwartz, publisher of the Monthly, told the... Read more |
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program was again an important part of the Sydney Writers Festival (the annual VIP program alternates between the... Read more |
Alexandra Nahlous was announced as the winner of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on Thursday 21 May. The Fellowship will... Read more |
After 20 year, distribution of Phaidon Press titles is moving from Bookwise to Penguin/UBD. Penguin Books, in conjunction with United Book Distributors, will be taking... Read more |
A new creative writing initiative in Victoria–the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards–was announced at the opening night of the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne on... Read more |
Sydney-based author Julia Leigh has won the £10,000 ($A20,383) Encore Award for a second novel for Disquiet (Penguin). Leigh beat out an international shortlist for... Read more |
Kate De Goldi has been awarded the 2009 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for The 10pm Question (A&U), announced in a ceremony... Read more |
Alison Croggon, poet, author, and Melbourne theatre critic for the Australian and the blog Theatre Notes, has been awarded the 2009 Pascall Critic of the... Read more |
Schools program–Melbourne Writers’ FestivalThe Melbourne Writers’ Festival (MWF) has announced that its school program will take place in Federation Square from Monday 24 to Wednesday... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Alice Munro wins Booker International Publishing the booziest profession Ingram consolidates... Read more |
In rights news this week: FictionAllen & Unwin has sold US rights to Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas to Penguin (Viking),... Read more |
‘In every company every year there were Australian books that were published that everyone knew would not make money. And they were published because those... Read more |
Jane Curry Publishing delivers the goods this week as My Mum’s Got Cancer takes pole position in the Highest New Entry charts. Written by Lucy... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Emerging Writers’ Festival, Melbourne, 22-31 May Bayside Literary Festival... Read more |
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David Herbert Donald, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Lincoln, has died, aged 88.
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