The winners of the 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced on Monday 2 November. The second annual award ceremony will be a lunchtime... Read more |
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Mantel’s novel was the favourite to win the prize... Read more |
UNSW Press managing director Robin Derricourt has announced he will stand down from the position in February 2010. Derricourt, who has completed 13 years in... Read more |
The 2010 ‘WorldCon’ science-fiction, fantasy and horror convention, will be held in Melbourne in 2010. ‘Aussiecon 4’ will be held at the Melbourne Convention and... Read more |
Stephanie Meyer has topped yet another chart, with her ‘Twilight’ series coming in at number one on Angus & Robertson’s 2009 Kids’ Top 50 poll.... Read more |
A review of the biography The Making of Julia Gillard (Jacqueline Kent, Viking) in the Monthly has drawn criticism from Penguin publisher Ben Ball, reports... Read more |
A new venture in New Zealand aiming to digitise New Zealand books has so far attracted 300 books from 30 publishers, reports Scoop. New Zealand’s... Read more |
New Zealand Book Month, which runs through October, has kicked off with a gala launch in Auckland, hosted by Buddle Findlay. ‘There’s plenty to get... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has backed the Australian Publishers Association in rejecting a proposed compromise position on parallel importation. ‘We certainly support the... Read more |
Auckland novelist Michele Powles has been named the 2010 Robert Burns Fellow. Powles, the director of New Zealand Book Month, which kicked off last week,... Read more |
iMinds launches ‘MindTracks’New Australian audio publisher iMinds has launched a collection of short nonfiction general knowledge ‘tracks’ that can be purchased and downloaded through iTunes... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Wilson leaves Headline UK after only 5 months... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–Translation rights to The Book of Love (Phillipa Fioretti, Hachette) have been sold to Random House Germany. Text has sold... Read more |
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable... Read more |
‘The pet theory is that the enlightened, the sophisticated, the cosmopolitan, the cultured, the international, the universal attitude is to leave the Australian literary field... Read more |
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol keeps the numerous Stephanie Meyer titles at bay in the Bestsellers at number one this week, Irish writer Marian Keyes’... Read more |
This week was a great one for local authors, among them Emily Maguire. Her new novel Smoke in the Room did very well on MX‘s... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali, 7-11 October 4th IPEd... Read more |
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