Thanks to Madman Entertainment, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of Van Diemen’s Land on DVD, signed by director Jonathan auf der Heide.... Read more |
Did you know Rebecca James, author of the highly anticipated debut Beautiful Malice, is the sister of author Wendy James? Read what Wendy has to... Read more |
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize,... Read more |
The shortlist for the inaugural CAL Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced by judges Kerryn Goldsworthy, Mark Rubbo and Aviva Tuffield. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from... Read more |
Australian author Frank Moorhouse has announced he will boycott a writers’ tour of China in protest against the imprisonment of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo. The tour,... Read more |
HarperCollins UK and International CEO Victoria Barnsley has announced the appointment of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand CEO Michael Moynahan to the Board of Directors... Read more |
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton has been voted the winner of the Australian Book Review’s Favorite Australian Novels poll. ‘A perennial favourite since its publication in... Read more |
Dymocks South Melbourne, in Victoria, and Dymocks Castle Hill, in New South Wales, have closed. Dymocks CEO Don Grover told the Weekly Book Newsletter the... Read more |
Former Children’s Book Council of Australia national president Bronwen Bennett has entered the publishing world with the launch of the new children’s publisher Show & Tell... Read more |
The Jaipur Literature Festival, which ran from 21 to 25 January, attracted more than 20,000 people and more than 200 speakers. Among the speakers was... Read more |
Phaidon creates Wallpaper City Guide iPhone appPhaidon has made its Wallpaper City Guides series available to iPhone users by creating iPhone apps based on the... Read more |
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon vs Macmillan: ebook price war breaks out Apple... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction–Hardie Grant has sold French rights to Meet Me at Mike’s (Pip Lincolne) to Hachette Livre. Children’s–Scholastic has licensed Canadian... Read more |
Authors on tour in February include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from... Read more |
‘Just because a book is out of print doesn’t mean it belongs to Google. It belongs to me. And if I want to sell my... Read more |
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John Silvester and Andrew Rule are household names these days, so it’s no surprise that their latest book Underbelly: The Golden Mile is proving to... Read more |
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The death of writer J D Salinger dominated the book news pages this past weekend as the book world mourned a classic author. Salinger’s most... Read more |
American author J D Salinger has died, aged 91. His novel The Catcher in the Rye is an enduring modern classic. His other works include Franny... Read more |
American historian and activist Howard Zinn has died, aged 87. He published A People’s History of the United States, which sold more than one million... Read more |
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American author and professor Erich Segal has died, aged 72. Love Story was his most famous work, he also co-wrote the screenplay for Yellow Submarine.
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American author Louis Auchincloss has died, aged 92. He wrote Sybil, A Law for the Lion and The Rector of Justin among other titles.
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