Thanks to Text Publishing, the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away 10 double passes to The Last Station. The Last Sation is a historical drama about... Read more |
Among our reviewers’ top picks of forthcomg titles reviewed in the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine are: The Second-last Woman in England (Maggie Joel, Pier... Read more |
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has indicated that he will add two new categories–children’s and young adult fiction–to the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. ‘We do... Read more |
Author Phil Cleary and his publisher Allen & Unwin have lost a defamation case and have been ordered to pay $630,000 in damages. The judgement in... Read more |
Dyan Blacklock and Stuart Glover have been appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Blacklock is an author and publisher... Read more |
Education Minister Julia Gillard has asked the parliament’s House Standing Committee on Education and Training to launch an inquiry into and to report on ‘the... Read more |
Asialink has announced the recipients of its 2010 residencies. The recipients, the countries they will visit and the projects they will work on are: Kalinda... Read more |
Recent wild weather across three states has caused damage to a number of bookshops in the REDgroup retail chains. ‘We’ve had no luck lately,’ REDgroup... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced a new award to recognise excellence in New Zealand educational publishing. The award will be administered... Read more |
Under the Huang Jiao Tree (Jane Carswell, Transit Lounge) has won this year’s Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year. The award, presented at a... Read more |
Four female poets are in the running for the 2010 Mary Gilmore Prize, presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for the... Read more |
The Somerset Celebration of Literature held its annual school literature festival from 15 to 19 March 2010 at Somerset College in Mudgeeraba on the Gold... Read more |
The 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, one of the the most prestigious international awards for children’s books, has been given to British author David Almond... Read more |
Campus gunman scare interrupts UWS bookshopThe University Co-op Bookshop at the University of Western Sydney’s Kingswood campus was caught up in a drama last week... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: DK’s ‘future of publishing’ video US ebook sales... Read more |
Authors on tour in March include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men) Xinran, Random House NZ (Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) NZ only... Read more |
‘This book is loathsome in its pretence that there is enough material to justify its existence’–former Weekly Book News editor Lorien Kaye isn’t shy about saying... Read more |
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Last week’s two bestsellers Clive Cussler’s The Silent Sea and Belinda Alexandra’s Tuscan Rose moved to second and sixth place respectively in the bestseller charts,... Read more |
Ian McEwan’s Solar (Jonathan Cape), a ‘comedy about climate change’, received far and away the most mentions over the past week, but they haven’t all... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Bologna Children’s Book Fair, 23-26 March Byron Bay Writers Festival... Read more |
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Award-winning author Sid Fleischman has died aged 90. He won the Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy and published over 60 fiction and nonfiction children’s... Read more |
Former owner of Boat Books in Sydney and Brisbane, Meg Field has died after a long battle with cancer. She held the position of Secretary... Read more |
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