This year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday after a thankfully sunny three days back at its ‘traditional’ North Beach site, which had... Read more |
Borders relaunched its Carlton store in Melbourne last week, showcasing a newly designed interior layout. The Borders Carlton store features new children’s, stationery, travel, cooking... Read more |
Dymocks welcomed representives of 70 stores and a total of 200 delegates to its national conference, which ran from 1 to 4 August at the... Read more |
Richard Siegersma has stepped down as CEO of DA Information Services. Marek Palka has been appointed as the new CEO. A statement from DA said... Read more |
Think Australian, the rights/export magazine produced each year by Bookseller+Publisher to showcase Australian attendees at the Frankfurt Book Fair, will this year partner with international... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has announced new franchise owners for its stores in Bendigo and Whitford City. Collins Bendigo, previously owned by Mandy Allen and recently placed... Read more |
The 34th Galley Club Awards for Excellence were held in Sydney on 6 August. Serendip: My Sri Lankin Journey (Peter Kuruvita, Murdoch Books) was named... Read more |
Lili Wilkinson has been announced as the winner of the IBBY Ena Noel Award for Scatterheart (Black Dog Books). The biennial award was established in... Read more |
The winners of the 23rd Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The main prize winner is Wendy Harmer for I Lost... Read more |
New role for HawthorneSusan Hawthorne, co-founder and director of Spinifex Press, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University. CBCA... Read more |
Among the many international book trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: China: digital overtakes print Google: there are... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week we interview Jessica Rudd, daughter of our former PM, whose novel Campaign Ruby (Text) features some remarkable similarities... Read more |
August Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Joe Bageant, Scribe... Read more |
‘As a bookseller I want to be able to provide my customers with the book they want in the format they want. We try to... Read more |
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In Don’t Blink (James Patterson & Howard Roughan, Century) an infamous mob lawyer is murdered at Lombardo’s Steak House in New York and the assassin... Read more |
Jon Bauer’s debut novel Rocks in the Belly (Scribe), about an eight-year-old boy and the volatile man he becomes, gained a great deal of media... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Daylesford Words in Winter program: 6-21 August Walkley Media Conference:... Read more |
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Former Deputy Premier of Victoria Jim Kennan has died, aged 64. The Crime & Justice festival writes: ‘Mary Dalmau and her colleagues on the organisational... Read more |
Historian and political commentator Tony Judt has died, aged 62. UK-born, Judt spent much of his professional life in the US, but his main subject... Read more |
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