Thanks to Murdoch Books and Rialto Distribution, the Weekly Book Newsletter has 20 in-season double passes to give away for the second film in the... Read more |
Parrot and Olivier in America by Australian author Peter Carey (Penguin) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. However, The Slap by fellow... Read more |
Sony has announced the release of two new e-ink ereader devices, due to come to Australia and New Zealand next week, and has also revealed... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards has been announced. The shortlisted works are: The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction $30,000 Parrot and Olivier... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Hugo Awards for science-fiction were announced at AussieCon 4 on Sunday 5 September. Local author Garth Nix delivered the keynote... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival has recorded a 10% increase in the number of tickets sold in 2010 and said the festival had ‘maintained record attendances... Read more |
The Brisbane Writers Festival wrapped up on Sunday 5 September after five days of events–and some impromptu African drumming–at the State Library of Queensland. Typically,... Read more |
The Christchurch Writers Festival, which was due to take place from 9 to 12 September, has been cancelled due to the Christchurch earthquake and its... Read more |
The Politics of Suffering (Peter Sutton, MUP) is the winner of the 2010 John Button Prize. The prize, now in its second year, is for... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing Awards were presented at the Melbourne Writers Festival on Friday 3 September. Best... Read more |
Last week’s Indigenous Literacy Day was ‘a day to raise major funds for the Indigenous Literacy Project but also marked a dramatic increase in interest... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced its US imprint Eos Books will be rebranded as HarperVoyager ‘joining together with the celebrated Voyager imprints in Australia/New Zealand and the... Read more |
The Booksellers NZ annual conference, held in Auckland from 29 to 30 August was covered in some detail in the Booksellers NZ newsletter The Read.... Read more |
Dymocks and Murdoch Books partner for design competitionMurdoch Books and Dymocks have announced they are partnering in a cover design competition for Stieg Larsson’s The... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade news stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: will ‘the death of the book’ extend... Read more |
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: reviewer Kate Cuthbert speaks to Kimberley Freeman about her new novel Wildflower Hill (Hachette); Eliza Metcalfe says ‘there’s... Read more |
In rights news this week: Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold The Slap (Christos Tsiolkas) to Italy (Neri Pozza), Germany (Klett-Cotta) and Portugal (ASA Editores); and... Read more |
September Jake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan)Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Elif Batuman, Text (The... Read more |
‘It would still be a viable business. It would be a different business if I was doing half of what I’m doing now. And I... Read more |
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Katniss Everdeen has survived the hunger games twice against all odds, and she’s not safe after making it out of the bloody arena, because the... Read more |
The release of Tony Blair’s memoir A Journey: My Political Life (Hutchinson) has been eagerly awaited both by reviewers and book buyers. In the book, Blair... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Write around the Murray Festival: 8-12 September 2010 Evening with... Read more |
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Magazine publisher Ken McLachlan has died, aged 65. McLachlan became a salesman for McGraw-Hill when he moved to Australia from New Zealand in 1966. He... Read more |
UK graphic designer Raymond John Hawkey has died, aged 80. He influenced the evolution of book covers with his designs of Len Deighton’s titles including... Read more |
Postwar American novelist and writing professor Vance Bourjaily has died, aged 87. His novels included The End of My Life, Confessions of a Spent Youth,... Read more |
American editor Larry Ashmead has died, aged 78. He worked for several large publishing houses, such as Doubleday, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, where he... Read more |
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