John Ajvide Lindqvist’s chilling vampire tale Let The Right One In is about to explode across cinema screens as the US-adaptation ‘Let Me In’. Directed... Read more
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The November issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 25 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, book news, event reports, category round-ups and interviews with authors... Read more
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Howard Jacobson has won the £50,000 (A$80,000) 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury). The award was announced at a presentation... Read more
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The 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday, with a consensus from all quarters that this year’s fair was a particularly ‘buzzy’ and successful one.... Read more
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Erin L. Cox from Publishing Perspectives reports: Tim Coronel, the publisher of Bookseller + Publisher, hosted a panel on Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the... Read more
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The 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The prize was announced in Stockholm on 7 October by... Read more
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REDgroup Retail, owner of Borders, Angus & Robertson and Whitcoulls, has appointed Adrian Jones as group commercial director. Jones will be responsible for growing ‘new... Read more
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The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Chinese academic and writer Liu Xiaobo. Liu, who is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in... Read more
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Wellington poet and creative nonfiction writer Chris Price has been awarded the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. The prize enables a New Zealand writer to... Read more
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Former bookseller and publisher Margaret Hamilton has opened a new centre for children’s books in New South Wales. Pinerolo, The Children’s Book Cottage, is located... Read more
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The Australian Poetry Centre and the Poets Union will merge to form a national organisation at the start of 2011. The two organisations will join... Read more
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The 2010 Citibank Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia last week was the largest in the festival’s history. The four-day festival was attended... Read more
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Online book retailer The Nile has relaunched its Australian and New Zealand websites. The new-look websites, TheNile.com.au and TheNile.co.nz, feature improved functionality, increased presence of social... Read more
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Lighting Source Australian location likely to be Melbourne Ingram president David Taylor has indicated that the Australian operation of the company’s Lightning Source business is likely... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade articles added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Walker Books expands into India How green is... Read more
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UQP’s Kirty Burow attended the Brisbane ‘Women of Letters’ event last week and summed up the experience with a letter of her own, for the... Read more
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As we await the finalisation of Frankfurt rights deals, Scholastic reports the company has licensed the UK rights to three titles: You (Stephen Michael King),... Read more
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OctoberIan Britain, Text (Donald Friend Diaries)Brendan Cowell, Pan Macmillan (How It Feels)Michael Chugg, Pan Macmillan (Hey, You in the Black Shirt)Sally Dingo, Hachette (Unsung Ordinary... Read more
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‘Who thought all us English majors would be spending all our time on metadata?’–Doninique Raccah of US-based independent publisher Sourcebooks, speaking at the Frankfurt Tools... Read more
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Torment (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), the young adult paranormal romance novel and sequel to Fallen (Doubleday), is first on the bestseller chart and highest new entries... Read more
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Ex-Good News Week panellist Corinne Grant has put her pen to paper to describe a messy year of her life in her new book Lessons... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Queensland Writer’s Week: 11-17 October Submissions close for 2011 Finch... Read more
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Queensland poet, writer, journalist and theatre critic David Rowbotham AM has died, aged 86. Rowbotham received the Patrick White Award in 2007.
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Cyril Renwick AO, professor and co-author of The Economic Pattern (Longmans Green), has died aged 90.
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