Christmas is fast approaching and it just wouldn’t be the same without a review of the year that was–and wasn’t–with The Chaser Annual 2010. This... Read more |
David Foster is the winner of this year’s Patrick White Literary Award. Foster is the author of more than 12 novels, as well as nonfiction... Read more |
A number of Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Australian... Read more |
The Adelaide Festival announced last week that Laura Kroetsch has been appointed as the new executive producer of Adelaide Writers’ Week. Festival organisers also announced that Writers’... Read more |
Duncan Johnston and Patricia Genat have been appointed to the positions of first vice president and second vice president of the Australian Booksellers Association Management... Read more |
Paid content on the Apple iBookstore is yet to be launched in New Zealand, despite thousands of titles available for sale in Australia from the... Read more |
Publisher Hardie Grant has announced that it will reduce the Australian prices of books from a number of US publishing agencies in response to the current... Read more |
The winner of the inaugural national Vision Australia Braille Book of the Year Award has been announced. Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) was announced as the... Read more |
The winning titles for the 2010 Young Australian’s Best Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Fiction Years 7-9: Boy Overboard (Morris Gleitzman,... Read more |
Changes to retailing trading regulations announced last week by the NSW Government will have a detrimental effect on small businesses across the state, according to... Read more |
Concerns are growing among Australian booksellers and franchising bodies about the potential introduction of state-based franchise regulations across the country, with Western Australia and Queensland... Read more |
HarperCollins to move in 2011HarperCollins plans to move its Sydney operations to a CBD location by mid-2011. The publisher is currently located in the Sydney suburb of Pymble. New Asia... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: agent speaks out against agency model NYT will... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Avid Reader’s Paul Landymore reviews How It Feels (Brendan Cowell, Picador) as well as When Colts Ran (Roger McDonald, Vintage),... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold The Innocent Mage (Karen Miller) to Poland and Belinda Alexandra’s Wild Lavender, White Gardenia, Silver Wattle and... Read more |
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If... Read more |
‘Nowadays hardbacks that are produced in the UK and here are glued to the spine and often the hardback and trade paperback are from the... Read more |
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Di Morrissey’s novel, The Plantation (Macmillan), is top of the bestsellers chart again this week followed by Towers of Midnight (Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson,... Read more |
Roger McDonald’s When Colts Ran (Vintage) is an epic Australian tale of friendship, toil, hope and history, which is number one on our most mentioned... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW Christmas Party: 17 November Society of Editors Dinner... Read more |
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James Freud, Australian musician and author of two memoirs, I Am the Voice Left from Drinking (2002) and I Am the Voice Left from Rehab... Read more |
Campaigner and author Roberta Sykes has died, aged 67, following a long illness. An activist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights and education, Sykes was awarded... Read more |
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