While out collecting bottle tops at the beach, a boy discovers an enormous, bizarre and lonely creature that nobody else appears to notice. Feeling a... Read more |
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter (8 December) will be the last for 2010. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2011 will be 12 January 2011.... Read more |
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by COB this Friday 3 December. A full list will appear once only... Read more |
Hardie Grant Books announced today that it has re-released former criminal lawyer Andrew Fraser’s book Snouts in the Trough in Victoria. As reported by the... Read more |
As a legacy of its acquisition of New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls, REDgroup Retail has continued to be listed on the New Zealand stock exchange... Read more |
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article Government discontinues tender process to revise Australian ‘Style Manual’, the Department of Finance and Deregulation has told the... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will increase the allocation to its Cultural Fund, from 1% to 1.5% of the amount of its income... Read more |
Professional writers and editors have expressed concerns over pending changes to the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing offered at Victorian TAFE institutions following a... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Inky Awards have been announced. The Gold Inky (Australian books) was awarded to Lucy Christopher for Stolen (Chicken House). Maggie... Read more |
The newly elected Victorian Liberal National Coalition Government is likely to remove the ban on Easter Sunday trading in the state. In a statement released... Read more |
The longlist for the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The longlisted authors are: Sally Bothroyd (A Cocoa Jackson Mystery) Courtney Collins (The... Read more |
Professor Larissa Behrendt has been named as the 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. Behrendt is a law professor at University of Technology Sydney and... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2011 Tasmania Book Prizes has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Best book with Tasmanian content in any genre ($25,000): In... Read more |
The program for the 2011 Ten Days on the Island arts festival in Tasmania was officially launched last week. The 2011 festival will take place... Read more |
Alix Bosco is the winner of the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand Crime Fiction. The pseudonymous writer won the award for Cut and Run... Read more |
Tim Jones is the winner of the 2010 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature. Jones is a Wellington-based poet and author of science and... Read more |
Exisle Publishing has announced that it will become the publishing and distribution partner for Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) from 1 December 2010. The publishing house... Read more |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has recorded sales growth for the eighth successive year, announcing overall international sales growth of 11.5% in books and journals for... Read more |
Eleanor Marney is the winner of the 2010 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award. The 17th Scarlet Stiletto Awards were presented by actress Nadine Garner on... Read more |
Whitcoulls to sponsor new book awardWhitcoulls has announced that it will sponsor a new annual book award from next year. Entries are now open for... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Authors accuse Project Gutenberg of ‘wholesale kidnapping’ of... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week our reviewer Hannah Cartmel interviews Juliet Marillier on her new novel The Seer of Sevenwaters (Macmillan); Lucy Meredith... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Fast Fresh Simple (Donna Hay) to Germany; Seasons (Donna Hay) to Italy and Get Over It! (Bev... Read more |
DecemberGraeme Base, Penguin (The Legend Of The Golden Snail) Richard Blackburn, Zeus Publications (‘Gatekeeper’ trilogy)Kay Danes, Big Sky Publishing (Beneath The Pale Blue Burqa) Elizabeth... Read more |
‘I understand why people make these buying decisions, as consumers thinking purely about money, but if you care about making ethical buying decisions (and have... Read more |
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The Ugly Truth:Diary of a Wimpy Kid, (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is top of the bestsellers chart this week followed by Australian footballer Ben Cousins’ memoir,... Read more |
Back in the most mentioned chart is Hand Me Down World (Lloyd Jones, Text), about a North African woman who washes ashore in Sicily and... Read more |
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