Our reviewers’ top picks from the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher include books by Craig Sherborne, Favel Parrett, Adrienne Ferreira and Cate Kennedy. For more information on... Read more |
The Federal Court of Australia has this week extended the period within which administrators Ferrier Hodgson must convene a second meeting of creditors for the... Read more |
The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do (A&U) has won the overall Book of the Year Award at this year’s Indie Awards. Do’s book, which also... Read more |
Joel Naoum from Pan Macmillan has been awarded the 2011 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. Naoum was chosen for the fellowship, which is supported by the Unwin Charitable... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has been voted publisher of the year by independent booksellers across the country for the second year in a row. The publisher... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced a new initiative this week to celebrate Australian ‘bricks and mortar’ bookselling. National Bookshop Day will be held for... Read more |
Four Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which will be announced at the end of this... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced this week that HarperCollins Publishers has been appointed to manage all warehousing and distribution functions for the publisher in Australia and... Read more |
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that the date and venue for the Association’s 2011 conference have changed. This year’s conference will now be held at... Read more |
Three independent bookstores in Hobart, Tasmania, and one independent bookstore in Mudgee, New South Wales, are currently for sale. In Hobart, booksellers Ann and Edward... Read more |
Pan Macmillan has announced the launch of its new Australian lifestyle imprint, Plum, which covers publishing in food, wine, gardening, home, design, travel and craft.... Read more |
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced a number of initiatives this week designed to support booksellers by addressing price concerns. The publisher said in a statement... Read more |
Yass bookstore closes down The Little Dog Bookshop in Yass, NSW closed down in February. The bookshop, which opened in September 2007, was the first... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: 2011 Orange Prize longlist announced Borders US to... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week we have reviews of Alan Carter’s crime novel Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) and Jeannie Baker’s Indie-award-winning picture book Mirror (Walker Books),... Read more |
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and... Read more |
‘The interest and growing expertise in the digital field among younger members of the industry bodes well for Australian publishing in our rapidly changing business’–judges... Read more |
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Topping the bestsellers chart this week is Danielle Steel’s 44 Charles Street (Bantam)–the story of a woman whose life intertwines with three strangers after she is... Read more |
Peter FitzSimons’ Batavia (William Heinemann), the true story of mutiny aboard the Dutch East India Company ship which struck a reef 80 kilometres off the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: NZ Book Month: 1-31 March The Bookworm International Literary Festival,... Read more |
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James Herd, media services manager for McGraw Hill, writes: ‘The publishing industry lost one of its most endearing and larger than life characters recently when... Read more |
Author Yvonne du Fresne has died in Wellington NZ, aged 81. Du Fresne wrote several novels and collections of short stories including Farvel and other... Read more |
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