Please note that, due to the Easter and Anzac Day public holidays next Monday and Tuesday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday... Read more |
Alex Adsett attended this year’s Tools of Change conference in New York. Increasingly, as more and more start-ups, developers and entrepreneurs took the stage at... Read more |
As reported in a special bulletin of the Weekly Book Newsletter, the shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced in Sydney on Tuesday... Read more |
The administrators of REDgroup Retail, Ferrier Hodgson, announced this morning that they have reached a ‘truce’ with the 25 Angus & Robertson franchises that announced their... Read more |
REDgroup Retail owners Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has confirmed that its nominees to the board of directors at REDgroup have resigned ‘with effect from 31... Read more |
Australian art critic Sebastian Smee has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Smee, who is the former national art critic for The Australian, was... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced. Bob Franklin has won the long fiction category for Under Stones (Affirm Press) and Kirstyn... Read more |
The content of a number of books written by American philanthropist Greg Mortenson has been called into question by a news report which accused the writer... Read more |
Random House Australia has confirmed that it plans to publish titles under the newly created Hogarth imprint. Random House Australia marketing and publicity director and... Read more |
The Nile offers free shipping in Oz, NZOnline bookseller The Nile announced this week that it is offering free shipping in Australia on all orders under... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK booksellers experience ‘worst March in six years’... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Scott Whitmont reviews Batavia (Peter FitzSimons, Random House), Portia Lindsay reviews Caleb’s Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate), publishing assistant Andrew... Read more |
April Tricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing (The Map of the Soul) Sydney, Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast. Cristy Burne, Walker Books (Takeshita Demons) Perth and WA.... Read more |
‘We judges frankly read too many submitted books that did not have enough textual and structural editing … [many books] were being published too early,... Read more |
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In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Random House has sold When it Rains (Maggie MacKellar) to Taiwan (Complex Character Rights); and The Cleaner (Paul Cleave) to... Read more |
The first three books topped the most mentioned chart with equal mentions this week. Leslie Cannold’s The Book of Rachael (Text) continues to generate interest... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ‘The Waterhole’ – An exhibition of original artwork by Graeme... Read more |
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The top two spots on the bestsellers chart are taken up by Sing you Home (Jodie Picoult, A&U), in first place, and Land of the... Read more |
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