The July issue of Bookseller+Publisher contains reviews of 29 forthcoming titles. To see which ones our reviewers liked best, see the round-up on our Fancy... Read more |
Following the announcement last week that the remaining Australian Borders stores will close down, REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson have confirmed that they will be able... Read more |
The organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair announced on Thursday 2 June that New Zealand will be the guest of honour at the 2012 Frankfurt... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced ‘a raft of key appointments’, following a ‘downsizing and restructure of its workforce’. The changes follow the appointment of owner Matt... Read more |
The longlist for this year’s John Button Prize for writing on public policy has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Disconnected (Andrew Leigh, UNSW Press)... Read more |
Lonely Planet has confirmed that it will create up to 30 new jobs in the UK as part of the restructure of its web operations,... Read more |
REDgroup Retail has highlighted the growth in online bookselling and the pressure faced by Australian retailers in its submission to the Productivity Commission’s public inquiry into... Read more |
The winners for this year’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand, have been announced. The winning... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: LIANZA... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) annual Book of the Year awards have been announced. This year the awards include a category... Read more |
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French and Sue deGennaro (HarperCollins) has won the 2011 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The Wilderness Society announced... Read more |
Random House ebooks are now available through Australian ebookstore Booku and will soon be joined by ebooks from members of the Small Press Underground Networking Community (SPUNC). Booku... Read more |
The Victorian Government’s Young Readers Program will end this month after funding for the program was not renewed in the recent state budget. The Young... Read more |
Asialink has opened applications for its 2012 residencies. The recipients of Asialink’s 2011 residencies and the projects on which they are working are: Andy Jackson,... Read more |
Apple has unveiled a ‘cloud’ service that allows ebooks to be shared more easily across a user’s Apple devices. According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs,... Read more |
Google Books Settlement status conference rescheduled for JulyIn the US, Judge Denny Chin has rescheduled a status conference for the Google Books Settlement for 19... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Gruffalo creator is new UK Children’s Laureate Unbound... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Kate Sunners reviews All I Ever Wanted (Vikki Wakefield, Text); Jarrah Moore reviews Love, Honour and O’Brien (Jennifer Rowe, A&U);... Read more |
In rights news this week: Sales Nonfiction—Random House has sold Thriving (Michael Grose) to China; and Positive Food for Kids (Jenny O’Dea) to Russia. Children’s/YA-–Random House... Read more |
June Kevin J Anderson, Orbit (‘Terra Incognita’ series) Sydney and Perth. Alan Bissett, Newsouth (Boyracers) Melbourne and Brisbane. Tim Bonyhady, A&U (Good Living Street) Melbourne,... Read more |
‘Typically, managers and advisors to Private Equity Funds work in partnership with the management teams of their portfolio companies to help those businesses maximise the... Read more |
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After two weeks at the top of the bestseller chart, the 11th Sookie Stackhouse novel Dead Reckoning (Charlain Harris, Hachette) has slipped to second place.... Read more |
The new novel by Man Book Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower (Atlantic Books), is a darkly comic story of greed and murder in... Read more |
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: Continuum 7, speculative fiction and pop culture convention, Melbourne: 10 – 13 June Woodend... Read more |
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German-born Jewish author and psychoanalyst Hans Keilson has died, aged 101. He wrote The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key. In... Read more |
Journalist and mystery writer Lilian Jackson Braun has died, aged 97. Braun created the popular ‘The Cat Who’ mystery series. Her first book, The Cat... Read more |
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Josephine Hart, novelist and poetry ambassador, has died, aged 69. Hart’s works include bestselling novel Damage (1991) and The Truth About Love (2009).
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