In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene... Read more
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The September issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 27 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles. Also in the issue, Kate Stephenson looks at the book... Read more
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Woolworths-owned chains Dick Smith, Big W, and Woolworths supermarkets will sell the Kindle ereader. Dick Smith and Big W, which are taking orders online for... Read more
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The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced an overhaul of the way it funds Australian publishers. The board has developed... Read more
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The Productivity Commission has released a draft report on its public inquiry into the Economic Structure and Performance of the Australian Retail Industry. The report,... Read more
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Creditors of REDgroup Retail voted in support of the deed of company arrangement (DOCA) proposed by the group’s administrators at creditors’ meetings in Melbourne and... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has made a number of documents and files available to booksellers in the lead up to the first National Bookshop Day... Read more
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The shortlists for this year’s Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Nonfiction Sydney (Delia Falconer, NewSouth) A Three-Cornered... Read more
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Festival goers were treated to three sunny and warm days at this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF), held between 5 and 7 August. On... Read more
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Collins Booksellers held its national conference in Byron Bay between 7 and 9 August, with approximately 60 members of the Collins group in attendance. Collins... Read more
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The Dymocks store in Burwood, NSW, was named Store of the Year at the 2011 Dymocks national conference, held this week. Simon & Schuster received... Read more
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The titles shortlisted for the 2011 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works are: Primary SchoolBest Student Learning... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2011 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society. Shortlisted poems include: ‘Via Negativa... Read more
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The winners of this year’s Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Esther... Read more
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As reported by Booksellers NZ, the finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award have been announced. The finalists are: Hidden Country: Having faith... Read more
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Crumb pulls out of Australia visitCartoonist Robert Crumb, who was due to visit Australia as part of the Graphic 2011 festival at the Sydney Opera... Read more
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Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: UK government backs major copyright review US publisher... Read more
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On Fancy Goods this week, Bec Kavanagh reviews The Bridge (Jane Higgins, Text), Sarina Gale reviews Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice (Stuart Littlemore, HarperCollins) and... Read more
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In rights news this week: SalesFiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Portuguese rights for When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett); Catalan rights for The Distant Hours... Read more
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August Robert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne. Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers,... Read more
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‘There is no right to profit from speech–not all books or newspapers find markets and audiences–but without a right to try to profit, the liberty... Read more
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Now You See Her (Century), James Patterson’s latest action thriller about a woman who has rebuilt her life after her perfect existence is shattered–only to... Read more
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Since 1989 the Australian wool industry has been cut to only a third of its size. Charles Massy explains the decline of the wool industry... Read more
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Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include: The Friends of the University Book Fair : 6-13 August Romance Writers of Australia... Read more
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Jenni Overend, author of children’s books and poetry, has died aged 55. Her first book, Princess Grandma (1994) won the Australian Multicultural Book of the... Read more
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Nancy Wake, author and decorated World War II French resistance fighter, has died in London aged 98. Wake wrote The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo called... Read more
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Dee Murch, New Zealand book designer and editor, has died aged 39. Murch worked in both a permanent and freelance capacity for New Holland Publishers for... Read more
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Les Kennedy, Sydney journalist and co-author of Sins of the Brother: The Definitive Story of Ivan Milat and the Backpacker Murders (1998) and Granny Killer:... Read more
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