In 1971 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson was asked to a meeting of mainly educational publishers, who thought it would be a good idea for Thorpe to start... Read more |
Hachette Australia has announced that ‘a number of redundancies have occurred’ as a result of a restructure of its sales force. The restructure follows a... Read more |
Anita Heiss has won the 2011 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her novel Paris Dreaming (Bantam), announced on 27 September at a... Read more |
A new independent Australian publisher, with a focus on speculative fiction and ebooks, has been launched. Hague Publishing, which will officially begin accepting unsolicited... Read more |
The remaining Borders store at Parkway Parade in Singapore closed this week, reports AsiaOne. The store closed on 26 September, following a 70% closing down... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria (John... Read more |
The State Library of New South Wales has announced that the prize money for the National Biography Award will increase from $20,000 to $25,000 in... Read more |
The Emerging Writers Festival has been successful in its campaign to crowd-fund a special conference in Brisbane in October. The conference, to take place on... Read more |
The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit centre designed to help children and young adults with writing, has announced that it has taken a lease on... Read more |
Some Australian bookshops will receive donations from locals undertaking the UK-founded ‘Sober October’ campaign next month. Initiated by Kirsten Harrison and Stef Posavec, Sober October... Read more |
The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else (Gecko Press) has been selected by the New Zealand section of the International Board on Books for Young People... Read more |
New Brisbane bookstoreA new bookstore opened in Brisbane’s South Bank in August. Scrumptious Reads is a temporary installation shop that sells food and drink titles... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Espresso Book Machine meets Google Books Book Net... Read more |
‘We compile it, print it on our duplicating machine, and post it, all from the office … by editing it myself and having one girl... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, Scott Whitmont reviews Empire Day (Diane Armstrong, Fourth Estate), Amelia Vahtrick reviews Shift (Em Bailey, Hardie Grant Egmont) and Kimberley... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s/YA—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold Turkish rights to ‘The Phoenix Files’ series (Chris Morphew); Canadian rights to Shockwave and Blockbuster,... Read more |
September Diane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the... Read more |
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) is a story told from the perspective of two African-American maids, Aibileen and Minny, who look after a white family... Read more |
Diane Armstrong’s Empire Day (Fourth Estate) is set in Sydney’s Bondi Junction in the late 1940s. It is a microcosm of changing Australia, and life... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Online Retailer Conference & E-commerce Expo: 26 – 29 September... Read more |
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Sara Douglass, bestselling Australian fantasy writer, has died. The author twice won the Aurelius Award for Best Fantasy Novel. HarperCollins writes: ‘Sara was the first Australian... Read more |
Brian Harris, founding Director of the Australian Branch of Cambridge University Press, has died aged 84. Cambridge University Press writes: ‘Brian’s association with Cambridge began... Read more |
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