We Need To Talk About Kevin, an adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s bestselling novel, is told through the eyes of Eva, an anguished mother who struggles... Read more |
The Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher includes 37 reviews of Australian and New Zealand titles published in December to April 2012 and a feature on forthcoming... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble... Read more |
Ebook platform provider Booki.sh has announced that the Mary Ryan’s bookselling chain and the Avid Reader bookshop in Brisbane have signed with the company to... Read more |
Online retailer Fishpond has added local content to its ebookstore by working directly with local publishers. The trans-Tasman retailer, which sells books, DVDs and other... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted authors are: Amy Espeseth (Trouble Telling the Weather)... Read more |
The New South Wales government has announced that it has appointed a panel to review the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the NSW Premier’s History... Read more |
The Book Industry Strategy Group’s final report to government, which was handed over to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr last... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held during the Sydney... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised more than $420,000 this year to fund efforts to improve literacy levels and the lives and opportunities of... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning... Read more |
Arnie Avery by Sue Walker (Walker Books) has won this year’s Children’s Peace Literature Award. The biennial award, worth $2000, is presented by the Psychologists... Read more |
New pop-up stores from Arcade teamDale Campisi and Michael Brady from Arcade Publications have launched a new retail venture and postal service in Melbourne, called Melbournalia.... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Kobo launches ad-supported Touch reader in the US... Read more |
‘This report will not reduce the price of books and will not improve supply chain efficiencies to the extent required to keep customers coming into... Read more |
On Bookseller+Publisher‘s Fancy Goods blog this week Eloise Keating reviews Women of Letters (ed by Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy, Viking); Max Oliver reviews Jane... Read more |
In recent rights news: SalesFiction—Scribe has sold German and Croatian rights in Bereft (Chris Womersley) to DVA, an imprint of Random House and Fraktura respectively;... Read more |
November John Birmingham, Pan Macmillan/Get Reading (Angels of Vengeance) Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Perth. Grahame Bond, NewSouth (Jack of all Trades) Sydney and... Read more |
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In Michael Connelly’s latest novel, The Drop (A&U), LAPD detective Harry Bosch is not far from retirement when he’s handed two cases to solve. In... Read more |
All five books on the most mentioned chart received equal mentions this week. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has published a volume of speeches and... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: National Novel Writing Month: 1-30 November ABA NSW Branch Christmas... Read more |
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John Ivimey, founder and proprietor of Boat Books (opened 1965) and The Cookery Book (opened 1985) has died. Jennifer Ivimey, his daughter, writes: ‘Dad was entrepreneurial in... Read more |
Peter Roebuck, ABC cricket commentator, newspaper columnist and author, has died in South Africa, aged 55. Patrick Gallagher, Allen & Unwin chairman and publisher of... Read more |
Barbara Grier, co-founder of Naiad Press, has died aged 78. Naiad Press (sold to Bella Books in 2003) was once the world’s largest publishing house... Read more |
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