ABC journalist Mark Willacy won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disasters in Japan. In the years since... Read more
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The book that comes to mind on having finished Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. They share nothing much in common; Mr Wigg is set... Read more
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Bronwyn Parry’s Dead Heat (Hachette) has been nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Awards in the Single Title Romantic Mystery/Suspense category of the published division. The winners... Read more
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New Zealand poet and fiction writer Sue Wootton has won second place in the 2013 Open International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for her... Read more
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The ABC has announced that it is working on a television miniseries adaptation of Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (Text). The adaptation is being developed by producers Stephen Luby... Read more
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Penguin has announced that it will take its School of Popular Writing, a one-day seminar for aspiring writers of commercial fiction, to Sydney. The seminar, which... Read more
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Screen Australia has announced script development funding for a film adaptation of Susanne Gervay’s book I Am Jack (HarperCollins). Gervay will write the film script for I Am Jack, with director... Read more
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New library opens on the Gold Coast A new library opened in the Gold Coast suburb of Upper Coomera in Queensland on 29 April. The... Read more
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Books by Matthew Reilly and Mem Fox have topped the 2011-12 lists of the highest scoring titles in the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational... Read more
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Public libraries across New South Wales will receive $2.5 million in grants in the latest round of the 2013 Library Development Grants and Country Libraries... Read more
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ProQuest completes EBL acquisition ProQuest has announced the completion of its acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL) from the Ebook Corporation. The EBL platform offers approximately 300,000 ebooks from... Read more
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A number of Australian libraries are participating in the Big Library Read project, a two-week ebook data experiment run by OverDrive and Sourcebooks. As previously... Read more
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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Love2Read campaign have announced the winners of the Australia’s Favourite Librarian competition. The overall winner is... Read more
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Collections from the National Library of Australia and state and territory libraries in Victoria, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia are among... Read more
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In the second instalment in our series of opinion pieces from booksellers, Embiggen Books co-owner Warren Bonett argues that the publishing industry could do more to promote books... Read more
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In a speech delivered at a publishers’ conference in the UK earlier this year, the Bookseller’s editor Phillip Jones argued that ‘bookshops can help themselves.... Read more
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Katie Harford, program officer for market development at the Australia Council for the Arts, is on maternity leave, and will return to her role in... Read more
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Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a number of recent staff changes. Editor Rebecca Starford and deputy editor Hannah Kent have moved into... Read more
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Sam Cooney has joined the Small Press Network (SPN) in the part-time role of program manager. Cooney, who is also the editor of The Lifted... Read more
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Sophie Masson has been re-elected as chair and David Day as treasurer of the Australian Society of Authors board. (See news.)
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Michael White has been appointed to the newly created position of head of international publishing at HarperCollins. White’s appointment follows the departure of former head... Read more
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Wendy Harrex has retired as publisher at Otago University Press in Dunedin, New Zealand, after 20 years in the role. Rachel Scott, formerly the publisher of Canterbury University... Read more
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The Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. will present a talk on Editing skills in the era of digital (r)evolution with Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya on Tuesday... Read more
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Editors Victoria is running a professional development session on Advanced Microsoft Word 2011 for Editors (Mac), on Saturday June 8. Much of an editor’s job involves repetitive... Read more
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On Saturday 29 June Editors Victoria is running the professional development session Punctuation Refresher for Writers and Editors. This workshop is designed as a refresher for those... Read more
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Due to renovations, the Newtown office of Walker Books Australia will be closed for 5 days from 27th May to the 3rd June. Staff will be working remotely, and should be contactable by e-mail and phone calls will be re-routed. Thank you for your patience.
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Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate Bronwyn Parry on Dead Heat being a finalist in the Single-Title category of the Daphne du Maurier Award. The winners will be announced on July 18 at the RWA national conference.
To order copies of Dead Heat (ISBN: 9780733625497) please contact Alliance Distribution Services customer service on toll-free fax 1800-664-477 or tel (02) 4390-1300.
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Finch Publishing congratulates Marie Williams on winning the 2013 Finch Memoir Prize for her heartbreaking yet inspiring story of family love, hope and tragedy, Green Vanilla Tea.
The book is available immediately through our distributors HarperCollins Australia. ISBN: 9781921462993. RRP: $24.99
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Scholastic Australia would like to congratulate Nick Bland for winning the Book of the Year for Younger Children 2013 at the Australian Industry Book Awards for his fabulous picture book, The Very Hungry Bear published by Scholastic Press (ISBN 9781742831701).
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