Society princess Lilac LaRoux and war hero from the wrong side of the tracks Tarver Merendsen lock eyes across the room during yet another party... Read more |
What do you do if you wake up in the dead of night to see a spirit standing by your bed … and he’s really,... Read more |
Melbourne Writers Festival director Lisa Dempster has been shortlisted in this year’s Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. Dempster, who has been director and CEO of the... Read more |
The first issue of the Writers in Conversation open-access literary journal is now available. The journal, which focuses on interviews with authors, editors and translators... Read more |
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, reports Booksellers NZ. Catton, whose second novel The... Read more |
The television adaptation of Peter Temple’s novel The Broken Shore (Text) will screen on ABC Television at 8.30pm on Sunday 2 February. The telemovie stars Don... Read more |
Wellington City Council proposes $60,000 funding boost for libraries In New Zealand, the Wellington City Council has proposed increasing its funding for the city’s public... Read more |
The Victorian Government has opened the fourth and final round of funding for its Living Libraries Infrastructure Program. The program gives Victorian councils and regional... Read more |
Pilot scheme allows free access to 1.5 million journal articles at public libraries In the UK, a two-year pilot scheme will allow members of the... Read more |
Rachael McDiarmid has joined library and schools supplier Wheelers Books in the newly created position of publisher and partner relations manager. McDiarmid joined the company on... Read more |
Damian Lodge will take over the presidency of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in May. Lodge, an academic in the School of Information... Read more |
Wade appointed as chair of CILIP council In the UK, Martyn Wade has been appointed as chair of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information... Read more |
New $9.5 million library opens in Bendigo A new public library opened in the regional Victorian city of Bendigo on 28 January. According to the ABC,... Read more |
A number of librarians are among the recipients of the 2014 Australia Day honours, which were presented by the Governor-General on 26 January as ‘national and... Read more |
What ethics should readers be aware of when shopping for ebooks? Alex Adsett lays out some of the options and their consequences for authors, publishers, booksellers... Read more |
Last year ended with a flurry of new ebookstore announcements, including the launch of an Australian Kindle store, an Australian Nook ebookstore and an Optus... Read more |
Rachael McDiarmid has joined library and schools supplier Wheelers Books in the newly created position of publisher and partner manager. McDiarmid previously worked for library... Read more |
Damian Lodge will take over the presidency of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in May. Lodge, who joined the ALIA board in May... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is holding a trivia night in Melbourne. Book industry people are invited to come along to help raise funds for the foundation. Those thinking about attending are asked to spread the word among friends, colleagues,... Read more |
Entries are sought for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2014 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, Australian history, poetry, young adult fiction, and children’s fiction.The awards are... Read more |
futurEDUCATION 2014: What will it take to improve educational outcomes? What can we really achieve using digital resources? Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational... Read more |
Through the Australia Council’s Literature section, grants are available for publishers to raise the profile of mid-list authors in Australia and internationally through targeted support... Read more |
Black Inc. congratulates David Hunt for the shortlisting of Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia for the Non-Fiction prize in the 2014 Indie Awards.
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