Vale Jeannine Fowler
Monday, 17 March 2025
Jeannine Fowler, former publicity director at Pan Macmillan Australia, has died. Pan Macmillan publicity and marketing director Tracey Cheetham writes: Pan Macmillan Australia is profoundly saddened to advise of the...
Remembering Michael Webster
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
More tributes have come in, after the passing of publisher, academic, and distinguished industry professional Michael Webster. University of Melbourne head of program, publishing & communications Katherine Day writes: We...
Remembering Michael Webster
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Publisher, editor and academic Michael Webster has died. A memorial for Webster will be held on Sunday, 16 February at 10.30am at the Hawthorn Rowing Club. Credit: Debora Webster-Bain
Vale Michael Webster
Friday, 31 January 2025
Publisher, editor and academic Michael Webster has died. Webster had a long and distinguished career in the Australian publishing industry, with roles as a publisher, academic, and board member. He...
Vale Kerri Lane
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Author Kerri Lane, who also wrote as Kaz Delaney, has died. Across both pseudonyms, Lane wrote more than 70 novels for children, young adults, and adult readers. Lane was an...
Vale Brenda Walker
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The author Brenda Walker has died. Walker was the author of the novels Crush, One More River, Poe’s Cat and The Wing of Night. The latter won the 2006 Nita B Kibble Award for...
Vale John Marsden
Monday, 13 January 2025
Author and teacher John Marsden has died. Marsden was born in 1950 in Melbourne and grew up primarily in Victoria and Tasmania before beginning a teaching career. While working at...
Vale Robert Hillman
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Author Robert Hillman has died. Text Publishing writes: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert Hillman. Robert published more than 60 works of fiction and...
Vale Susan Duncan
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Journalist and author Susan Duncan has died. Allen & Unwin writes: The much-admired and respected journalist and writer Susan Duncan died last weekend at her beloved home on Pittwater. Susan was...
Vale Gemma Carey
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Australian author and academic Gemma Carey has died. Carey was director of the Centre for Social Impact University of New South Wales, where she undertook primary research in governance and...
Vale Barney Rivers
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Former publisher Brian John ‘Barney’ Rivers has died, aged 86. Former Australian Publishers Association president and John Wiley & Sons managing director Peter Donoughue writes: Barney Rivers has died after a...
Vale George Negus
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Broadcaster and author George Negus has died, aged 82. Negus worked as a school teacher, before becoming a newspaper reporter, then moving to television journalism. Specialising in international affairs, Negus...
Vale Nicky Byam Shaw
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Former Macmillan Publishers CEO and chair Nicholas 'Nicky' Byam Shaw has died, aged 90. Pan Macmillan Australia and New Zealand managing director Praveen Naidoo writes: Nicky was a vitally important...
Vale Stephen Matthews
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Publisher Stephen Matthews has died, aged 78. Matthews founded the independent publisher Ginninderra Press in 1996 in Canberra, later moving to Adelaide. He received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM)...
Vale Barbara Mobbs
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Literary agent Barbara Mobbs has died, aged 81. Jane Novak, of Jane Novak Literacy Agency, writes: Barbara Mobbs was a giant of our industry. A formidable agent, she had worked...
Vale Greg Malouf
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Chef and author Greg Malouf has died, aged 64. Born in Melbourne to Lebanese parents, Malouf worked to develop modern Middle Eastern cuisine in Australia. He built his reputation at...
Vale Louise Thurtell
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Former Allen & Unwin publisher Louise Thurtell, who also worked at HarperCollins, Transworld and Random House, has died. Thurtell worked in the Australian book publishing industry for more than 30...
Tim Bowden remembered
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Broadcaster, journalist, oral historian and author Tim Bowden has died, aged 87. Rebecca Kaiser, Bowden’s publisher across 10 books at Allen & Unwin, writes: Over the nearly 25 years that we were...
Vale Tim Bowden
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Television and radio broadcaster and author Tim Bowden has died, aged 87. Bowden was the author of almost 20 books, including One Crowded Hour (1987, Angus & Robertson), a biography...
Vale Peg McColl
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Former Penguin Books Australia rights and contracts manager Peg McColl died on 19 August. Bob Sessions, Penguin Books Australia publishing director from 1988 to 2017, writes: It is with great...
Vale Lynne Spender
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Feminist writer and legal advocate Lynne Spender has died, aged 77. Spinifex Press director Susan Hawthorne writes: I met Lynne Spender in 1987 through my role as an editor at...
Vale Michael Mosley
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
British television personality, medical journalist and author Michael Mosley has died, aged 67. As an advocate for intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, Mosley wrote the Fast 800 series of books...
Vale Mark Johnson
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Bookseller Mark Johnson, longtime proprietor of Forest Bookshop, Forestville, NSW, died on Anzac Day, aged 86 years. Johnson was the partner of Max Oliver of Lindfield Bookshop, who died three...
Vale Geoff Selig
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Executive director of IVE Geoff Selig has died. Print21 writes: The print community is reeling, as it mourns the passing of industry titan Geoff Selig, executive chair of IVE, who...
Vale Kate Callingham
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Arts worker Kate Callingham died in an accident on Saturday 27 April, aged 39. Among various roles, Callingham was a steering committee member for the Blak & Bright festival, a...
Vale June Factor
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Folklorist, social historian and author June Factor has died, aged 87. Factor was the compiler of a list of 1980s children’s schoolyard rhyming books published by Brolly Books, including Far...
Vale Max Oliver
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Max Oliver, the founder of Lindfield Bookshop, which operated for 46 years until 2019, died on 4 April at the age of 81. From the Sydney Morning Herald: Much loved...
Vale Marion Halligan
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
The award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer Marion Halligan died in Canberra on 19 February, aged 83. Halligan was the author of 11 novels, five short story collections, and...
Vale Tom Whitton
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Jodie Dalglish, owner of Megalong Books, writes: We are very sad to report that we have lost a member of our Megalong Books family. Tom Whitton has sadly passed away....
Vale Jim Hart
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Jim Hart, a former company director and co-owner of Lonely Planet, editor at Rigby, and former vice-president of the Small Press Network, died on Monday 15 January. Lonely Planet founder...
