The July issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine reaches subscribers this week. Inside, you’ll find the usual news, interviews, charts, category round-ups and almost 50 reviews of forthcoming... Read more |
Due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday on Monday 14 June, next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 17 June. The deadline... Read more |
The popular Food Safari series on SBS presented by Maeve O’Meara is a glorious adventure through world cuisine. The success of the television series translated... Read more |
Shirley Walker has won the $30,000 2010 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers for her novel The Ghost at the Wedding (Penguin). Judge... Read more |
The finalists for this year’s Romantic Book of the Year Award have been announced by the Romantic Writers of Australia, with the winner to be... Read more |
Murray St Leger, managing director of McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) in Australia has decided to move back to the United Kingdom for family reasons. Cindy Jones,... Read more |
Text Publishing has confirmed it has ‘almost 150 titles either currently available or about to be listed’ as ePub format ebooks. ‘In the beginning we... Read more |
Following the recent meeting of the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG), group chair Barry Jones told the Weekly Book Newsletter the BISG would meet again... Read more |
A full program for this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) has been announced. The main program runs from 6-8 August, with workshops from 2... Read more |
Designers Sarah Healey, Kalee Jackson and Keely O’Shannessy have been shortlisted for the NZ AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award. The award is... Read more |
Allen & Unwin has announced changes to the Australian/Vogel Literary Award. The winner of the award, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, will not... Read more |
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has confirmed it will not award a winner in its inaugural Young Calibre Prize. ‘We reached this decision very reluctantly,’... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced this year’s Schools’ Program. This year, writers such as Cath Crowley, John Danalis, Shirley Marr, Shaun Tan, Neil Murray... Read more |
Thames & Hudson has announced that sales and marketing manager John Dennithorne has resigned. Dennithorne, who is leaving to establish a new book business, has... Read more |
The Western Australian literary magazine Indigo Journal has announced it will close after the final issue, Volume 6, is published in December this year. ‘In... Read more |
Details of this year’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival (BWF) event for young readers, writers and illustrators, ‘Word Play’–including an online program and booking forms–are now available... Read more |
New iPhone to feature increased ereading abilitiesApple has announced the forthcoming release of its iPhone 4, which tech reporters say will give users access to... Read more |
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: ebooks 29% of US sales for Larsson in first week... Read more |
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, we introduce publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall, who tells us what he’s been reading; we celebrate the arrival of... Read more |
June Benjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior,... Read more |
‘Historically speaking there have always been novels that have captivated a very broad audience […] More books are being sold today per capita than at... Read more |
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Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie used their own bodies as laboratories when writing about pollution in the modern world. The result is Slow Death by... Read more |
Reviewers continue to pore over David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre), which gained top spot in our Media Extra most mentioned... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Henry Lawson Festival of Arts: 9-14 June ABA Training–Brisbane: 14-17... Read more |
Writer Maria Quinn has died. Quinn was author of The Gene Thieves (HarperVoyager), winner of the 2007 Todhunter Literary Award and recipient of a Varuna... Read more |
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Poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg’s partner for more than 30 years, has died aged 76.
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Andrei Voznesensky, one of Soviet Union’s most celebrated poets of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 77.
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