As Kim Scott takes out one of the country’s best known prizes, Fairfield Books’ Heather Dyer and Allen & Unwin publisher Jane Palfreyman address the... Read more |
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 22 June, That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year’s Miles Franklin... Read more |
Australian author Tim Flannery has been longlisted for the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Flannery’s Here on Earth: An argument for hope (Text)... Read more |
Federal Minister for Small Business has described his meeting with members of the Australian bookselling community last week as ‘constructive’ and ‘a good opportunity to... Read more |
A recent survey conducted by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has found that 26% of local publishers admit to having no digital strategy. The survey on... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the best designed cover... Read more |
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the best artist category in the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science... Read more |
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books) has won this year’s Carnegie Award, presented each year for outstanding writing in children’s books. The Kate... Read more |
Power and Majesty by Australian author Tansy Rayner Roberts (Voyager) has won the Ravenheart Award for best fantasy book jacket at this year’s David Gemmell... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has advised that former speaker’s agency Show & Tell Promotions has designed a ‘repayment schedule’ to repay authors for... Read more |
Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) 37º South Market has announced the publishers attending and tiles to be pitched at Books at MIFF (BaM) on Thursday... Read more |
Acting CEO of REDgroup Retail Australia Gary Dunne will finish in his position with the company at the end of next month. Dunne has been... Read more |
New publisher Spineless Wonders, which launched with the short story collection Permission to Lie (Julie Chevalier) in April, has announced the establishment of the Carmel... Read more |
New name for ABR poetry prize The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its Poetry Prize has been renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Pottermore website to sell Harry Potter ebooks exclusively... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Toni Whitmont interviews Kim Scott on That Deadman Dance (Picador) and we take a look at the shortlisted titles for... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesFiction–The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold US and Canadian rights to That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador) to Bloomsbury.Nonfiction—Hachette Australia... Read more |
July Tristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose’s Kiss)... Read more |
‘We are a long way from being a post-reconciliation society’–Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott responds to judges comments that That Deadman Dance is a ‘post-reconciliation’... Read more |
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The third book in the ‘Fallen’ series, Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), has risen to the top of the bestsellers chart, in first place, and has... Read more |
Melanie Joosten’s Berlin Syndrome (Scribe), Malcolm Knox’s The Life (A&U) and Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance (Picador) received equal mentions this week. Kim Scott is... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards Closing: 30 June 2011 Prime Minister’s... Read more |
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Sabina Wolanski, Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Destined to Live (HarperCollins), has died aged 84. Amruta Slee, associate publisher at HarperCollins, writes: ‘Long... Read more |
Canadian novelist and poet Robert Kroetsch has died, aged 83. Kroetsch wrote 14 poetry collections, seven non-fiction works and nine books of fiction including the novel The... Read more |
Poet Kerry Leves has died, aged 63. Leaves’ most recent poetry collection, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar, was shortlisted for the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize and... Read more |
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