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What's hot in the media - 26 November 2007
29 November, 2007
Jeanette Winterson is trying her hand at science fiction as she travels to outer space in her new novel The Stone Gods.

Walkley shortlist
28 November, 2007
Four titles have been shortlisted for this year's Walkley Award.

MWF confirms highest attendance on record
28 November, 2007
Melbourne Writers Festival director Rosemary Cameron has confirmed that the 2007 festival this year earned the highest box-office sales on record.

YABBA winners announced
28 November, 2007
The winners of this year's YABBA awards--Victoria's children's choice book awards--have been announced.

The Battle for Bennelong by Margot Saville
28 November, 2007
We would like to alert readers to the late December release of The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville's highly entertaining insider's account of Maxine McKew's road to victory in the Federal Electorate of Bennelong.

Book awards
22 November, 2007
Mr Stuart's Track by Melbourne author John Bailey (Macmillan) has been named the winner of the 2007 Westfield/Waverly Library Award for Literature at an award presentation held last Wednesday 14 November in Sydney.

What's hot in the media - 19 November 2007
22 November, 2007
Ian Rankin's Exit Music clambers to the top this week, closely followed by Sri Lankan born -- but Australian based -- Michelle de Krester with The Lost Dog.

Book awards
13 November, 2007
The State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature has announced the winners of the inaugural Inky awards, Australia's first teenage choice book prize. The Golden Inky goes to Notes from the Teenage Underground (Simmone Howell, Pan Macmillan) and the Silver Inky to Looking for Alaska (John Green, HarperCollins).

What's hot in the media - 12 November 2007
12 November, 2007
The Trout Opera -- Matthew Condon's new novel -- was ten years in the making before it made it to bookstores earlier this month.

Andrew Johns book released
7 November, 2007
The new Andrew Johns biography, Andrew Johns: The Two of Me has been released.

Book awards
7 November, 2007
Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear (Cemetery Dance Publications), by Australian author Terry Dowling, is the joint winner of the International Horror Guild's award for best collection.

My Steve by Terri Irwin - new Steve Irwin book
7 November, 2007
My Steve by Terri Irwin (the Australian version of Steve and Me) has been released (1 November 2007).

What's hot in the media - 5 November 2007
5 November, 2007
Eric Clapton has put pen to paper to reveal his experience of 1960s rock and the many personal and professional journeys he took in between albums and concerts.

Big names announced for 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week; VIP program to Adelaide
1 November, 2007
A number of big-name expat Australian authors will be returning home for next year's Adelaide Writers' Week, which has just announced its author line-up.

Book awards
1 November, 2007
Author Susanne Gervay has been awarded the Lady Cutler Award for 2007 by the NSW branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA).

Aussies among 'world's 50 most important writers'
30 October, 2007
Elliott Perlman, Tim Winton and Nikki Gemmell have been included on a list of 'the 50 most important writers in the world' compiled by the editors of the French magazine LIRE.

World Food Media awards
30 October, 2007
The winners of this year's Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards were announced last week in Adelaide as part of the annual Tasting Australia festival.

Westfield/Waverly Library Award for Literature shortlist announced
30 October, 2007
The shortlist of titles in the running for this year's Westfied/Waverly Library Award for Literature has been announced.

'Animalia' to premiere in November
30 October, 2007
The children's television series based on Animalia (Graeme Base, Puffin) will air on Channel 10 on Sunday November 11 at midday.

What's hot in the media - 29 October 2007
29 October, 2007
Irish author Anne Enright has won the Man Booker Prize for her latest novel - a family epic - based in her home town, Dublin.

What's hot in the media - 22 October 2007
22 October, 2007
Perhaps it is the smell of racing season in the air as horsey-thriller Dead Heat by Dick and Felix Francis comes in at number one this week.

German prize for Zusak
17 October, 2007
Australian author Marcus Zusak has picked up another prize: his YA novel The Messenger (Picador) has been named as the winner of the Youth Jury Prize in Germany's Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

Exhilaratingly bleak’ family epic wins Booker
16 October, 2007
Anne Enright was tonight (Tuesday 16th October) named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Gathering published by Jonathan Cape.

What's hot in the media - 15 October 2007
15 October, 2007
Indra Sinha's new book Animal's People topped our Most Mentioned chart this week.

Nobel prize to Lessing
12 October, 2007
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature was announced today in Sweden. This year's recipient is British writer Doris Lessing, at 87 the oldest person to receive the award.

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