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13 March, 2008 Anzac Day is fast approaching. Anzac: An Illustrated History 1914-1918 by Richard Pelvin will be released in paperback this year to coincide with the day (Hardie Grant). 
13 March, 2008 Winter already? Surely not! According to the folk at Women’s Weekly it could be. They have their Roast and Stew cookbooks out in March with a whopping total of 360 hearty recipes to warm the cockles 
13 March, 2008 A Prisoner of Birth, Jeffrey Archer's new thriller set in London, makes it to the top in the Highest New Entries chart this week as well as securing third place in the bestsellers.
NZ Post awards finalists
13 March, 2008 The finalists in the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced.
Horror writers to emerge from shadows
13 March, 2008 The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Shadows Award for the best Australian horror story of 2007
Jefferis Award shortlist
13 March, 2008 The shortlist for the inaugural Barbara Jefferis award has been announced by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA).
Free books for Victoria's toddlers
13 March, 2008 Victoria’s toddlers will receive around 280,000 free books over the next four years, thanks to a $2.1 childhood literacy program from the State Government.
Perth Writers' Festival at home at UWA
13 March, 2008 This year's Perth Writer's Festival, held from 22 to 24 February, attracted ‘over 15000' people according to program manager Katherine Dorrington. 
13 March, 2008 After a record-breaking start, this year's Adelaide Writers' Week continued to draw impressive crowds on its final two days last week, despite temperatures reaching 38 degrees on Friday.
What's hot in the media - 11 March 2008
11 March, 2008 Orange Prize-winner Linda Grant has topped our chart this week with her novel, The Clothes on Their Backs, a story set in London in the 1970s.
Wrap up: Adelaide Writers' Week
11 March, 2008 The 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week has wrapped up. The crowds were slightly smaller on Friday - probably because most attendees were recovering from heat stroke and dehydration from the four preceding days
2008 Kiriyama finalists announced
6 March, 2008 The 10 finalists in this year's Kiriyama Prize have been announced.
Australian talent heads to China
6 March, 2008 Seven leading Australian writers will be in China from 9 to 14 March for ‘Australian Writers Week'--an inaugural series of talks, workshops and forums sponsored by the Australian Embassy.
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced
6 March, 2008 Poet John Tranter has taken out the South Australian Premier's Award, announced as part of the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
Adelaide Writers' Week breaking records despite heat
6 March, 2008 The 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week got off to a 'record-breaking' start on Sunday, with visiting ex-pat Germaine Greer drawing an adoring crowd--and sales of her most recent book Shakespeare's Wife (Bloomsbury) helping the festival bookshop to its best opening day ever. 
5 March, 2008 Well, I thought the crowds were good for day 2, but star acts Geraldine Brooks and Peter Carey attracted much greater numbers to the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in Adelaide on Tuesday 4 March - again in spite of the extreme heat as temperatures hovered around 35 degrees. 
4 March, 2008 This month we're giving away a copy of Geraldine Brooks' new novel People of the Book, signed by the author at the Adelaide Writers' Week. 
3 March, 2008 Fiction has been appearing prominently in the Most Mentioned chart all year, and this week is no different. 
3 March, 2008 After several weeks of mild weather, Adelaide has poured on the heat for this week's Adelaide Writer's Week, part of the wider Adelaide Festival of Arts. 
29 February, 2008 Diablo Cody, Academy Award Winner for Best Screenplay for Juno, was once a stripper. 
29 February, 2008 The TV series may have been banned in Victoria, but Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester and Andrew Rule has hit number one this week. 
29 February, 2008 It was a bookish Oscars ceremony this year, with three of the five films nominated for best picture at this year's Academy Awards being based on novels.
Best of the Booker
29 February, 2008 The organisers of the Man Booker Prize have announced that a one-off Best of the Booker award will be presented this year to ‘the best novel to have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1969.'
Ditmar Awards shortlist announced
29 February, 2008 The shortlist for the 2008 Australian Science Fiction Awards (also known as the Ditmars) has been announced. |
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