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6 February, 2008 Oprah Winfrey has announced that the next book to be featured in her influential book club will be A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).
Two Essayists of Equal Calibre
6 February, 2008 Rachel Robertson and Mark Tredinnick are the joint winners of the 2008 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay.
Freeman, Elworthy and Corballis to judge Montana NZ Book Awards
6 February, 2008 Radio host Lynn Freeman, publisher David Elworthy and writer Tim Corballis have been named as judges of the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards 
6 February, 2008 The fastest mover this week, also coming in at number three in the bestsellers, is Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook Deceptively Delicious 
6 February, 2008 Get set... Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Geraldine Brooks' new novel People of the Book has arrived in stores and to help with promotion, Geraldine will be touring Australia in March. 
6 February, 2008 The number one book mentioned this week is Ilana Snyder's The Literacy Wars, which addresses the 'literacy crisis' in the Australian education system. What's really going on in our classrooms?
Bestsellers this week
1 February, 2008 James Patterson knocks Ian McEwan's Atonement off top spot this week
Victorian community history awards announced
1 February, 2008 Jillian Durance has won the main prize at the 2007 Victorian Community History Awards.
Aurealis Winners
1 February, 2008 The winners of the 2007 Aurealis Awards for speculative fiction have been announced.
What's hot in the media - 28 January 2008
1 February, 2008 Australia's national day played a significant role in the order of the Most Mentioned titles this weekend. 
23 January, 2008 Man Booker prize-winner John Banville has set his pen to paper for the second time under the nom de plume, Benjamin Black.
Buy Tom Cruise book in Australia? - try Ebay
23 January, 2008 Following Pan Macmillan's decision not to proceed with the publication of a local edition of Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise, it now seems that Australian booksellers will have difficulties ordering copies of the US edition as well.
Global bestsellers
23 January, 2008 A number of different year-end bestseller lists from around the world published recently demonstrate the wide variety of titles that become successful in different markets.
Newspaper claims ‘dates don't add up' in child-soldier's memoir
23 January, 2008 A story in the Australian newspaper claims that there may be factual errors in A Long Way Gone
Christmas Top Sellers and Disappointments
23 January, 2008 Titles mentioned repeatedly as hot sellers and disappointments by a wide variety of booksellers for during the lead up to Christmas 2007
What's hot in the media - 14 January 2008
18 January, 2008 The dawning of 2008 brings us many shiny, new books, but none that were mentioned more than twice in this week's 'Most Mentioned chart'.
Caldecott and Newbery announced; Clarke on Printz honour list
17 January, 2008 The The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) has won the American Library Association (ALA) 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal--the first time that a novel has won the top US prize for illustration.
Tom Cruise Unauthorised Biography by Andrew Morton
16 January, 2008 Boomerang Books will sell the Tom Cruise Unauthorised Biography by Andrew Morton in Australia.
Blake Dawson business literature prize shortlist
9 January, 2008 Four books have been shortlisted for the 2007 Blake Dawson prize for business literature.
Human rights award for IAD Press title
9 January, 2008 Alone on the Soaks: The Life and Times of Alec Kruger has been announced as the winner of the 2007 Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission's (HREOC) human rights nonfiction award.
Yusuf wins Iremonger award
9 January, 2008 The winner of the 2007 Iremonger award for writing on public issues was announced in December.
Perth Writers' Festival program announced
9 January, 2008 Catherine O'Flynn, whose novel What Was Lost (Scribe, February) recently won the UK's Costa First Novel Award, will be among the guests at this year's Perth Writers' Festival, which runs from 22 to 24 February as part of the Perth International Arts Festival.
Simon & Schuster to publish Benazir Bhutto's 'Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West'
9 January, 2008 Completed just days before her assassination on December 27, 2007 at an election rally at Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Reconciliation is former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's clear-eyed assessment of the nature of Pakistan's relationship with the West, with Islam and with extremism. |
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