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7 August, 2008 The shortlisted titles for the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced.
What's hot in the media - 4 August 2008
4 August, 2008 Jim Sharman, international director of film, theatre and musicals, has put pen to paper to tell his life story, entitled Blood and Tinsel: A Memoir. 
31 July, 2008 All those folks who have been waiting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to come out in paperback have rocketed said book to the top 
31 July, 2008 The shortlist for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced.
Victorian Community History Awards
31 July, 2008 The winners of the Victorian Community History Awards 2008 have been announced at Parliament House on Saturday, 31 May 2008.
Byron Writers Festival - success after day one washout
31 July, 2008 The first day of this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival, held over the weekend at the Byron Bay Beach Resort, was cancelled due to flooding and mud on the festival site. 
31 July, 2008 The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) and A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Hamish Hamilton) are among the titles longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. 
31 July, 2008 The 2008 Books Alive campaign started last Sunday, 27 July, with the public release of the 50 Books You Can't Put down booklet and this year's free book, Michael Robotham's Bombproof. 
28 July, 2008 Tobias Wolff, author of seven previous books and editor of The Vintage Book of American Short Stories, has scored the most mentions this week
Robotham book free with 2008 Books Alive campaign
27 July, 2008 The 2008 Books Alive campaign has launched with the theme '50 books you can't put down'. Customers that purchase any of the 50 books on the list will receive a free copy of Bombproof by Michael Robotham. The book has been written by Robotham, this year's Books Alive ambassador, especially for the Books Alive campaign.
Books Alive - The Full List
27 July, 2008 The 2008 Books Alive ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' List will be released to the public in News Limited newspapers around the country this Sunday 27 July. 
25 July, 2008 Harry Potter on the top of the charts again?! Hold onto your hats, it's not a new one from J K Rowling but her most recent--Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 announced
25 July, 2008 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury) has won the 10th Anniversary BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction.
Man Asia Literary Prize longlist announced
25 July, 2008 The longlist for the 2008 Man Asia Literary Prize was announced on Tuesday.
Montana Award winners
25 July, 2008 The Booksellers NZ annual conference concluded on Monday night with the presentation of New Zealand's premier book prizes, the Montana Awards.
Kevin wins inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast award
25 July, 2008 The inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Awards for Social Justice/Human Rights Writing were presented at the inaugural Crime & Justice Festival on Friday night.
Inaugural Crime and Justice festival a success
25 July, 2008 The inaugural Crime & Justice festival, presented by Reader's Feast Bookshop, was held at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent over the weekend. 
21 July, 2008 Four books from Melbourne University Press' forthcoming 'On' series featured in the Most Mentioned chart this week.
New £50,000 writing prize announced
21 July, 2008 The University of Warwick in the UK has launched a new writing prize for ‘an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form'.
Call to ban Nitschke book
21 July, 2008 The sisters of an Australian woman who committed suicide using the drug Nembutal, have called on Attorney-General Robert McClelland to ban Philip Nitschke's book Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill (written with Fiona Stewart, Penguin). 
21 July, 2008 Frances Fyfield was announced the winner of the £20,000 (A$39,000) Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Blood From Stone (Little, Brown) at an awards ceremony held in London on July 10. 
21 July, 2008 Germaine Greer and Augusten Burroughs will open this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival.
'Midnight's Children' named 'best of the Booker'
21 July, 2008 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Vintage) has been named the winner of a public poll to determine the ‘Best of the Booker'.
What's hot in the media - 14 July 2008
14 July, 2008 Murray Bail's novel The Pages has appeared on the Most Mentioned chart for the third week in a row. |
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