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Info BankWelcome to the Boomerang Books Info Bank! Here you will find all the latest book industry news, book reviews, bestseller and new release information. Use the links in the column on the right hand side to navigate your way through the Info Bank. If you wish to contribute an article, a review or some news, please email your contribution to us at contact (at) boomerangbooks.com. Spotlight Article
The prestigious Manning Clark House National Cultural Award for an Individual has gone to Alex Miller, whose most recent novel is Landscape of Farewell (A&U). More Articles
7 January, 2009 In the retail days around Christmas Stephenie Meyer held her Bestseller lead with New Moon and Eclipse (Hachette), followed by J K Rowling’s slim volume of magical fairytales The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Bloomsbury). 
7 January, 2009 Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: the Aboriginal Architecture of Australia (Paul Memmott, UQP) is the recipient of the 2008 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies' (AIATSIS) Stanner Award. 
7 January, 2009 Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia authors Linda Briskman, Susie Latham and Chris Goddard have been awarded the Literature Nonfiction Award as part of the 2008 Human Rights Medal awards.
Byron Bay Writers' Festival date and location change
7 January, 2009 The organisers have announced that this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF) will be held on the new grounds of Belongil Fields, Byron Bay. 
7 January, 2009 The best selling book in Australia in 2008, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan, was 4 Ingredients, selling some 288,000 copies last year (on top of the 131,000 copies it sold in 2007). 
18 December, 2008 Mark Rowlands is a professor of philosophy with a sense of humour, a passion for making others aware of "the wonders of philosophy" (as he calls them) and, for a decade or so, he shared his life with a wolf. 
17 December, 2008 It was, as Alan Bennett tells us, the fault of the dogs: the "bloody dogs" as Prince Philip was famously overheard calling them. 
15 December, 2008 Welcome to the final issue of MX for 2008! 
15 December, 2008 So, Victor Frankenstein had now given us another account of his life and it is rather different to the version he gave to Robert Walton in Mary Shelley's book. 
10 December, 2008 Over the past two centuries most citizens of affluent countries have gained unprecedented freedom and economic independence. |
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