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3 June, 2008 A title James Frey might have found useful for a definition back in the day is How Fiction Works (James Wood, Jonathan Cape, April). 
3 June, 2008 What is it with death at the moment? Last year we had Donald and Myfanwy Horne’s Dying: A Memoir (Penguin), and this month Deborah Crabtree reviews the key Picador title The Household Guide to Dying. 
3 June, 2008 Two very different books, both stemming, in their own way from the same event, reach the shelves in May. 
2 June, 2008 Debra Adelaide answers Deborah Crabtree’s questions about her forthcoming novel The Household Guide to Dying. 
1 June, 2008 It was an experience at the heart of her memoir Unpolished Gem and now Alice Pung has edited a collection of works by other Asian-Australians on their experiences growing up in Australia. She talks to Matthia Dempsey
Bestsellers this week
1 June, 2008 Two very different books vie for top spot in the Highest New Entries chart this week but with somewhat similar subject matter.
Book bites
1 June, 2008 MUP CEO Louise Adler and authors Peter Goldsworthy and J M Coetzee are among several 'prominent figures' who have writen an open letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and NSW Premier Morris Iemma, asking them to 'rethink their comments' about the work of Bill Henson
'Snake and Lizard' wins NZ Post Book Award
1 June, 2008 Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley is the winner of this year's New Zealand Post Book of the Year prize.
Fremantle Press makes e-book available free online
1 June, 2008 In an unusual move for an Australian publisher Fremantle Press has announced it will make e-book copies of Hal Spacejock 1 available free online from June.
'SMH' best young Australian novelists announced
1 June, 2008 The winners of this year's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced during the Sydney Writers' Festival on Friday. 
1 June, 2008 Reuben Crossman was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year award for Movida (Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish, Murdoch Books) at the 2008 Australian Publishers Association's (APA) Book Design Awards in Sydney on Thursday.
Sydney Writers' Festival: Good crowds, more book sales and a little controversy
1 June, 2008 While final audience numbers will not be available for at least a week, Sydney Writers' Festival artistic director Wendy Were told WBN she was ‘thrilled with the success of this year's festival,' which ran from 19 to 25 May. 
27 May, 2008 Three years after Richard Nixon's resignation from office, he was paid $1 million to participate in a series of interviews with David Frost, a prominent television personality. 
23 May, 2008 Somewhat predictably, Tim Winton's Breath hit number one in the Bestsellers and Fastest Movers charts this week 
23 May, 2008 The autobiography of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is to be released overseas and on Amazon by Mainstream Publishing.
Hartnett to take Sweden by storm
23 May, 2008 Sonya Hartnett flies to Sweden this week to collect the Astrid Lingren Memorial Award. 
23 May, 2008 The overall winners of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes were announced on Sunday 18 May at the Franschloek Literary Festival in South Africa.
Prize money doubled at NSW Premier's Literary Awards
23 May, 2008 Total prize money across the 11 award categories in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards has been doubled to $290,000 
23 May, 2008 Michelle de Kretser pocketed $50,000 at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards on Monday 
19 May, 2008 The Best Australian Political Writing 2008, edited by Tony Jones got the most mentions this week.
Indigenous Literacy Day 2008 Wednesday 3 September
15 May, 2008 Did you know that in most remote Aboriginal communities fewer than 20 per cent of young children can read competently, and many will never have seen a book? 
14 May, 2008 Tim Winton's lauded Breath gets pipped at the post by the relentless 4 Ingredients in the Bestseller charts this week
Burroughs, Jones and Sedaris to appear at MWF
14 May, 2008 Lloyd Jones, David Sedaris, Helen Garner and Augusten Burroughs will be among the guests at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. 
14 May, 2008 The author of The Honey Spinner (Murdoch Books), a nonfiction look at honey production around the world, has won the Watermark Fellowship. |
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