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30 April, 2009 Leonie Wood has been awarded the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for Funny Business: The Rise and Fall of Steve Vizard (A&U). 
28 April, 2009 If there's ever a time for Anzac-related books to dominate MX, it was last weekend. 
24 April, 2009 Some big names (and none ending in Meyer) are out in force on the top of the charts this week. 
24 April, 2009 Nielsen BookScan has released sales figures for the first 12 weeks of 2009 (to 21 March), showing that the market grew by a very healthy 6.7% by value and 5.6% by volume, compared with the same period last year. 
24 April, 2009 Random House Australia has announced the publication date of Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol as 15 September, 2009. 
21 April, 2009 There's no clear leader in the Most Mentioned chart this week. 
16 April, 2009 The shortlist for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $42,000, has been announced. 
16 April, 2009 Be prepared to rub your eyes in disbelief when you peruse the charts this week. 
16 April, 2009 While $128,000 in payments have been seized by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, conflicting reports state that Schapelle Corby is likely to be able to keep either $270,000 or $280,000 of royalties from her book My Story, published in 2006 by Pan Macmillan. 
15 April, 2009 If Steven Carroll's recent literary successes are anything to go by, it's safe to say that leaving behind his previous careers in teaching, music and lecturing in order to write on a full-time basis was a good move.
8 April, 2009 Well known chart-busting author Jodi Picoult comes first in the Highest New Entries this week with Handle with Care, which also comes at number five in the Bestsellers.
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival news
8 April, 2009 The 2009 list of writers for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, 7 to 11 October, is almost finalised. 
8 April, 2009 The shortlists for the fourth Irish Book Awards have been announced, and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is included on the shortlist for the RTÉ Radio 1's The Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award.
Williamstown Literary Festival
8 April, 2009 The sixth Williamstown Literary Festival will be held from 1 to 3 May 2009 with the theme of ‘Hidden Life of Suburbs'. 
8 April, 2009 Tracy Ryan is the winner of the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize, worth $4000, for her poem ‘Lost Property'. 
8 April, 2009 The inaugural Tasmania Book Prize was announced during Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island Festival, held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. 
8 April, 2009 Two local titles hit the top of the Most Mentioned chart this week. 
2 April, 2009 Russell Brand, British actor, comedian and former radio talk show host--until an unfortunate incident occurred on live radio--has reached number one in the Fastest Movers chart this week with My Booky Wook.
Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists announced
2 April, 2009 The finalists for the Sir Julius Vogel Award have been announced.
Inaugural Storylines Gavin Bishop Award announced
2 April, 2009 A new Storylines award has been established to give winners the chance to be mentored by author and illustrator Gavin Bishop.
Storylines awards presented
2 April, 2009 Andrew Crowe, the first nonfiction winner of New Zealand's Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, was presented with the award on 28 March.
Books Alive sneak peak
2 April, 2009 Books Alive has posted a sneak peek of an out-take from the filming of its planned television commercial. 
2 April, 2009 Shane Webcke's book Hard Road (Macmillan), which the author last week requested be pulped, will now be published as planned and will arrive in stores over the next few days, the publisher has confirmed. 
2 April, 2009 The five titles shortlisted for the inaugural Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize have been announced. 
2 April, 2009 Melbourne Writers Festival has revealed two of the authors booked for this year's festival (MWF), to take place 21-30 August, 2009. |
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