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23 February, 2009 This week, Jeffrey Archer's controversial blockbuster Paths of Glory sits atop the Most Mentioned chart.
Chief Minister's NT History Book Award
18 February, 2009 Entries for the Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award opens on 1 March 2009. 
18 February, 2009 On the back of the film The Reader, the book of the same name by Bernhard Schlink hits number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week (see film tickets giveaway for more).
Castlemaine Festival literature program announced
18 February, 2009 The program for the Castlemaine Festival has been announced. 
18 February, 2009 The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) announced the finalists of the 2008 Australian Shadows Awards on Black Friday, February 13. 
17 February, 2009 Books by Australian Sonia Orchard and Iranian Azar Nafisi vie for the most mentions in MX this week.
2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards--call for entries
11 February, 2009 Entries from Australian writers are invited to the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction and nonfiction books. 
11 February, 2009 The Highest New Entries chart holds the most interest this week, as it is the only chart that doesn't feature Stephenie Meyer in abundance, or at all.
RHYW launches online store for special format books
11 February, 2009 ReadHowYouWant (RHYW), a special format publisher, has launched an online Braille bookshop ‘in celebration of Louis Braille's 200th birthday'.
ABA, APA to coordinate industry response to bushfire disaster
11 February, 2009 The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will work with the Victorian government to assist communities affected by the bushfires that have killed more than 180 people in Victoria this week. 
9 February, 2009 Last week, Sonya Hartnett's Butterfly and Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty received the most mentions in MX. 
5 February, 2009 Josie Rusher's Robert Pattinson: True Love Never Dies comes in at number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week.
Braunias and Novitz receive Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
5 February, 2009 Steve Braunias and Julian Novitz have been announced as joint winners of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. 
5 February, 2009 Natasha Lester was presented the TAG Hungerford Award for fiction in Perth last week for her manuscript What is Left Over, After. 
5 February, 2009 New Zealand-born author Ruth Park has been named the recipient of the 2008 Dromkeen Medal.
Campbell steps down as BWF director
5 February, 2009 The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has announced that Michael Campbell will not be renewing his contract as festival director.
Rolley appointed guest SWF director
5 February, 2009 The Sydney Writers' Festival has announced the appointment of Chip Rolley as a guest artistic director for 2010, with current director Wendy Were to return in 2011 following maternity leave. 
3 February, 2009 Publishing's annual quiet period is officially over. 
28 January, 2009 The People of the Book is among the top five fiction titles on the Goodreads book social networking site after the Goodreads team. 
28 January, 2009 Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Viking) has been nominated for an Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of America. 
28 January, 2009 Unless you have been living under a rock for while--which sounds rather enticing, not to say cool in this Melbourne heat--you will be familiar with Stephenie Meyer and her dominance in the charts. 
28 January, 2009 Four books have been shortlisted for the 2008 Blake Dawson prize for business literature. 
28 January, 2009 I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale (Longacre Press) has won the 2009 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award in New Zealand. 
28 January, 2009 On the Jellicoe Road (known as Jellicoe Road in the US) by Melina Marchetta (Viking) has won the 2009 Michael L Printz Award in the US. 
28 January, 2009 The winning Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror titles in this years Aurealis Awards have been announced. |
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