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Last Year’s Supreme Book Award Winner is This Year’s Top Judge
Last year Chris Bourke took home the country’s top literary honour – the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award – for his work Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. This year he heads up the judging panel for the same award.
Diary of a Kiwi Soldier Wins Children’s Book of the Year
The true story of a World War l Kiwi soldier has won the country’s highest honour in children’s writing at the 2012 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.
Nice Day for a War, by author Matt Elliot and illustrated by Chris Slane was awarded the 2012 New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year at a ceremony held in Wellington tonight. The book is based on the original diaries of Elliot’s grandfather, Corporal Cyril Elliot.
Bookshop of the Month
Dear Reader, The Booklover: same owners but different personalities
The Booklover came first, bravely purchased by at-the-time Random House’s publishing director Tom Beran and his partner Helen Drummond eight years ago in Takapuna’s main shopping street – the intention was for Helen to run the new venture but Tom was persuaded to be more hands-on within the first year.
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Frankfurt assistance on offer from Oratia Media
Oratia Media is offering its services to help publishers, authors and booksellers make the most of New Zealand being Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair this October.
Changes to Oxford University Press Trade sales & marketing
Our promotional and selling cycles have recently moved to a six monthly program based around the publication (twice a year) of the New Title Catalogues for both the OUP Trade/Academic & Dictionaries and the OUP Children’s lists.