Book news

HarperCollins Announces:

After a 40 year career in publishing both in New Zealand and the UK, Tony Fisk has announced that he will step down from the role of Managing Director of HarperCollins NZ in April.

The success of last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair continues for Auckland University Press with the sales of rights to Veronika Meduna’s Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica to CSIRO and Yale University Press.

Science on Ice is an engaging account of how scientists are tackling some of the biggest questions out there – climate change, the origins of life, the big bang – down in Antarctica.

Wellington writer Fleur Beale has won the 2012 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for her outstanding contribution to New Zealand writing for children and young adults.

The award, given annually by the Storylines Children's Literature Trust, is New Zealand's top award for achievement in children's literature.

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‘The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ The great opportunity is where you are.’ John Burroughs.

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In March 2012 NZ Book Month will once again present a lively programme of community events that will take place across New Zealand.

Thanks to Creative New Zealand this year we’ve been able to fund 60 volunteer book activists to make a wide variety of events happen in their communities. Many others are hosting their own, un-funded events too.

For booksellers, March is going to be a great time to jump on the bandwagon and use events to increase activity around books and reading.

Here's what's happening in your local area

Multi-award-winning UK author Mal Peet will visit New Zealand in May 2012 for the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.

Having published over 80 titles with Walker Books, Mal’s latest work Life: An Exploded Diagram is a bold coming-of-age story, and an achingly real account of the individual effects of love, war and global politics.

Surviving REDgroup crisis and not doing badly, thanks.

“To say 2011 in the book industry was tumultuous would be a gross understatement.” – Australian Booksellers President Jon Page (pictured below).

Having survived the Productivity Commission’s attempt to further open the Australian book market to international players in 2010, the last thing the Australian book trade needed in 2011 was more disruption.

A dynamic and diverse group of the finest international and national writers will converge on Wellington in March for the New Zealand International Arts Festival’s Writers and Readers Week.