Joan London’s poignant The Golden Age and The House of Grief, Helen Gardner’s harrowing reportage of a crime that shocked the world, are standouts on the longlist for Australia’s prestigious $50,000 Stella Prize, which celebrates women authors, and which was announced yesterday. The longlist for the Prize, which was first awarded in 2013, also includes three debut writers.
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A new chapter in the on-going stoush between on-line retailing giant Amazon and the French publishing house Hachette, opened this week with Hachette boss Michael Pietsch (left) hitting back at accusations that the company is pushing up prices for e-books. “Hachette sets prices for our books entirely on our own, not…
I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey. There, I’ve admitted it. It’s not prurience. Or snobbery. I just never got around to it when it was the hot topic and after that, well, so little time, so many books. But good, bad or mediocre, there’s no denying its massive international…
There are rich pickings on the crime scene with Graeme Blundell, one of my favourite followers of crime fiction, sleuthing out four new offerings (should that be a massacre of crime novels?) in his popular Crime File. The latest from Garry Disher, who has been producing literary thrillers for decades, is…
E-book prices are likely to fall after the US federal court approved a settlement between the US Department of Justice and three of the world’s biggest publishers charged with price collusion.
But inevitably many see the settlement as a double-edged sword fearing that it will endanger smaller booksellers.