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You can’t understand Australian publishing without knowing about Diana Gribble.
She came to publishing almost by accident. Born in 1942, she grew up in a boisterous, supportive family where the key idea was to chip in. As a child she contracted rheumatic fever.
The Age’s editorial today is about Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet and new owners of Canongate’s former shareholding in Text Publishing.
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Di Gribble, an iconic figure in Australian publishing and culture.
Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, have acquired Canongate’s shareholding in The Text Publishing Company for an undisclosed sum.
Michael Heyward and Penny Hueston are retaining their shares in Text, and Heyward remains publisher and managing director.
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson is on the longlist for this year’s Green Carnation Prize, an annual award open to all LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) writers, celebrating the best of modern gay writing.
Another fantastic riff on Go the F**k to Sleep, this time with Nikka Costa and Jenna Elfman performing it as a rap:
So we’ve seen versions by Samuel L Jackson, Werner Herzog and, of course, the inimitable Read more
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Top 10 Books
1. Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
2. Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés
3. Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
4. After Romulus by Raimond Gaita
5. Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
6. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
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Congratulations to Jeremy Chambers and Adrian Hyland, whose respective novels The Vintage and the Gleaning and Read more
Professor Tim Flannery will be given the distinction of ‘Officer of Saint Charles’ by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco at a ceremony at Prince Palace, Monaco on 7 October 2011.