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Veg In

Veg In by Flip Shelton, has been awarded Best in Australia in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011. Congratulations Flip!

Veg In

Veg In by Flip Shelton, has been awarded Best in Australia in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011. Congratulations Flip!

Wine, Terroir and Climate Change

Wine, Terroir and Climate Change by Dr John Gladstones, the book that has the international wine world in vigorous debate, has been inducted into the Gourmand Wine Books Hall of Fame 2011. This is the FIRST Australian book to receive this prestigious honour! For further information click here.

Gormand

Dr John Gladstones, wine guru, terroir expert and author of Wine, Terroir and Climate Change is featured in the November issue of Gourmand magazine, the international cookbook review.

Wakefield title Veg In by Flip Shelton is top of the list of vegetarian titles nominated for awards in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2011. Winners to be announced on 6 March at the Theatre Les Folies Bergère Paris.

National Year of Reading

VOTE NOW!

Four Wakefield books have been shortlisted in the National Year of Reading 2012 awards. Congratulations to authors Max Fatchen - The River Kings, Dorothy Johnston - The White Tower, Stephen Orr - Time's Long Ruin and Alastair Sarre - Prohibited Zone. To vote click here.

Pay Pal

From today our website is able to accept payment by Paypal, as well as Mastercard and Visa.

The Premier and the Pastoralist

The Premier and the Pastoralist
James Waite Morgan was interviewed recently on the ABC Radio National program Bush Telegraph. James’s forebear Peter Waite was one of Australia’s most successful pastoralists. Michael McKenzie talks to James about his book The Premier and the Pastoralist: William Morgan and Peter Waite. To listen to the interviewclick here.

Exploring Wild Law

Exploring Wild Law
Peter D. Burdon, editor of Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence, will be a guest at the inaugural WOMAD Earth Station Festival, 4.00–5.00 pm, Sunday 23 October in Belair National Park. Peter's session, Whose Planet is it Anyway, will be presented with Avi Mahaningtyas and Paul Willis from ABC TV Catalyst program.

Red Silk

Red Silk
Elliott Johnston, a great Australian, died on 25 August. Penelope Debelle tells his fascinating life story in Red Silk, published this year and available now, post and packing free.

Unpublished Manuscript Awards now open

Submissions are now open for the $10,000 Wakefield Press unpublished manuscript award (available to SA writers only). Book-length manuscripts of non-fiction, fiction and poetry are eligible. Please see guidleines at the Arts SA website.

Waterhouse Natural History Prize

Congratulations to Julie Blyfield, overall winner in this year's Waterhouse Natural History Prize, Australia's richest prize for natural history art. To see exquisite examples of Julie's work, and learn more about her art, consult Julie Blyfield, by Stephanie Radok and Dick Richards.

SPECIAL NOTE: John Gladstone's Wine, Terroir and Climate Change will be delivered post and packing free!

Nita B. Kibble Award

Congratulations to Annette Stewart whose book Barbara Hanrahan: A biography published by Wakefield Press is one of just three books shortlisted for this year's prestigious Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers. The $30,000 prize recognises the work of an established Australian female writer for a work classified as 'life writing'. The winner will be announced in Sydney on Wednesday 27 July. For further info click here.

SPECIAL NOTE: John Gladstone's Wine, Terroir and Climate Change will be delivered post and packing free!

About Time - SA's History Festival

ABOUT TIME - SA's History Festival runs for the whole of May. Check out the many Wakefield author events around town, including the launch of Images of the Interior, a new book of historical photographs curated by Philip Jones, and the associated exhibition at the South Australian Museum; a speed dating meet-the-Wakefield-author event at the Burnside library; a history book sale at Norwood Town Hall; and a history seminar at the SA Writers' Centre. For more details on any of these events click here.

ABOUT TIME SPECIALS - during May

Buy The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History and get Allan Peters' Recollections: Nathaniel Hailes' adventurous life in colonial South Australia for free ($49.95 the two titles, postage free). Click here.

Or buy John Bannon's Supreme Federalist: The political life of Sir John Downer and Josephine Laffan's Matthew Beovich: A biography for $49.95 the pair (normally $79.90), postage free. Click here.


SPECIAL OFFER - Buy Stephen Orr's Time's Long Ruin and Hill of Grace for just $40 the pair (normally $52.90), postage free. Click here.

Website freight reduced to $6.00


EASTER BAKING SPECIAL - for a limited time buy Linda Bosnic's One Bowl Allergy Free Baking and Liz Harfull's The Blue Ribbon Cookbook for $50 the pair, postage free (books normally $59.95). Click here.

ANZAC SPECIAL - for a limited time buy Andrew Faulkner's Arthur Blackburn, VC, Jeff Hopkins-Weise's Blood Brothers, and Peter Winter's The Year I Said Goodbye for $55.00 the trio, postage free (books normally $89.90). Click here.

SPECIAL OFFER - Buy Stephen Orr's Time's Long Ruin and Hill of Grace for just $40 the pair (normally $52.90), postage free. Click here.

Time's Long Ruin long listed for Miles Franklin award

Congratulations to the very talented Stephen Orr, whose novel Time's Long Ruin is announced this week as one of only nine books longlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. Only weeks ago, Stephen's novel was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

SPECIAL OFFER: Buy Stephen Orr's Time's Long Ruin and Hill of Grace for just $40 the pair (normally $52.90), postage free. Click here.

Red Silk and Great Central State


BOOK LAUNCHES
A communist judge and strange tales of the Northern Territory - two fabulous books launched this week are Penelope Debelle's Red Silk and Jack Cross's Great Central State.

MARCH SPECIAL OFFER: Buy the pair for the special price of $59.95 (normally $72.90), postage free. Click here.

Stephen Orr nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize

Congratulations to Stephen Orr, whose book Time's Long Ruin has made the South East Asia and Pacific regional shortlist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Regional winners will be announced on 3 March, and will then compete against winners from other Commonwealth nations for the overall Commonwealth Writers' Prize, which will be presented at the Sydney Writers' Festival in May.

Readings Ebooks

Readings has just launched a new ebook store in conjunction with SPUNC, the independent publisher association. Wakefield Press is delighted to be involved, and you can find some of our popular titles available as ebooks by clicking this link.

Amore and Amaretti rights sold to Canada

Wakefield Press is delighted to announce that Amore and Amaretti by Victoria Cosford is set to be published in Canada, after the rights were sold to Toronto publisher McArthur & Company. Victoria joins a growing number of prestigious authors on their list, including Margaret Atwood and Bryce Courtenay.

Happy New Year

Here at Wakefield Press we'd like to wish everyone a happy new year, and we hope you had a great festive season with your loved ones. We've got lots of exciting new titles on the way this year, so keep an eye on the website and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter!

Adelaide Showground Farmers Market

Wakefield Press will be selling books at the Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers Market on Sunday 19 December from 9 am to 1 pm, and on Wednesday 22 December from 4 pm to 8 pm. We'll have a great selection of books that will make ideal last-minute Christmas presents.

SEASON'S GREETINGS

Lydia Laube book launch

LYDIA LAUBE BOOK LAUNCH

Samela Harris will launch Lost in Laos by Lydia Laube at the cafeteria located on the ground floor of the Borders Adelaide store on Thursday 9 December.

Lost in Laos is Lydia's eighth book in a series of amusing and informative travel books.

Where: Borders Adelaide,
97 Rundle Mall, Adelaide
When: Thursday 9 December
Time: 5 to 7 pm

PIA SA 2010 Awards

PIA SA 2010 AWARD WINNER
Adelaide: Water of a City has won the Planning Institute of Australia SA Division's award for Planning Scholarship, Research and Teaching.

The PIA SA 2010 Awards for Planning Excellence Gala Presentation Dinner was held on the evening of Friday, 26 November at the Adelaide Pavilion, Veale Gardens.

View the Commemorative Booklet

Christmas sale

SALE!
Wakefield Press is holding its annual Christmas Sale on Saturday 27 November from 10 am to 4 pm. Come along to our bookstore at 1 The Parade West, Kent Town and get your Christmas shopping done or pick up a treat for yourself, with books starting from just $2.

Khai Liew South Australian of the Year awards

Congratulations to Khai Liew, who was recognised for his contribution to the arts at the 2010 South Australian of the Year Awards last Thursday.

Find out more about Khai in the book Khai Liew by Peter Ward.

Jill Joliffe launch

Book Launch
Finding Santana by Jill Joliffe will be launched at the Northern Territory Library on Thursday 2 December. For more details please see the events calendar.

New Books

Two new books arrived this week: the exciting new travel tale from Lydia Laube, Lost in Laos, and a powerful new book from renowned artist Franz Kempf, Days of Masks and Riddles. These books will be up on our website shortly.

Window competition winners

Congratulations to the winners of our 21st birthday window display competition!

1st place - 1 dozen bottles of Fox Creek wine
Art Gallery of SA

2nd place - 3 bottles of Fox Creek wine
Angus & Robertson Market Plaza, Adelaide

3rd place (shared) - 3 bottles of Fox Creek wine
Dymocks Adelaide
Mindfield Books, Blackwood

Click here to see photos of the winning entries.

Russian rights to Amore and Amaretti sold

On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, we were delighted to receive an unexpected offer for the Russian language rights to Amore and Amaretti, from Irina Bachkalo at Ripol Classic Publishing House. Irina was in Australia earlier this year at Adelaide Writers Week and attended the Wakefield Press 21st birthday party.

What Does it Mean to be a Saint launch

As part of the celebrations of Mary MacKillop's canonisation at Penola, this Sunday 17 October, Cathy Whewall will be launching Josephine Laffin's What Does it Mean to be a Saint?.

We will be selling copies of the book, as well as other Wakefield Press titles, at our stand on Portland Street. We look forward to seeing you there!

Landline AND Window Competition


WINDOW PRIZE COMPETITION
Click here to see the Adelaide businesses entered in the Wakefield Press window prize competition.

Entries open until the end of September so feel free to make your own display and send your pictures through to us to be in the running!


WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK

Joel Magarey author of Exposure will speak at the IAF about his book and experiences.

WHEN: Tues 21 September 6.30pm
WHERE: The Literary Club, Hayward Room Public Schools Club 207 East Tce Adelaide
Bookings advised 0407 774 547

Click here to see the full Wakefield Press Event Calendar.

Thomas Shapcott award AND Byron Bay pics

THOMAS SHAPCOTT SHORTLISTED

Wakefield Press author Thomas Shapcott has been shortlisted in the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award category for Gatherers and Hunters.

Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 31 August.

Good luck Tom!

2010 BYRON BAY WRITERS FESTIVAL

Check out our snap shots from the 2010 Byron Bay Writers Festival here.


WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK

Meet biographer Annette Stewart who will be discussing her latest book Barbara Hanrahan: A biography this Friday 7pm at the Coventry Library, Stirling.

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
8408 0420

Click here to see the full Wakefield Press Event Calendar.

Australia Dances Launch AND One Magic Square

AUSTRALIA DANCES LAUNCH

The Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet, David McAllister has launched Australia Dances: Creating Australian dance 1945-1965 by Alan Brissenden and Keith Glennon at the University of Adelaide Barr Smith Library Reading Room.

A fantastic night was had by all with good food, wine and company!

Pictures of the night can be viewed here.

ONE MAGIC SQUARE

One Magic Square is now in the Wakefield Press warehouse once more after its third reprinting in little over a year!

Come into the store or buy your copy online here.

Angela Valamanesh 2


CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations go out to ceramicist Angela Valamanesh and her husband Hossein for becoming Members of the Order of Australia as part of the Queen's Birthday Weekend honours.

Angela Valamanesh:About being here by Cath Kenneally was last year's addition to the collectible SALA series which will this year feature Khai Liew.

Angela Valamanesh Queen's Birthday Honours

Congratulations go out to ceramicist Angela Valamanesh and her husband Hossein for becoming Members of the Order of Australia as part of the Queen's Birthday Weekend honours.

Angela Valamanesh:About being here by Cath Kenneally was last year's addition to the collectible SALA series which will this year feature Khai Liew.

Milton Moon launches

A Potter's Pilgrimage by Milton Moon is being launched in Sydney and Melbourne in June.

MELBOURNE
Mossgreen Gallery
Saturday 5 June
1.30 pm

SYDNEY
Peter Pinson Gallery
Saturday 12 June
1 pm - 3 pm

Time's Long Ruin French rights sold

Wakefield Press has accepted an offer from Presses de la Cite for the French rights to Time's Long Ruin by Stephen Orr.

This will be the fifth Wakefield Press book to be published in France. Sir Douglas Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard was published by Editions Paulsen, while Editions du Masque bought the Wakefield Crime Classics books The Whispering Wall by Patricia Carlon, and Beat Not the Bones and A Hank of Hair by Charlotte Jay.

Barbara Hanrahan launch

Wakefield Press’s newest title, Barbara Hanrahan: A biography by Annette Stewart, will be launched by Barry Oakley as part of the Blaiklock Memorial Lecture 2010, on Thursday 20 May.

When: Thurs 20 May, 5:30 pm
for 6 pm
Where: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building, University of Sydney
RSVP: eileen.corrigan@usyd.edu.au

Wakefield Press sells French rights to Time's Long Ruin

Wakefield Press has accepted an offer from Presses de la Cite for the French rights to Time's Long Ruin by Stephen Orr.

This will be the fifth Wakefield Press book to be published in France. Sir Douglas Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard was published by Editions Paulsen, while Editions du Masque bought the Wakefield Crime Classics books The Whispering Wall by Patricia Carlon, and Beat Not the Bones and A Hank of Hair by Charlotte Jay.

Wakefield Press Sale

MAD MAY SALE!

Wakefield Press is holding a big sale this Saturday, with a range of titles going cheap to book lovers. Stock up for winter!

Sat 8 May
10 am - 4 pm
1 The Parade West
Kent Town

Books from $2
20% off full-priced books

Wakefield Press sells Exposure rights in Korea

Joel Magarey's Exposure is to be published in Korea.

Wakefield Press has signed the contract on Korean rights for Exposure for an undisclosed advance to Sigma Books.

This is the third Korean deal for Wakefield - previous sales were Tony Griffiths' Scandinavia (Miraebook Publishing Company, 2006) and Kate Strohm's Siblings (Hanulim Publishing Company, 2009).

Wakefield Press scores 3 shortlist nominations

Three of Wakefield Press’s bestselling books have been shortlisted for the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards announced by Ian Parmenter, Director of Tasting Australia and Awards Chair, on 8 April 2010.

BEST HARD COVER RECIPE BOOK (under €35)
The Blue Ribbon Cookbook: Recipes, stories and tips from prizewinning country show cooks by Liz Harfull

BEST FOOD BOOK
One Magic Square: Grow your own food on one square metre by Lolo Houbein
Everything but the Squeal: A year of pigging out in Northern Spain by John Barlow