Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Davitt Awards for best Australian women's crime writing. This years winners are: Adult Fiction Sharp Shooter Marianne Delacourt True Crime Lady Killer by Ellen Connolly and Candace Sut…

Alex Miller has won The Age's Book of the Year award, valued at $20 000, for his novel Lovesong. His bestselling novel also won the Fiction prize.

A film about the founders of Google is in the works, with the movie to be based on the book Googled: The end of the world as we know it by Ken Auletta. The Google movie is following in the footsteps of The Social Network, a movie about the founder of Facebook, which was based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.

Congratulations to A S Byatt who has won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize, worth $17 000, for her novel The Children's Book. The Children's Book was also shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009.

In the UK, HarperCollins is being sued by the BBC , in an attempt to stop the publication of a memoir written by Top Gear's mysterious stunt driver The Stig. Up until now, the identity of The Stig has been a well-kept secret and the BBC believes the memoir breaches contractual and confidentiality agreements.

The shortlist for the 2010 Ned Kelly Awards has been announced. The Ned Kelly Awards celebrate Australian crime writing and are presented annually during the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards. The winners are: Older Readers Book of the Year Jarvis 24 David Metzenthen Younger Readers Book of the Year Darius Bell and the Glitter…

The third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English (which is not the same as the Oxford English Dictionary) has been released in the UK with more than 2000 new entries. Some of the more interesting additions include 'bromance', 'chillax', 'interweb' and 'staycation'.

The shortlist for New Zealand's inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime has been announced. The award is for the best crime, myster or thriller written by a New Zealand resident.

Rooney Mara has been confirmed to play the lead character Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A relatively unknown name, the 25-year-old actress will star alongside Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Robin Wright as Erika Berger.