Top stories this week
16 January 2015
This week’s top stories from the Weekly Book Newsletter include: Brisbane bookstore Black Cat Books to close Dymocks exits Hong Kong Melbourne teacher launches $5000 grant for online writing Indie...
Top stories this week
4 December 2014
This week’s top stories from the Weekly Book Newsletter include: Ruffino appointed MD of S&S Australia Council ‘new work’ grants announced ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ announces Classic Beach Books list...
Bestsellers this week
2 December 2014
Jamie Oliver is climbing up the bestsellers chart in the lead-up to Christmas. Three of his titles are among the week’s fastest movers, with Jamie’s Comfort Food (Michael Joseph) at the...
Top 10 political bios of the past decade
30 September 2014
How will Julia Gillard’s memoir measure up against her predecessors’? Nielsen BookScan has put together a list of the bestselling political biographies and memoirs of the past 10 years. Dreams...
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
23 September 2014
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...
Awards round-up: July
21 July 2014
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award and picked up the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and Encore Award for a second novel....
Postage costs and the Australian book industry: a history
17 July 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) believes the biggest threat to bookshops and other local retailers is postage costs. It offers this example: ‘It costs in excess of ten times more...
Australian Book Design Awards 2014
16 July 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Book Design Awards. Here's a look at the covers for the shortlisted titles in the categories of...
From book to film: what’s coming in the second half of 2014?
2 May 2014
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Forthcoming film adaptations of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) and Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Orion), along with the recent...
Top stories this week
1 May 2014
This week’s top stories from the Weekly Book Newsletter include: Best Australian Blogs 2014 finalists announced ABIA 2014 book awards shortlists announced, website launched EBSCO announces restructure Wright wins 2014...
Stella Prize 2014 longlist announced
13 February 2014
The longlist for the second Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlist features six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction. The longlisted titles are: Letter to George...
Top ‘Books+Publishing’ junior reviews of 2013
20 December 2013
In 2013 Books+Publishing reviewed 99 children’s and YA books. Here are some of our reviewers' favourites: Picture books Only one picture book scored five stars from Books+Publishing’s reviewers this year...
Top ‘Books+Publishing’ adult reviews of 2013
19 December 2013
In 2013 Books+Publishing reviewed over 130 adult fiction and nonfiction titles. But which books did our reviewers enjoy the most? Here's a round-up of the top-scorers: One of the first books to...
Bookish dates for 2014
9 December 2013
With the new year just around the corner, organisers have been busy planning their book events for 2014. Here are some key dates to put in your Outlook calendar or old-school paper diary:...
Best books of 2013: Part one
28 November 2013
It’s that time of the year again: booksellers, the media and other lit-lovers have begun posting lists of their favourite books of 2013. We have scoured the internet to bring you a...
Page to screen: summer and beyond
12 November 2013
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Summer once again brings the release of a number of book-to-film adaptations, including big-budget blockbusters, takes on bestselling and critically acclaimed...
In the game: bestselling sports books in Australia
25 October 2013
HarperCollins launched Ricky Ponting’s memoir At the Close of Play this month with an initial print run of 100,000 copies. The book was launched by former PM John Howard and...
Top stories this week
24 October 2013
This week’s top stories from the Weekly Book Newsletter include: Australia Council releases fact sheet on reading behaviour Most Underrated Book Award 2013 shortlist announced SPN Independent Publishing Conference 2013 program announced Whitcoulls suspends ebookstore...
BOOK REVIEW: Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers (Rachel Buchanan, Scribe)
22 October 2013
From her first job as a junior reporter at a local paper in New Zealand to her time as a subeditor at the Age in the early 1990s, Rachel Buchanan...
Fancy Goods questionnaire: Brad Jefferies
25 September 2013
Brad Jefferies is the new publishing assistant at Books+Publishing. We asked him to share his reading fancies. What are you reading right now? Late last night I finished Wayne Macauley’s...
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation: Tiwi Islands trip
21 August 2013
Andrea Hanke joined several members of the Australian book industry on a trip to the Tiwi Islands to visit some of the schools involved in the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF)....
2013 APA Book Design Awards winners
24 May 2013
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. Congratulations to the three overall winners: The Best Designed Book of the Year Things I...
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2013
3 April 2013
Wild Dog Books publisher Andrew Kelly attended this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which ran from 25-28 March. You can read his report of the fair here. Australian children's book...
BOOK REVIEW: The Railwayman’s Wife (Ashley Hay, A&U)
25 March 2013
Set on the south coast of NSW in Thirroul in 1948, where D H Lawrence wrote Kangaroo, this stunning novel follows the lives of several seemingly disparate characters. Dr Draper...
Fancy Goods questionnaire: Kate Blackwood
10 January 2013
Kate Blackwood is the new editorial assistant at Bookseller Publisher, and naturally a big reader. We asked her to tell us what titles make her tick. What are you reading...
BOOK REVIEW: Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (Benjamin Law, Black Inc.)
24 August 2012
Benjamin Law embarks on a wild ride through Asia to investigate queer culture in Gaysia. In Indonesia he meets the moneyboys who prostitute themselves to Western men, usually preferring the...
CBCA Book of the Year Award winners 2012
17 August 2012
The winners of this year’s Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced today, marking the official launch of Children’s Book Week. The winning books...
BOOK REVIEW: The Oldest Song in the World (Sue Woolfe, Fourth Estate)
3 August 2012
The Oldest Song in the World is quite an incredible book. The story, with its mix of themes, is full of tension and interest. Kate is sent to a town...
BOOK REVIEW: Zombies, Bananas and Why There Are No Economists in Heaven (Jessica Irvine, A&U)
1 August 2012
Let’s face it, economics is not the sexiest social science going around. If I were to spout the terms ‘negative externality’ or ‘elasticity of demand’, I’m pretty sure most readers’...
Top stories this week
12 July 2012
This week’s top stories from the Weekly Book Newsletter include: Seale to step down at Random House Book Depository stops selling ebooks WA Premier's Book Awards shortlists New website to...
