Most mentioned this week
Monday, 29 March 2010
The 50-year anniversary of architect Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness (Text) has arrived, along with an anniversary edition to commemorate it, featuring a foreword by Christos Tsiolkas. Boyd was a fierce...
BOOK REVIEW: Sunday’s Kitchen: Food and the Art of Living at Heide (Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan, Miegunyah)
Monday, 29 March 2010
This is one of those gorgeous cookbooks that you want to really read, not just cook from. As much a history of Heide—the house, the gallery, the people, the art,...
Celebrating children’s literature at Somerset
Thursday, 25 March 2010
The Somerset Celebration of Literature held its annual school literature festival from 15 to 19 March 2010 at Somerset College in Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Over 16,000 tickets...
Bestsellers: Larsson regains ground
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Last week's two bestsellers Clive Cussler's The Silent Sea and Belinda Alexandra's Tuscan Rose moved to second and sixth place respectively in the bestseller charts, while Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy...
Most mentioned this week
Monday, 22 March 2010
Ian McEwan's Solar (Jonathan Cape), a 'comedy about climate change', received far and away the most mentions over the past week, but they haven't all been positive. ‘In spite of...
The week that was: Friday round-up
Friday, 19 March 2010
The longlist of that iconic award, the Miles Franklin was announced this week, with the ratio of male to female authors—that’d be nine men versus three women—troubling some (especially following...
Our pick of the latest Popular Penguins
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Penguin Australia has just announced the next 75 titles in its Popular Penguins list, to be released in July. They got the word out with this video, but we've rounded...
The Fancy Goods questionnaire: David Gaunt
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
David Gaunt is the co-owner of Gleebooks, an independent bookselling chain about to open a new store in Dulwich Hill, NSW. He is also chair of the Indigenous Literacy Project,...
ADELAIDE WRITERS WEEK DAY 1: Behind the scenes
Monday, 1 March 2010
‘You write for the pleasure of putting words on a page.’ Marina Lewycka gave up on the idea of being published and then wrote the hit A Short History of...
Welcome April B+P Magazine, we’re very pleased you could make it
Friday, 26 February 2010
Welcome, April Bookseller+Publisher magazine. We hope you enjoyed your trip from the printers. You really are a most delightful-looking publication. And what's that you say? You contain 45 reviews of...
Our dark and private spaces
Friday, 26 February 2010
Citing the rise of text-based social interactions such as Facebook and Twitter, Margaret Simons made the point at last night’s first official ‘Meanland’ event, that ‘text is everywhere, there is...
Hey there good-lookin’: our best covers of the year?
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Are these the best Australian book covers you’ve seen in the past year? The Australian Publishers Association seems to think so—each of these books have been shortlisted in the ‘best...
Literary iPhone apps: bite-sized, pocket-sized and with Shakespeare to go
Friday, 19 February 2010
As someone who takes every opportunity to read, I'm usually distraught when I've forgotten to put a book in my bag in the morning. Not anymore. I got my iPhone...
