Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
27 September 2023
Last Thursday, 21 September, over 1000 people tuned in to Australia Reads’ Volume symposium, on the theme ‘Building a Reading Nation’. In the context of declining literacy and reading rates,...
Lucy Treloar on ‘Days of Innocence and Wonder’
26 September 2023
Lucy Treloar's Salt Creek (Picador, 2015) claimed the Dobbie Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK's Walter Scott Prize, while her second novel,...
Sport and sportspeople in Australian youth literature
20 September 2023
Former bookseller Georgia Strobel recently undertook research into how sport and sportspeople are represented in Australian children's literature. Here, she shares her findings. Earlier this year I was lucky enough...
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
13 September 2023
Ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Books+Publishing’s rights publication, Think Australian, looks at how the local market has fared so far this year. After three consecutive years of growth, the Australian book...
Beverley McWilliams on ‘Spies in the Sky’
6 September 2023
Beverley McWilliams is a children's writer based in South Australia who loves sharing history with children. Books+Publishing reviewer Karys McEwen describes her new book, Spies in the Sky (Pantera, November),...
Meet the publishers: new small presses to watch
30 August 2023
The pandemic: book buyers rediscovered their love of reading, authors made use of lockdowns to write, but for some, it was all about publishing. Here, we profile five publishers launched...
Celebrating imperfections and connections at BookUp 2023
23 August 2023
The annual BookUp conference for 2023, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), was held at the State Library Victoria, Melbourne, on Wednesday 16 August, with wide-ranging sessions inviting participants to...
Giselle Clarkson on ‘The Observologist’
22 August 2023
Giselle Clarkson is an illustrator and comic artist based in Greytown, Aotearoa New Zealand, and is best known for her nonfiction comics on conservation and environmental topics. Books+Publishing reviewer Karys...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kajal Narayan
16 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Pitched at MIFF 2023
9 August 2023
Publishers and agents returned to the Melbourne International Film Festival's book-to-screen rights sales event Books@MIFF again this year, with a diverse range of titles selected for on-stage pitching, followed by...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Tom Langshaw
9 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Suzie Miller on ‘Prima Facie’
8 August 2023
Suzie Miller is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist who splits her time between the UK and Sydney. Prima Facie (Picador, September) is an adaptation of her smash-hit one-woman play, which...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Genevieve Nelsson
2 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Thank you Mark Rubbo, from a sales rep
2 August 2023
Mark Rubbo retired as Readings MD on 28 July, after 50 years in the books business. Hardie Grant Books area manager, Victoria and Tasmania, Mandy Wildsmith reflects on working with...
Elise Esther Hearst on ‘One Day We’re All Going to Die’
25 July 2023
Melbourne-based playwright and author Elise Esther Hearst has been described as ‘one of the most interesting young playwriting voices in Australian theatre’. Her debut novel One Day We’re All Going...
Publishers flock to Threads
25 July 2023
Meta, the owners of Instagram and Facebook, launched the new app Threads—a very similar platform to Twitter—on 5 July, gaining 100 million users in only five days, as those frustrated...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Eloise Plant
20 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kathleen O’Neill
18 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Hummingbird Effect’
18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall is a Melbourne-based writer whose first book, Skylarking, was longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Indie Book Awards. Her second novel was the widely lauded The Mother Fault. Her latest, The...
Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’
12 July 2023
Historian and novelist Isolde Martyn and First Nations author Robyn Ridgeway have collaborated on a history of an imagined Australian country town, decade-by-decade from 1922 to the present day, illustrated...
Lonely Planet’s ‘blue spine’ guidebooks reimagined as publisher celebrates 50 years
12 July 2023
As the travel category recovers from its pandemic low-point, Lonely Planet is celebrating 50 years. The publisher's senior director, trade sales & marketing Chris Zeiher talks to Books+Publishing about the...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local fiction
5 July 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Also see our features for nonfiction as well as children’s and YA titles. Familiar names...
Ash Barty on ‘Ash Barty: Champion’
4 July 2023
Ash Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer from Queensland. Those who pick up the new Young Readers edition of her memoir, Ash Barty: Champion (HarperCollins), ‘will...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local nonfiction
28 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local nonfiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Politics and culture Two books for those ready to read about the pandemic lockdowns: Life as...
Gabbie Stroud on ‘The Things That Matter Most’
27 June 2023
Gabbie Stroud is a self-professed 'recovering teacher' and author of the bestselling Teacher (2018, A&U) based in Merimbula, NSW. Her new adult novel, The Things That Matter Most (A&U, August), is an...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local children’s and YA
21 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Tis the season Among the children’s and YA titles coming in time for...
Maree Coote on ‘Letters for Lunch’
20 June 2023
Maree Coote is a celebrated Melbourne-based publisher, author and illustrator known for her captivating and intricately detailed illustrations. She won the coveted Bologna Ragnazzi 2017 Special Mention Prize for her...
The APA on a new ‘clean and modern’ TitlePage and future potential
14 June 2023
The APA's Titlepage and supply chain manager Cat Colwell spoke to Books+Publishing about some recent changes to book pricing and availability service TitlePage, as well as its potential to provide more real-time...
Wendy Orr on ‘Honey and the Valley of the Horses’
6 June 2023
Wendy Orr is a Canadian-born writer who now calls Australia home. She is the author of over 40 books but is perhaps best known for her beloved novel Nim's Island...
Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 June
2 June 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Dark Cloud (Guillaume Pitron, Scribe) Eleven Letters to You (Helen Elliott,...
