Alice Wood on HarperCollins’s ABIA-shortlisted marketing campaigns
24 May 2023
HarperCollins, under head of marketing communications Alice Wood, has received three of the five nominations for the inaugural Marketing Strategy of the Year award in this year's Australian Book Industry...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
17 May 2023
In part two of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner share the...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
10 May 2023
In part one of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner outline the...
Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
3 May 2023
The product of two years’ work by IPEd’s Accessibility Initiative Working Party, based on a review of the international literature and a survey of local publishers, the new publication Books...
Amplify Bookstore’s winter picks
26 April 2023
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share their...
Time to open a bookshop
19 April 2023
Various new bookshops have opened up across Australia this year and the previous year, with most of them being focused on children’s books. We take a brief look at the...
Books in the media this weekend, 15–16 April
13 April 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Cellnight (John Kinsella, Transit Lounge) Greek Lessons (Han Kang, Hamish Hamilton)...
Carl Merrison on ‘Backyard Footy’
11 April 2023
Hailing from Halls Creek, children's author Carl Merrison won a 2020 black&write! fellowship to develop his 'Backyard Sports' picture book series. The first book, Backyard Footy (illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian,...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
5 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Books+Publishing's rights publication Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut is in the running for three NSW Premier's awards and the Stella...
Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 April
31 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Blue Hunger (Viola di Grando, Scribe) Hard To Bear (Isabelle Oderberg,...
How international book markets performed in 2022
29 March 2023
Through the PubMagNet initiative, a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world, representatives from publications in Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US have shared insights...
Jess Racklyeft recommends
21 March 2023
I am a huge fan of Claire Saxby’s work (I have been honoured to work on the books Iceberg and Whisper on the Wind [both A&U] with her) and recently read Tasmanian...
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....
Megan Rogers recommends
15 March 2023
The last book I read and loved was Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (Penguin). I’d been wanting to read it for years but didn’t get a chance until after I’d finished...
Megan Rogers on ‘The Heart is a Star’
15 March 2023
Megan Rogers' debut novel, The Heart is a Star (HarperCollins, May), centres on a middle-aged anaesthetist, Layla, who is juggling her career, family and love life when she must travel to Tasmania...
Christmas 2022: sales up, supply problems ease
8 March 2023
Books+Publishing received feedback from representatives of 53 bookshops around Australia for its annual Christmas survey. According to booksellers, there was a bump in book sales in the lead-up to Christmas...
B D Lovell recommends
28 February 2023
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (Scribner) is probably the last book that I really loved, even though I read it several years ago. It is a YA...
B D Lovell on ‘Between Worlds’
28 February 2023
B D Lovell's new speculative verse novel Between Worlds (UWAP) follows Earth's first mission to begin the process of colonising Mars. Our reviewer Stefen Brazulaitis says this 'tale of space exploration...
Baby boom: The growth of children’s and young adult market
22 February 2023
In our latest genre spotlight Books+Publishing takes a look at the children’s and young adult category. Children’s and young adult (CYA) titles have been driving the growth of the Australian book market in...
Books in the media this weekend: 18–19 February
17 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Credo: Selected essays (Imants Tillers, Giramondo) O'Leary of the Underworld (Kate...
Dinalie Dabarera recommends
15 February 2023
I recently finished reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Picador), which very poignantly deals with some themes similar to those in my own book, like family, culture and...
Dinalie Dabarera on ‘Quiet Time with My Seeya’
15 February 2023
Dinalie Dabarera's debut picture book Quiet Time with My Seeya tells a gentle story of the relationship between a young child and her Sinhalese grandpa. 'This mutual love and tenderness...
Strong season for publishers as sales top pre-pandemic figures
15 February 2023
BookTok drove sales of US titles, print delays were a challenge and, looking ahead, 'pricing will finally be going up', but for most publishers, Christmas 2022 was a good one....
Books in the media this weekend, 11–12 February
10 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A Country of Eternal Light (Paul Dalgarno, Fourth Estate) The Matchmaker...
Doris Brett recommends
7 February 2023
I have been re-reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Penguin). I first read, and loved it, as a teenager. It is a sharply written, laugh-out-loud-on-the-tram novel, satirising the doom-and-gloom,...
Doris Brett on ‘Philomella and the Impossible Forest’
7 February 2023
Philomella and the Impossible Forest is Doris Brett's first fiction book for children. A 'playful take on the classic quest story' the middle-grade novel follows Philomella who stumbles upon a forest...
Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 February
3 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Is Mother Dead (Vigdis Hjorth, Verso) The Passion of Private White...
Editors and trauma: Why we need an industry framework
31 January 2023
Camilla Cripps's research finds that the vast majority of editors have worked with traumatic material and 60% report having trauma disclosed to them by an author, yet the industry does...
Dominic Smith on ‘Return to Valetto’
24 January 2023
Return to Valetto (A&U, March) is Seattle-based Australian expat Dominic Smith's sixth novel. Set in a fictional semi-abandoned Italian town, the book excavates the town's mysteries and explores the lives of the...
Dominic Smith recommends
24 January 2023
I was late in coming to Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance (Picador), which won the Miles Franklin in 2011. I loved it for its ability to give the colonial settling...
