Thursday, 16 July 2015
This year’s Leading Edge Books Conference once again included the presentation of the Best Business Ideas Award, which went to Tracey Challis from Ulysses Bookstore in Melbourne.Challis' winning idea was...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
How much do readers trust their booksellers’ recommendations? Stefen Brazulaitis from sci-fi, fantasy, horror and crime specialist Stefen’s Books in Perth decided to find out when he launched a ‘blind...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
The publishing industry has seen a steady drop in job ads advertising in the Weekly Book Newsletter over the past few years, with publishers attributing the decline to lower staff...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
A number of high-profile vloggers have recently announced book deals. Danielle Binks finds out whether the trend is taking off in Australia.A funny thing happened in 2012 when US journalist...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
Karen Russell is a career Co-op bookseller who spent a long time managing the Co-op Sunshine Coast store. She shares her career journey.I started my career with the Co-op at...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
With a wide range of titles on offer, no dad’s bedside table should be empty after Father’s Day. Tim Coronel selects some highlights. All are August or September releases.FictionDarian Richards...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
Jen Storer and illustrator Mitch Vane have collaborated on a new junior fiction series about Danny Best and his neighbourhood crew. The first book, Danny Best: Full On, will be available...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
Daniel Handler is best-known for his ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ series. His latest book for adults, We Are Pirates (Bloomsbury), is about a father and daughter, and...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
In the pictureA book about books is hard to resist. The Great and Wondrous Storyteller by Michael Scott Parkinson (The Five Mile Press, August) features a cast of colourful, cartoonish...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
Why is fantasy trumping science-fiction on the shelves? Sci-fi author David M Henley believes ‘technobabble, moralising and a high chance of crapness’ may be to blame. Though often huddled together in...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
Do you think publishers should use the same book cover for all territories where possible? Books+Publishing asked four booksellers.Anna Low, owner, Potts Point BookshopI don’t think publishers should keep the...

Thursday, 16 July 2015
 Andrea Hanke recommends her favourite forthcoming books byfemale authors.I feel like my reading has always been fairly evenly split between female and male authors, although I really should start keeping a...

Thursday, 9 July 2015
Michael Wagner’s new children’s book Pig Dude is the first book to be released from his micro-publishing company Billy Goat Books. He spoke to Brad Jefferies.What has been your experience...

Thursday, 9 July 2015
Emily Rodda returns to the world of Deltora with a new heroine in Shadows of the Master (Scholastic), the first book of her new series. She spoke to Junior.Shadows of...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Patricia McLinn is the US author of more than 25 romance and mystery novels. Her latest book is Jack’s Heart (Craig's Place Books US), book four in her ‘Wyoming Wildflowers’...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Louis de Bernières will deliver the opening night address at the Melbourne Writers Festival in August. His latest book The Dust That Falls from Dreams (Harvill Secker) will be published...

Thursday, 25 June 2015
Artist and writer Miles Allinson’s debut novel Fever of Animals (Scribe, September) is about a young artist and writer, also called Miles, ‘who is chain-smoking his way across Europe, seeking...

Thursday, 4 June 2015
R J Anderson is a Canadian author whose books include Knife and Ultraviolet (both Hachette). Her latest book is A Pocket Full of Murder (Hachette), a magical mystery for middle-grade...

Thursday, 4 June 2015
Sally Morgan is the author and illustrator of multiple books for adults and children. Sister Heart (Fremantle Press) is her first verse novel, about a young Aboriginal girl taken from...

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Author Antonia Hayes has been a bookseller, book publicist and co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival. Her debut novel Relativity (Viking) is a family drama interwoven with cosmology and quantum...

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Honey Brown is the Aurealis Award-winning, Miles Franklin Award-longlisted author of the novels Red Queen (Penguin) and The Good Daughter (Viking). Her latest short-story collection Six Degrees (Ventura Press, August)...