Monday, 31 March 2014
New books by Dunham, Rakoff, Cunningham and Murakami are in hot demand among the Books+Publishing editorial team. Eloise Keating, Kate Blackwood, Andrew Wrathall and Brad Jefferies share their editor’s picks.Eloise...

Thursday, 20 March 2014
UK writer Laura Bates, who founded the Everyday Sexism Project, is the author of Everyday Sexism (S&S, April). She is visiting Australia in May.  What would you put on a shelf-talker...

Thursday, 20 March 2014
Ian Shadwell’s debut novel Slush Pile (Puncher & Wattman, June), which follows the desperate life of a washed-up former Booker Prize-winner, ‘will appeal to writers, aspiring writers, publishing insiders and...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
I’m sharing what I’ve learnt about chairing and interviewing authors on stage, particularly through watching good, mediocre or bad sessions at festivals, not just due to my own experience chairing...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Michael Wagner and illustrator Terry Denton take ‘their healthy sense of the ridiculous to the world’s most popular sport’ in their ‘Maxx Rumble: Soccer’ series (Walker, May), writes reviewer Samuel...

Monday, 3 March 2014
Irish author Cathy Kelly is visiting Australia in March, to coincide with the release of her newest novel A Woman’s Heart (HarperFiction, March). What is the silliest question you’ve ever...

Monday, 3 March 2014
Canadian author D W Wilson is visiting Australia in March for the Adelaide Writers’ Week. Wilson is the author of the short-story collection Once You Break a Knuckle and his...

Monday, 3 March 2014
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng is visiting Australia in March for the Adelaide Writers’ Week. Twan Eng is the author of novels including The Garden of Evening Mists (A&U), which...

Monday, 17 February 2014
In The Colonial Journals: And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture (UWA Publishing, May), Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver curate a collection of essays, short stories and artwork from early...

Monday, 17 February 2014
Lebanese-American author Rabih Alameddine is visiting Australia in March to promote his third novel, An Unnecessary Woman (Text).What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? A naked Colin...

Monday, 17 February 2014
French-American author Mireille Guiliano is visiting Australia in February. Her latest book is French Women Don’t Get Facelifts (Doubleday). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?Attitude is the new...

Friday, 7 February 2014
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? If I had abandoned all claim to modesty, I might put: ‘The Lie is an enthralling, deeply moving story about three childhood...

Friday, 7 February 2014
‘Une souris verte qui courait dans l’herbe,’ French tutor Myriam Bourdon reads aloud to children at Readings bookstore in St Kilda. She then whispers the translation: ‘A green mouse that...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Epistolatory novels, Swiss noir and a dark new take on The Wizard of Oz are on Andrea Hanke’s 2014 reading listAndrea Hanke’s 2014 reading list. In a publishing industry that typically...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Reviewer Martin Shaw describes Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection  Foreign Soil (Hachette, May) as ‘vivid  and unforgettable’. (Read the review here.) Shaw spoke to the author.Last year you won the Victorian...

Friday, 7 February 2014
The first half of 2014 is all about books and series by favourite authors. JR Ward’s The King (Piatkus), book 12 of the immensely popular ‘Black Dagger Brotherhood’ series, is...

Friday, 7 February 2014
The next few months are looking promising for poetry fans. In February, Fremantle Press is publishing John Mateer’s Emptiness: Asian Poems 1998-2012. This is the ideal companion to Contemporary Asian...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Bully for Them is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who encountered bullying at school, including Christos Tsiolkas, Alice Pung, Megan Washington, Marieke Hardy,...

Friday, 7 February 2014
2014 is shaping up as a glorious year for audiobooks, with long-awaited classics and some up-to-the-minute new releases. Jeffrey Archer’s Be Careful What You Wish For (Macmillan Digital Audio, March),...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Following the success of her 2011 book Notebooks, the former director of the National Gallery of Australia Betty Churcher has written a companion title that focuses on her favourite artworks...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Much-loved children’s and YA author Jackie French is the new Australian Children’s Laureate. She spoke to Kate Blackwood about her plans for her term, which runs until 2015. Broadly speaking, what...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Zac Harding not only works as a community learning librarian at Shirley Library in Christchurch, New Zealand, but also runs a book blog and is a judge in the 2014...

Friday, 7 February 2014
With brand licensing proving to be a growing area in book publishing, Kate Blackwood asks three local publishers about their licensed lists. Hardie Grant EgmontThere are 12 brands on Hardie Grant...

Friday, 7 February 2014
A new chapterSome much-loved series have new instalments due out this year, while other series are just taking off. As a follow-up to the popular ‘Our Australian Girl’ series, Puffin...