Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Reviewer Jessica Broadbent recommends Frances Whiting’s new novel Walking on Trampolines (October, Macmillan) to readers who are looking for ‘something lovely and comforting to cheer them up in the cold...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
With a list that includes Abbi Glines, Jamie McGuire and Colleen Hoover, Simon & Schuster publishes some of the best-known new adult authors into Australia. Head of marketing and publicity...

Thursday, 8 August 2013
Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel Barracuda (A&U, November) is his ‘most personal and heartfelt book to date’, writes reviewer Martin Shaw. He spoke to the author. In Barracuda we get to...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Reading Christopher Currie’s opinion piece about what booksellers want from publishers, I was moved first to comment and then to respond.  Without detracting from anything Chris raised, all of which...

Thursday, 25 July 2013
Adventurer, author and filmmaker Tim Cope gives ‘an awe-inspiring account of his three-year trek on horseback from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, to the Danube River in Hungary’ in...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
In previous articles under this banner, booksellers with far more experience and intellect than I have identified many essential individual ways in which publishers could greatly benefit the lives of...

Monday, 15 July 2013
US new adult author Abbi Glines visited Australia in June. Glines has three books coming out in 2013: one in the ‘Sea Breeze’ series and two in the ‘Fallen Too...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Boffins Bookshop in Perth has won Specialist Bookseller of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards for six years running. Owner Bill Liddelow shares his bookselling wisdom—with a nod...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs is visiting Australia in September. Her new book Bones of the Lost (William Heinemann) is the latest instalment in Reichs’ bestselling Temperance Brennan series,...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Around 260 members of the local industry attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, which was held in Adelaide on 16-17 June and followed the Leading Edge Books conference...

Monday, 15 July 2013
With new novels from Tim Winton and Margaret Atwood, bios of Ricky Ponting and Nelson Mandela, and gift books from Maggie Beer and Beci Orpin, this Christmas brings books to...

Monday, 15 July 2013
There is an element of nostalgia to this year’s Father’s Day titles, from new books to mark anniversaries for Wisden and Bathurst, to reflections of boyhood adventures. Andrea Hanke rounds...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Andrea Hanke’s ears are ringing with buzz books Recently, someone in publishing tried to explain to me the difference between book buzz and book hype. Buzz, he said, is organic,...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Preparing for National Bookshop Day The third annual National Bookshop Day is scheduled for Saturday 10 August. As well as hosting their own events, booksellers can take part in a...

Monday, 15 July 2013
‘The Full Ridiculous (Text, October) reminds us that sometimes, to really appreciate the beautiful highs of life, you need to hit rock bottom first,’ writes reviewer Louise Fay. She spoke...

Monday, 15 July 2013
In his new novel Cairo (Scribe September), Chris Womersley recreates Melbourne life in the 1980s. The author spoke to Martin Shaw. This novel begs the question: what were you doing in...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton, September) ‘brims with fine detail’, writes reviewer Joanne Shiells. She spoke to the author.  How did you manage to inhabit the...

Monday, 15 July 2013
US author, illustrator and comic book artist Lucy Knisley is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program. Knisley’s books include French Milk (Touchstone) and Relish (First...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Co-authors and sisters Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride have written Shimmer (Fremantle Press, October) for younger readers about a teenage genie who is sent to Earth. They spoke to Dani Solomon. One...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Berbay Publishing and Gecko Press have built their publishing lists by cherry-picking the best children’s books from around the world, reports Kate Blackwood. When Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, managing director at Melbourne’s...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Australian publishers are starting to use the term in their marketing material, but what exactly is new adult, and how is it being used by booksellers? Cordelia Rice reports. In...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Should the Australian book industry get more involved in international events such as World Book Night? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers. Mike Gratwick, co-owner, Dymocks Busselton No, I don’t believe that...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Portia Lindsay finds out what publishers can do to give underperforming titles a second chance. For a book that doesn’t capture the audience’s attention through positive (or with shrinking literary...

Thursday, 11 July 2013
Scott Baker’s time-travel thriller The Rule of Knowledge (Hachette) is out in September. Reviewer Lachlan Jobbins said the book ‘gets better and better the more you read’. You can read his...