Thursday, 5 July 2012
Andrew Croome’s second novel Midnight Empire (A&U, September), following the 2008 Vogel Award-winning, Document Z, is a contemporary political thriller set against a backdrop of Las Vegas’ professional poker scene...

Thursday, 5 July 2012
Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d be Cake (Penguin) and more recently, How Did You Get This Number (Portobello). She is a guest of the Melbourne...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
With two romantic comedies under her belt, Toni Jordan tackles the family saga in her latest book Nine Days (Text, September). She spoke to reviewer Chris Harrington. The nine days...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Australian author and literary agent Virginia Lloyd travelled to Book Expo America last month, where everyone was talking about ‘the problem of discovery’. The more some things change in book...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Beneath the Darkening Sky is a novel by 27-year-old Australian-Sudanese writer Majok Tulba, which imagines the life of a child soldier in Sudan (see review here). It’s the story of...

Friday, 29 June 2012
An abundance of book-to-film adaptations have been released this year, with still more to come. It’s good news for the Sun Bookshop and Riverbend Books, which run their own film...

Thursday, 28 June 2012
Many booksellers are now signed up to sell ebooks, but how do you drive customers to your ebook store? We asked Kevin Guy from Avid Reader and Jon Page from...

Friday, 22 June 2012
Fiction Black Mountain (Venero Armanno, UQP, August) reviewed by Jon Page This intriguing novel takes you from a small coastal Queensland town to the sulphur minefields of Sicily. There are...

Friday, 15 June 2012
Benjamin Law tells Andrew Wrathall about his new book of adventure gonzo-ish journalism, which explores queer culture in Asia. (See our review here.) While some dry academic books have been...

Friday, 15 June 2012
In her latest novel, Sue Woolfe depicts life in an outback Aboriginal community through the eyes of white linguistics student Kate. Reviewer Clive Tilsley gave it five stars, describing it...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Piracy is a hot topic in the publishing industry, especially when it comes to ebooks. US writer Chris Ruen looks at the history, meaning and implications of downloading unlicensed digital...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Picture book publishers are showing no signs of slacking off in what is normally a low-selling period. Stephen Michael King has teamed up with Nick Bland in The Magnificent Tree...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
High Court Justice Michael Kirby is no stranger to the public spotlight. Although he’s only recently published his own story, he’s also the subject of a new biography, Michael Kirby:...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Winner of the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing, Dylan Coleman’s novel is ‘in turn heart-wrenching, amusing, tragic and resilient’, writes reviewer Max Oliver. He spoke to the author. This...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Emily Maguire’s latest novel explores the amorality of an expat community in Hanoi, and 35-year-old Mischa’s affair with an idealistic younger man. Maguire spoke to Portia Lindsay. You have previously...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Jason Lake is the co-owner of Imprints Booksellers in Adelaide’s ‘bohemian quarter’. He shares his bookseller’s diary. Imprints Booksellers opened its doors for business in 1984. It has since become...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Malcolm Neil calls for a more balanced industry debate on ebooks, and fewer references to book sniffing. Australia, more than most countries, has seen the business elements of the book...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Some booksellers are being approached daily by self-published authors. So how do they decide which titles to stock? Rita Yazdani spoke to three booksellers. When Amal Awad decided to self-publish...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Jamie Byng, MD of the Edinburgh-based publishing house Canongate and founder of World Book Night, will give the keynote address at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. He spoke...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
With the retail sector in the doldrums, the mere mention of succession planning can cause a bookshop owner’s brow to furrow. Rebecca Butterworth spoke to several booksellers about their long-term...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Art, writing and a mid-career detour into science eventually brought Lis Bastian to Varuna. I’m sitting here on a break in the Varuna arm of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, pondering...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Would you consider selling ereaders in your bookstore and if so, what type? Bookseller+Publisher spoke to three booksellers. We have not considered selling ereaders. Our ebooks are accessible to anybody...

Friday, 8 June 2012
In August, Simon & Schuster Australia will publish actress Molly Ringwald’s book When It Happens to You—a collection of interlinked stories that explores the effects of betrayal on a family....

Friday, 8 June 2012
Liz Moore is touring Australia in July. Her latest book is Heft (Random House), the story of two improbable heroes: a former academic who weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left...

Friday, 8 June 2012
‘The Midnight Promise crashes straight into Temple, Corris and Chandler territory,’ writes reviewer Catherine Schulz. She spoke to author Zane Lovitt. The Midnight Promise was plucked from the slushpile by...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Australian booksellers have welcomed the recent wave of publishers releasing branded classics, saying they have made classic books more accessible and attractive to readers, and have provided a new angle...

Monday, 28 May 2012
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced, and in the fiction category Miles Franklin contenders All That I Am and Foal’s Bread are joined by Sarah Thornhill, Autumn Laing and Forecast:...