Sally Rippin on children’s literature, literacy and gatekeeping
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Sally Rippin is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2024–25, the latest step in a career that has also included writing over 100 books for children and young adults, including the series...
Sophie Beer recommends
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Oh, this is too difficult! Can I break it down into different genres? Adult: Because I’m Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston is a heartbreaking, unputdownable story of Ariane’s...
Sophie Beer on ‘Thunderhead’
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Prolific illustrator Sophie Beer’s debut middle-grade novel, Thunderhead (November, A&U Children’s), was inspired by her own experience with a brain tumour that resulted in hearing loss. Books+Publishing reviewer Clare Millar...
Inga Simpson recommends
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Dusk by Robbie Arnott. I admire his capacity to embed characters in the landscape and the way he evokes Tasmania’s central highlands as such wild, strange places where humans can...
Inga Simpson on ‘The Thinning’
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson's sixth novel, The Thinning (November 2024, Hachette), imagines a potential future through an astronomical lens. Books+Publishing reviewer Ana Brawls describes the book as 'an...
Shannon Martinez recommends
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
The book I still have on my table that I can’t stop looking at is Chae: Korean Slow Food for a Better Life. It’s just so incredibly beautiful, and Melbourne...
Shannon Martinez on ‘Vegan Italian Food’
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Chef and restaurateur Shannon Martinez is a pioneer in her industry, bringing vegan cooking to the masses through her books and restaurants, including Smith + Daughters. Her latest cookbook, Vegan...
Michelle de Kretser recommends
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13 is a stupendous collection of stories that imagines the fallout from the crimes committed by a serial killer. It’s a dazzling refraction of the backpacker murders...
Michelle de Kretser on ‘Theory & Practice’
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser’s latest novel, Theory & Practice (November 2024, Text), is a combination of fiction, memoir and essay set in St Kilda, Melbourne, in 1986....
‘A service we wish to recommit to and double down on’: Shant Kradjian on Booktopia’s distribution services, staffing, and plans to rebuild trust
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Shant Kradjian, owner of digiDirect, is the new owner of Booktopia, which began trading again last week. With plans ‘to restore Booktopia with a back-to-basics strategy’, Kradjian says his team...
Alyson O’Brien on literacy and trade publishing: ‘It’s lucky for a manuscript for the very young to even make it to an acquisitions meeting’
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
A year ago, when former Bright Light publisher Alyson O'Brien moved from commercial publishing to Raising Literacy Australia, she thought her commercial experience would add value to the organisation; she...
David Dyer recommends
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
The last Australian book I read and loved was Larry Writer’s wonderful The Shipwreck (2022). It tells the dramatic story of the sailing ship Dunbar, which, in 1857, after a...
David Dyer on ‘This Kingdom of Dust’
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
David Dyer’s debut novel, The Midnight Watch (Penguin, 2016), focused on the ship that witnessed the Titanic’s distress rockets but failed to respond. His sophomore novel, This Kingdom of Dust...
Returning to BookUp in 2024
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
The annual BookUp conference for 2024, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), was held at the State Library Victoria, Melbourne, on Wednesday 7 August, with wide-ranging sessions inviting participants to contemplate...
Yin on ‘The Conscious Style Guide’
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Karen Yin is an award-winning writer and editor. She created the Conscious Style Guide, a resource website for writers, editors and others interested in conscious language, as well as the...
Rochelle Siemienowicz recommends
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
If You Go by Alice Robinson (Affirm) is an amazing book that works as both tense, speculative fiction and as a nuanced, philosophical exploration of divorce, motherhood and the moments...
Rochelle Siemienowicz on ‘Double Happiness’
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne-based author, journalist and film critic. Her debut fiction novel, Double Happiness (MidnightSun, October 2024), ‘explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy’, according...
Jacqueline Dinan recommends
Tuesday, 6 August 2024
I have just finished reading Nova Weetman’s Love, Death & Other Scenes, in which she so rawly yet beautifully explores her journey through her husband’s illness and ultimate death, plus...
Andrew Krakouer recommends
Tuesday, 6 August 2024
I am fascinated by Always Was, Always Will Be by Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson, also published by Magabala Books. I have always appreciated the fight for respect on...
Andrew Krakouer & Jacqueline Dinan on ‘My Dad’s Gone Away’
Tuesday, 6 August 2024
In the unique new picture book My Dad’s Gone Away (Magabala, October 2024), authors Andrew Krakouer, a Minang (Nyoongar) and Inggarda (Yamatji) man and former AFL player, and Jacqueline Dinan,...
Meet the Rising Stars: Tessa Feggans
Tuesday, 6 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Lauren Stewart on BookNet Canada
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Lauren Stewart, president and CEO of BookNet Canada, will present a keynote at the Australian Publishers Association's BookUp conference in Melbourne on 7 August. Ahead of this appearance, Stewart spoke...
Meet the Rising Stars: Yasmin Smith
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Hasib Hourani recommends
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
I keep returning to Jumaana Abdu’s Translations, which will be released in August. It’s an expertly paced work of fiction about a woman trying to build a home for herself...
Mentoring matters: Arpita Das on the myths, realities and importance of mentoring
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Arpita Das will appear at the Australian Publishers Association's BookUp conference in Melbourne in August as a keynote speaker. Das is the founder and publisher of the New Delhi–based independent...
Hasib Hourani on ‘rock flight’
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on Wangal Country in Sydney. His debut book, rock flight (Giramondo, September 2024), is a 'structurally experimental long-form poem...
Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 children’s books
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Books+Publishing asked publishers to highlight their key local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2024. From heartfelt picture books on social issues to everything a child...
Arnold opens Ladyhawke bookshop in Ivanhoe
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
After a ‘three-year sunny accident’ in Queensland, editor and bookseller Alison Arnold sold The Junction Bookstore in Noosa Junction and returned to Melbourne. Arnold spoke to Books+Publishing about the new...
Meet the Rising Stars: Rebecca Allen
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement...
Tigest Girma recommends
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni is a YA fantasy book about a girl who fights to survive in a death prison. It was my first time reading a fantasy...
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