Your Store: Non-book item of the month
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
We all know rainy days are best spent curled up inside with a book, but if you must venture out you might as well let your favourite Penguin classic keep...
Question time: Reflections on the role of the publisher
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
UQP nonfiction publisher Alexandra Payne has worked in the publishing industry since 1995 and is completing a doctorate on the future of the publisher in a transmedia landscape. She joins...
System override: Elizabeth Tan on ‘Rubik’
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Elizabeth Tan’s Rubik is a novel of interconnected short stories with plotlines that explore ‘a sprawling world of shady corporations, sentient memes and hackable bodies’. The result is ‘conceptually and structurally...
Movie mayhem: Alex Miles on ‘Mammoth Mistake’
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in Alex Miles’ new ‘Olive Black’ series, about a 10-year-old actress who juggles friendships, rivals and on-set hijinks. Reviewer Bec Kavanagh spoke to the...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2016
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth issue for 2016 is out now! It features 26 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in December 2016 to March 2017. Lucy Durneen’s short-story collection Wild...
Book bites: In the picture
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....
Book bites: Teen talk
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...
Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Allison Rushby’s middle-grade novel The Turnkey is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Reviewer Maria H Alessandrino spoke to the author. Read her review here....
School ties: Partnerships between bookstores and schools
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Danielle Binks explores different partnerships between bookstores and schools. At the 2016 Leading Edge Books Conference, the Best Business Idea award was presented to Amelia Lush from Better Read Than...
Choose your own adventures: 2017 children’s and YA preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Publishers tell Jackie Tang about their standout titles for kids and teens in 2017, from plucky new junior-fiction protagonists to YA genre hybrids. Next year will see the launch of...
Under the microscope: Science and technology in the classroom
Thursday, 6 October 2016
A growing emphasis on science and technology in the classroom is presenting an opportunity for children’s publishing, writes Brad Jefferies. Late last year, Wiley introduced its ‘Dummies Kids’ line, a...
Between the lines: Gladys Bembo
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Brisbane Writers Festival made international news after the controversial opening speech of American author Lionel Shriver. In deciding to stray from her original brief of talking about ‘community and...
Shelf talk: New romantics
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Summer is the season for beach reads, happy endings, and an abundance of new titles from some of romance fiction’s bestselling authors. In December, Nora Roberts concludes her ‘Guardians’ trilogy...
Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nostalgia is very much the watch-word for pop culture at the moment, and sci-fi and fantasy are as gripped by it as everything else is. Anyone reading fantasy in the...
A life re-examined: Jeff Sparrow on ‘No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson’
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Jeff Sparrow’s book on African-American singer, actor and political activist Paul Robeson combines ‘essay, journalism, history and biography to produce something engaging, original and insightful’, writes reviewer Chris Saliba. He...
Your store: Blog brainstorming
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Companies that blog 15-plus times a month get five times more traffic on their websites, according to social media expert Yvonne Adele. This is because each new blog post offers...
Your store: #loveOzYA in action
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The #LoveOzYA movement has been gaining traction in local bookstores, with a number of booksellers creating dedicated shelves and promotions for Australian YA. One of those booksellers is Dymocks, which...
Editor’s picks: Translated titles
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The end of the year sees the arrival of several new translated titles. Andrea Hanke rounds up a selection for her editor’s picks. In November, Text is publishing a collection of...
Along came Harry: On the launch of Harry Hartog Woden
Thursday, 6 October 2016
In 2014, Harry Hartog Woden store manager James Redden had the ‘humbling and terrifying’ experience of launching a new bookselling brand. He shares his bookseller’s diary. It was both humbling...
Small presses, big data: Bestselling titles for small presses
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Former Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds takes a closer look at the small press sector and its bestselling titles. There is no standard definition of a small publisher,...
The smaller picture: Challenges and opportunities for small presses
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Small presses have been lauded for their investment in literature and new Australian authors, yet they continue to face challenges around funding, distribution and their role in an evolving publishing...
Drawing from experience: An interview with Quarto director Marcus Leaver
Thursday, 6 October 2016
International publisher Quarto—which partners with Murdoch Books in Australia—is celebrating its 40th birthday this year. Portia Lindsay spoke to director Marcus Leaver about artistry and innovation in illustrated publishing. Publishing...
Booking ahead: 2017 fiction preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Several Australian authors make their long-awaited return to publishing next year, alongside some promising debuts. Andrea Hanke and Vicki Stegink round up publishers’ fiction highlights for 2017. (See nonfiction titles here.)...
On tour: Janine di Giovanni
Thursday, 6 October 2016
US foreign correspondent Janine di Giovanni’s latest book is The Morning They Came for Us (Bloomsbury), an account of the conflict in Syria. She will be touring Australia in February. ...
Talkback: Improving diversity
Thursday, 6 October 2016
What can publishing do to improve diversity? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Publishers need to ask themselves—am I being proactive about the diversity of the voice and author I am about to...
Reflections from differently angled mirrors: Terri-ann White on diversity in publishing
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The publishing industry needs to take a closer look at the diversity of its workforce and its books, argues UWA Publishing director, author and former bookseller Terri-ann White. As one’s...
Booking ahead: 2017 nonfiction preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Several Australian authors make their long-awaited return to publishing next year, alongside some promising debuts. Andrea Hanke and Vicki Stegink round up publishers’ nonfiction highlights for 2017. (See fiction titles here.)...
Jane’s addiction: Jane Covernton’s career journey
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
‘I had accidentally stumbled upon the job of my life,’ writes Jane Covernton about her entry into children’s publishing. The co-founder of Omnibus Books and more recently, Working Title Press,...
On tour: Lionel Shriver
Thursday, 28 July 2016
US author Lionel Shriver’s latest book, The Mandibles (HarperCollins), follows a family in the near future as they contend with the ruin of their fortunes in the aftermath of a...
On tour: Angela Flournoy
Thursday, 28 July 2016
Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House (Black Inc.) is a sprawling domestic drama that tells the story of Detroit through the generations of one family. She will be attending Melbourne Writers...
