Talkback: Changes to penalty rates
Monday, 21 March 2016
Do you think penalty rates need to change for Australian retailers? Books+Publishing asked two booksellers. Given that penalty rates were established in 1947 to compensate people working outside ‘normal hours’, and that...
On tour: Jon Klassen
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Canadian author Jon Klassen’s We Found a Hat, the third book in his picture-book trilogy (Candlewick Press) that includes I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat,...
On tour: Patrick deWitt
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Canadian author Patrick deWitt’s latest novel Undermajordomo Minor (Granta) is a black comedy of manners. He will be visiting the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February. What...
On tour: Muriel Barbery
Thursday, 25 February 2016
French author Muriel Barbery’s latest novel The Life of Elves (Text) is the story of two children whose amazing abilities ‘bring them into contact with magical worlds’. She will travel...
On tour: Patrick Gale
Thursday, 25 February 2016
British writer Patrick Gale’s latest book, A Place Called Winter (Tinder Press), follows the life of Edwardian gentleman Harry Cane as he is forced to relocate to the newly colonised...
On tour: Joanna Walsh
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
British writer Joanna Walsh has been published in Granta, the London Review of Books, and the Guardian. Her latest book Hotel (Bloomsbury) is a cultural study of hotels that is...
On tour: Lucy Cousins
Thursday, 4 February 2016
English writer and illustrator Lucy Cousins is the creator of the ‘Maisy’ books. She will be travelling to the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February/March and appearing...
On tour: Katherine Rundell
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Katherine Rundell is the author of children’s books The Wolf Wilder (Bloomsbury) and Rooftoppers (Faber). She will be appearing at the Perth Writers Festival in February. What would you put...
On tour: Lauren Groff
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Lauren Groff is the author of Fates and Furies (William Heinemann), a portrait of a marriage told from two points-of-view. She is appearing at Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’...
On tour: Lisa Genova
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Lisa Genova is the author of Still Alice and Inside the O’Briens (S&S), which examines the effect Huntington’s disease on an Irish-Catholic family in the US. She is travelling to...
On tour: Jasper Fforde
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Jasper Fforde is the author of the ‘Thursday Next’ literary detective series and the ‘Last Dragonslayer’ fantasy series. His latest book in the latter series is The Eye of Zoltar...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2015
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth issue for 2015 is out now! Inside you’ll find 18 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in November 2015 to February 2016. The highest-rated adult books...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2015
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2015 is out now! Inside you’ll find 30 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in September, October and November. Just one adult book scored...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 2 2015
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Books+Publishing magazine’s second issue for 2015 is out now! Inside you’ll find 26 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in June, July and August. Two adult nonfiction titles scored...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 1 2015
Monday, 16 February 2015
Make sure you grab a copy of Books+Publishing magazine’s first issue of 2015! Inside you’ll find 21 reviews of adult books and 17 reviews of children’s books publishing between March...
Craig Cliff on ‘the trans-Tasman literary gulf’ and how to bridge it
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
In Melbourne, author Eleanor Catton and I appeared in a session called ‘New New Zealand Fiction’. If the session’s blurb in the program is anything to go by, the festival...
