Monday, 21 July 2014
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablet technologies. She shares her career journey. I grew up in a creative...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Spearheading UWA Publishing’s poetry for the next few months is the notable collection Poems 1957-2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann (July), one of Australia’s most distinguished living poets. Poems explores human nature...

Monday, 21 July 2014
US author Meg Wolitzer’s first novel for young adults is Belzhar (S&S, September). She will be travelling to Melbourne Writers Festival in August. What would you put on a shelf-talker...

Monday, 21 July 2014
For anyone who’s ever considered the expatriate life, Sydney writer Rachel Weiss shares its adventures and challenges in her memoir about life in the Czech capital The Thing about Prague...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Philip Bray, co-owner of Brays Books in Balmain, Sydney, is ‘fast approaching retirement’. He shares his ideas for the future of the book industry. You might expect an old bloke, fast...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Val McDermid’s latest book is The Skeleton Road (Little, Brown, September). She is visiting Australia in September. What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? Gripping storytelling with characters...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Brad Jefferies finds out what publishers have planned for Christmas.Jolly polliesThis Christmas brings a bumper crop of political biographies. One of the most-anticipated is Julia Gillard’s memoir. The former Prime...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Literary heavyweights and weighty fashion books are on Andrea Hanke’s reading list.From the mastersColm Tóibín and Hilary Mantel have new books coming out in the next few months, which makes...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Instead of running a solo VIP shopping night this Christmas, Fiona Stager from Brisbane’s Avid Reader is planning to hold a joint event with a number of local retailers. The Shophop...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Is social media worth the time you’re putting into it? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers.Catherine Schulz, manager, Fullers Bookshop Hobart:Social media is hard to quantify. It’s also hard to be consistent...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Rural romance readers are spoilt for choice this month—especially if they love family dramas. Outback Ghost (Harlequin, October) is the third book in the ‘Bunyip Bay’ series by bestselling author...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The boom in self-publishing has led to the establishment of a number of different ‘self-publishing support services’. Brad Jefferies reports.Support services for self-published authors come in all shapes and sizes....

Monday, 21 July 2014
Readings recently launched a book-advice column staffed by the ‘experienced and extremely wise bookseller Agatha’. Readers can email their questions to askagatha@readings.com.au and a selection of responses will be published...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The first Sunday in September is the Day of the Dads. Tim Coronel rounds up some gift ideas for bookish dads. All are August or September releases. FictionFiction-reading dads have a...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Why do so many digital publishing start-ups fail? Zoe Dattner, co-founder of Sleepers Publishing and the Small Press Network, remembers the innovators. Back in early May, I received an email from a start-up...