Shining a light: Laura Elvery on ‘Trick of the Light’
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Laura Elvery’s debut short-story collection Trick of the Light (UQP, March) comprises 24 ‘meticulously crafted’ short stories ranging in style from ‘stark realism to light speculative fiction’, writes reviewer Alan...
Saudade (Suneeta Peres da Costa, Giramondo)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Sydney author Suneeta Peres da Costa’s novella Saudade will leave you feeling lost and homesick for a place of your own. Set in Angola’s fraught pre-independence period, Saudade follows Maria,...
Surviving Your Split: A Guide to Separation, Divorce and Family Law in Australia (Lucy and Rebekah Mannering, MUP)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The last thing I expected from reading Surviving Your Split: A Guide to Separation, Divorce and Family Law in Australia was enjoyment. I expected sound legal advice, helpful case studies,...
False Claims of Colonial Thieves (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
In False Claims of Colonial Thieves, Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella articulate a political poetry that responds to land occupation, resource exploitation and historical wrongdoing. They situate themselves as...
Women of a Certain Age (ed by Jodie Moffat, Maria Scoda & Susan Laura Sullivan, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Once women turn 50, society deems them ‘invisible’. Women of a Certain Age pushes against female invisibility by compiling warm and honest tales from notable Australians. Readers from many backgrounds...
Randomistas (Andrew Leigh, La Trobe University Press)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Randomised trials are scientific experiments that aim to clear the fog of our personal biases to arrive at the truth. Participants in a randomised trial are generally split into a...
In the Garden of Fugitives (Ceridwen Dovey, Hamish Hamilton)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Ceridwen Dovey is one of our best, most original writers. Her 2014 book, Only the Animals, was a compelling, beautifully constructed collection of unforgettable short stories. Her splendid new novel, In the...
The Shepherd’s Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Jaxie Clackton is a teenager on the run in the parched, unforgiving landscape bordering the salt lakes by the Western Australian desert. Convinced he’ll be held responsible for the accidental...
What the Light Reveals (Mick McCoy, Transit Lounge)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Mick McCoy’s third novel, What The Light Reveals, is an intelligent, tense and memorable story that opens in a world gripped by post-WWII fear and the looming threat of the...
You Belong Here (Laurie Steed, Margaret River Press)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
This debut novel from acclaimed short-story writer Laurie Steed explores the dissolution of a family that began as a teenage marriage. Set against the backdrop of a 1980s and 1990s...
Trick of the Light (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The 24 stories in Brisbane writer Laura Elvery’s debut collection Trick of the Light span countries and centuries, ranging stylistically from stark realism to light speculative fiction. Some are vignettes,...
The Ruin (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The Ruin is as much a morality tale as it is an incendiary page-turner. This superior, haunting novel of murder, deception and ethical dilemma is set in Galway, on Ireland’s...
Little Gods (Jenny Ackland, A&U)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Jenny Ackland’s second novel, Little Gods, couldn’t be mistaken for anything but an Australian book. The Mallee countryside leaps off the page with its great hulking peppercorns and flattened brown-farmland....
Apple and Knife (Intan Paramaditha, trans by Stephen J Epstein, Brow Books)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The universe within which Apple and Knife unfolds is both mythological and everyday—from office cubicles to rat-infested underground cities, sometimes in the same breath. Sydney-based Indonesian horror writer Intan Paramaditha’s...
Deadly Woman Blues (Clinton Walker, NewSouth)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Spanning over 150 years and featuring more than 100 artists, Clinton Walker's Deadly Woman Blues explores how the intricacies of gender, race and genre shaped a musical history in Australia...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 January 2018
The paperback edition of Michael Wolff’s insider account of the Trump White House, Fire and Fury (Hachette), has debuted at second spot on this week’s bestseller chart. It was the...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 January 2018
The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) continues its run as the country’s overall bestseller into the new year, heading up a top 10 chart that’s largely unchanged from the previous...
RiP Chris Player
Friday, 12 January 2018
The founder of specialist academic distributor Astam Books, Chris Player, has died. Footprint Books, which acquired Astam in 2006, supplied the following statement: ‘Sadly Chris Player passed away on Saturday,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 8 January 2018
Nonfiction and children’s fiction titles are performing well in the latest bestseller charts, for the week ending 30 December 2017. The top 10 bestsellers chart is led by 2017’s overall...
Bestsellers this week
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Penguin Random House have claimed a hat-trick at the top of this week’s overall bestseller charts, with Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients: Quick and Easy Food (Michael Joseph) in top spot,...
Christmas predictions: Gavin Williams from Matilda and Lindy Jones from Abbey’s
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Gavin Williams, owner...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 December 2017
Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food (Michael Joseph) has toppled Jeff Kinney’s The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid to become the overall bestseller in this week’s top...
Books+Publishing: 2017 highlights and plans for 2018
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Before the Christmas rush takes over for another year, we thought it would be helpful to fill you in on some of Books+Publishing’s activities in 2017 and plans for 2018....
Christmas predictions: Kym Bagley and Rivis Donnelly from Dymocks Melbourne
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our latest instalment, Dymocks...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 27 November 2017
Jeff Kinney’s latest ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ title, The Getaway (Puffin), is at number one in the top 10 chart for a second consecutive week, with Jamie Oliver’s 5...
Christmas predictions: Perth booksellers Bill Liddelow from Boffins Books and Jane Seaton from Beaufort Street Books
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Boffins Books co-owner...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is leading the children’s book charge in this week’s bestsellers charts, with the latest instalment in Kinney’s series topping both...
Introducing Scale Free Network
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network publishes unique picture books and graphic novels ‘inspired by the microscopic world’. Co-founder Gregory Crocetti spoke to Think Australian: Describe your company in under...
‘The 91-Storey Treehouse’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 16 November 2017
The latest instalments in several bestselling Australian junior-fiction series have made it into the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart for October, including Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse,...
Two Shaun Tan books coming in 2018
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan has two books coming out in 2018. Hachette Australia will publish Tan’s new picture book Cicada—about ‘a bug working in an office and all the...
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