Bestsellers this week
Monday, 24 October 2016
The film tie-in edition of The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins, Black Swan) has climbed to the top of this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, with Working Class Boy...
Small publisher spotlight: Connor Court Publishing
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Founded in 2005 in Ballarat, Victoria, and now based in Redland Bay, Queensland, Connor Court Publishing specialises in titles that ‘challenge the status quo’. Founder Anthony Cappello spoke to Books+Publishing...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 17 October 2016
The top three titles in the bestsellers chart remain unchanged this week, with Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Boy (HarperCollins) in first place for the third week in a row, followed...
The Thank You Dish (Trace Balla, A&U)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Thank You Dish is a whimsical picture book from Trace Balla, author and illustrator of Rivertime and Rockhopping. The book centres on Grace and Mama, who are thanking the people,...
Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys’ previous collaboration was the superb, award-winning The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, and their follow-up, Under the Love Umbrella, has a similar charm—if not quite the same...
Ballad for a Mad Girl (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Grace is the prankster in her group of friends, the odd one of the odd ones out. She’s always been known for taking a joke further, and for being the...
The Turnkey (Allison Rushby, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Witnessing the turbulence and devastation of World War II during the London Blitz would prove challenging for any 12-year-old girl, but Flossie Birdwhistle is no ordinary girl—she is a ghost....
Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky (Robert Newton, Puffin)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Thirteen-year-old Lexie lives in a grey housing commission flat in Melbourne and dreams of starting a new life on the Sunshine Coast. She’s struggling to deal with her junkie mum,...
A Walk in the Bush (Gwyn Perkins, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Iggy has to be coaxed out of his various hidey holes to visit the great outdoors. With his keen guardian (possibly a grandfather), Iggy is taken to the bush and...
1, 2 Pirate Stew (Kylie Howarth, Five Mile Press)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
This book is all about the joy of playing in a cardboard box, which seems to have been largely replaced these days by more complicated activities, but is still a...
And Then I Found Me (Noel Tovey, Magabala Books)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Noel Tovey has led an amazing life. He went from a terrible childhood of deprivation and abuse to become one of Australia’s great artistic exports, before returning home to be...
No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson (Jeff Sparrow, Scribe)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an African-American singer, actor and political activist. His father was a slave, yet Robeson was able to carve out an acting and music career despite facing...
Jean Harley Was Here (Heather Taylor Johnson, UQP)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Heather Taylor Johnson’s second novel Jean Harley Was Here is an exploration of grief, with each chapter presenting a different glimpse into the aftermath of the character Jean Harley’s death,...
The Green Bell: A Memoir of Love, Madness and Poetry (Paula Keogh, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Paula Keogh suffers a breakdown following the death of her best friend Julianne. It is while undergoing treatment in M Ward—the psychiatric unit of Canberra Hospital—that she meets the poet...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 10 October 2016
Hannah Kent’s second novel The Good People (Picador) has debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart at number eight—making it this week’s highest new entry. It’s followed on the highest...
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....
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...
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. ...
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,...
Small publisher spotlight: Niche Press
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Founded in 2014, Melbourne-based Niche Press specialises in ‘quirky smaller-scale publications’ that might get overlooked by the mass market. Founder Michael Carolan spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’...
Gus Dog Goes to Work (Rachel Flynn, illus by Craig Smith, Working Title)
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Gus Dog Goes to Work chronicles all the tremendously exciting things a well-meaning sheepdog could possibly get involved with when (inexplicably) his owner doesn’t follow the usual routine of taking...
Our Dog Benji (Pete Carter & James Henderson, EK Books)
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Many kids are fussy eaters; many dogs are not. With this simple premise Pete Carter sets up his picture book, ably supported by illustrator James Henderson. Benji, the little boy’s...
Diamond Jack: History Mysteries Book One (Mark Greenwood, Puffin)
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Even as World War II rages, Jack Palmer spends his time on his boat wandering up and down the coast of Western Australia. Meanwhile, the Imperial Japanese army are on...
Lisette’s Paris Notebook (Catherine Bateson, A&U)
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
When Lisette arrives in Paris for the summer, she thinks she’s prepared. She has a great wardrobe, she’s staying with her mother’s psychic, and surely before long she’ll be checking...
Valentine (Jodi McAlister, Penguin)
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
A strange, black-as-midnight horse appears during a party. Frustratingly good-looking Finn throws a horseshoe at it, scaring it off before Marie can pat it and adding to the list of...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 3 October 2016
Working Class Boy, the first instalment of Jimmy Barnes’ two-book autobiography (HarperCollins), has debuted at number one on the bestsellers chart this week. This ends the long-running reign of The...
Small publisher spotlight: UWA Publishing
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
UWA Publishing was launched in 1935 at the University of Western Australia in Perth to produce textbooks for its students, and has since expanded into general fiction, poetry and nonfiction....
Yearning potential: Lucy Durneen on ‘Wild Gestures’
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
UK writer Lucy Durneen’s Wild Gestures debut short story collection will be published by South-Australian publisher MidnightSun in January. It is an ‘intriguing collection’ of ‘psychologically acute portraits … shaped...
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