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On tour: Tamora Pierce 

Thursday, 2 June 2016
US author Tamora Pierce has written a number of YA series, including ‘The Song of the Lioness’ and the ‘Circle of Magic’. She will be travelling to Australia for the...

Princess Parsley (Pamela Rushby, Omnibus) 

Princess Parsley cover Thursday, 2 June 2016
Poor Parsley Patterson. As if it’s not hard enough starting high school, her dad decides to secede from Australia, making 12-year-old Parsley and her younger sisters (Sage, Rosemary and Thyme—the...

Small publisher spotlight: Aulexic 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
WA-based publisher Aulexic specialises in books for children with language and literacy difficulties, launching its first titles in 2015. CEO and publisher Rebecca Laffar-Smith spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Sydney Writers’ Festival guest and US author and feminist Gloria Steinem has shot up the bestseller chart this week. Her memoir My Life on the Road (Nero) was the week’s...

Between the bars: Elspeth Muir on ‘Wasted’ 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Elspeth Muir’s memoir Wasted (Text) explores Australia’s drinking culture through her relationship with her younger brother Alexander, who died when he jumped off a Brisbane bridge while drunk. It is...

On tour: Anne Bishop 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
US fantasy writer Anne Bishop is travelling to Sydney and Perth in June. Her latest book Marked in Flesh (Penguin US) is the fourth book in ‘The Others’ series. What...

Love Elimination (Sarah Gates, Mira) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Readers who enjoy the drama of television shows such as The Bachelor will appreciate the premise of Love Elimination by Sarah Gates. Anna Hobbs is so close to her dream...

After the Carnage (Tara June Winch, UQP) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Tara June Winch focsuses on shared humanity in this collection of short stories. Her protagonists belong to groups dismissed by the white, straight, middle-class eye: in ‘Happy’, a gay couple...

The Priests (James M Miller, Finch Publishing) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
In this harrowing memoir, James Miller, a successful solicitor and academic author, describes a young adulthood stolen and a life spent in hell. In 1978, at the age of 15,...

Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
We don’t see much formally innovative, experimental writing in Australian fiction—realist narratives tend to rule the roost. Also rare is genuinely fine comic writing. Enter then Ryan O’Neill, who, with...

The Paper House (Anna Spargo-Ryan, Picador) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Anna Spargo-Ryan has a strong voice on social media and in shorter-form writing, advocating for mental-health awareness by being honest about her own raw experiences with mental illness. Her debut...

The Island Will Sink (Briohny Doyle, Brow Books) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
Local literary journal The Lifted Brow makes its first foray into trade publishing with this debut speculative-fiction novel by regular Brow columnist Briohny Doyle. In the middle-distant future, major ecological...

Ghost Empire (Richard Fidler, ABC Books) 

Thursday, 26 May 2016
In Ghost Empire radio presenter Richard Fidler recounts his travels to Rome and Istanbul with his 14-year-old son, exploring the fabled Land Walls of Constantinople and undertaking a rite of...

The Toymaker (Liam Pieper, Hamish Hamilton) 

The Toymaker Thursday, 26 May 2016
From the first few pages of The Toymaker it’s obvious that Liam Pieper isn’t pulling any punches: he has your attention straight away as his privileged, wealthy protagonist Adam makes...

Small publisher spotlight: Spinifex Press 

Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Melbourne-based feminist publisher Spinifex Press has been publishing since 1991. The biggest challenge, say co-founders Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein, has been ‘resisting being pigeon-holed’. ‘As a feminist press there...

ALIA reveals Australia’s most borrowed library books

the girl on the train cover Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2016 to mark the start of Library and Information Week, which...

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 23 May 2016
David Baldacci’s The Last Mile (Macmillan) has held on to top spot in the overall bestsellers chart this week, ahead of The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo book one...

Small publisher spotlight: Aboriginal Studies Press 

Wednesday, 18 May 2016
ACT-based Aboriginal Studies Press has been publishing titles since 1987, including The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia, which has sold over 50,000 copies. ‘Like many...

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 16 May 2016
Two children’s and YA titles are among the three new books to enter the bestsellers chart this week, with book one in Rick Riordan’s new ‘The Trials of Apollo’ series...

Small publisher spotlight: Click-Cloud Publishing 

Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Established in 2014, Sydney-based Click-Cloud Publishing specialises in children’s fiction, adult nonfiction and Macedonian translations. Founder Alison Giles spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company...

 

 

 

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