Bestsellers: Bluey back on top
Monday, 18 May 2020
Bluey: The Creek is back at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart after a two-week hiatus. During that time Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture was in the top...
Making connections: Cath Moore on ‘Metal Fish, Falling Snow’
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Cath Moore's debut YA novel Metal Fish, Falling Snow (Text, July) is an 'astonishingly original, heartfelt and funny' exploration of self-acceptance, identity and belonging, says reviewer Jacqui Davies. She spoke to...
Bestsellers: New Bluey board book debuts at number three
Monday, 11 May 2020
Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture is spending its second consecutive week at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart as a new Bluey board book, The Creek, has debuted in...
Browsing online: how has book buying changed during the pandemic?
Monday, 11 May 2020
Isolation, lockdown and the closure of physical bookstores have resulted in a massive spike in online retail. Books+Publishing investigates what book buying looks like during Covid-19 and asks whether the...
Bestsellers: Turnbull memoir debuts at number one
Monday, 4 May 2020
After seven consecutive weeks of Bluey at number one on the bestsellers chart, former PM Malcolm Turnbull has knocked her down to second spot with his memoir A Bigger Picture,...
‘Don’t presume to know how people will respond to your situation’: Small publisher Stormbird Press on coping with adversity
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
The small environment-themed publishing house Stormbird Press lost everything during Australia's bushfires in January. Publisher Margi Prideaux tells Books+Publishing how her year became 'slower and less ambitious, but maybe better...
Bestsellers: Novels dominate lockdown reading
Monday, 27 April 2020
Children are keeping busy in lockdown with the Bluey colouring book Big Backyard, which is spending its third consecutive week in the top spot on the bestsellers chart. Adult fiction...
Bestsellers: Kids books dominate top 10
Monday, 20 April 2020
Bluey continues to dominate the Australian bestsellers chart, with four titles in the top 10 including the Big Backyard colouring book, which is spending its second consecutive week in the...
‘Lean into the format’: Jaclyn Booton on announcing the Stella Prize online
Friday, 17 April 2020
On Tuesday night, Jess Hill was named winner of the 2020 Stella Prize for See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc.) at an online event presented in partnership with...
New Bluey debuts in top spot
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
A new Bluey title—Bluey: Big Backyard—has debuted at number one, ending the four-week streak of Bluey: Easter Fun!, which was bumped down to second spot. There were two other new...
Bestsellers: Fiction proves popular in pandemic
Monday, 6 April 2020
Bluey continues her four-week run in the number one spot with Bluey: Easter Fun!, but adult fiction dominates this week's charts. Marian Keyes' romantic comedy Grown Ups has moved up...
Welcome to the new Junior newsletter
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Mid-pandemic feels like a strange time to be revamping our Junior newsletter, but it also feels more vital than ever to spotlight our children's book creators and continue reporting the...
The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text)
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Davina Bell’s first young adult novel is unlike anything else written for the target audience. This becomes clear almost immediately upon beginning the book, when the identical twin protagonists, Summer...
Henry Turnip (Chloe Jasmine Harris, Walker Books)
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Henry Turnip is a panda who likes strawberry jam sandwiches with the crusts cut off, reading about the ocean, and his seven sets of blue-striped overalls. He dislikes mess, too...
The Dark Tide (Alicia Jasinska, Penguin)
Thursday, 2 April 2020
The island city of Caldella is sinking, and the only way to hold back the tide is through an annual ritual sacrifice performed by the cold, distant Witch Queen. When...
Eloise and the Bucket of Stars (Janeen Brian, Walker Books)
Thursday, 2 April 2020
For nearly 13 years Eloise Pail has dreamed of a family and life outside the orphanage. But year after year Eloise is left under the watchful gaze of Sister Hortense,...
In our nature: Robbie Arnott on ‘The Rain Heron’
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
The Rain Heron (Text, June), Robbie Arnott's follow-up to his 2018 debut Flames, blurs the line between reality and myth as its isolated protagonist is drawn to a soldier on...
Change Starts with Us (Sophie Beer, Little Hare)
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
This brightly coloured and accessible book sets out to empower young children and familiarise them with ways in which even the littlest of us can have an impact our world....
What Zola did on Monday (Melina Marchetta, illus by Deb Hudson, Puffin)
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Melina Marchetta is a novelist we normally associate with award-winning young adult fiction, and more recently her adult novels Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil and The Place on Dalhousie....
OzCo re-opens Arts and Disability Mentoring Initiative; Relief Fund to open Friday
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
The Australia Council has announced it will re-open applications for the Arts and Disability Mentoring Initiative and has extended the deadline to 14 April. The initiative was among those the...
Bestsellers: Australians retreat into fiction
Monday, 30 March 2020
Bluey: Easter Fun! is spending its third consecutive week at the top of the bestseller chart, while Bluey: Bob Bilby has moved up to second, swapping places with The Mirror...
We’re changing the way we deliver reviews
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Welcome to what will be the final Books+Publishing Reviews newsletter. Pre-publication book reviews continue to be a vital part of what we do, but we’re changing the way they are...
The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system (Patrick Mullins, Scribe)
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Starting even before Federation and lasting until the early 1970s, the Australian government controlled what Australians could read. Yet today, as Patrick Mullins recounts in this scintillating account of the rise and fall of Australian...
Father of the Lost Boys (Yuot A Alaak, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 26 March 2020
This shocking story should be better known: the attempt of more than 20,000 orphaned boys and thousands more refugee followers to survive amid the terrifying atrocities of the Second Sudanse...
Sticks and Stones (Katherine Firkin, Bantam)
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Detective senior constable Emmett Corban works for Missing Persons, a department under threat of downsizing: most of the people they’re looking for don’t want to be found. When a man...
Rise & Shine (Patrick Allington, Scribe)
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Patrick Allington’s second novel takes place in an allegorical dystopia following an ambiguous apocalypse. The cities of Rise and Shine have emerged from these ashes thanks to the efforts of...
CYL may be gone but YA can still thrive through grassroots advocacy
Wednesday, 25 March 2020
In her first op-ed as Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh investigates the vacuum left by the shuttering of the Centre for Youth Literature last year, and what can be...
Bestsellers: ‘The Mirror and the Light’ ascends the chart
Monday, 23 March 2020
Bluey's new Easter book (Bluey: Easter Fun!) is spending its second consecutive week at the top of the bestsellers chart, followed by Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light at number...
The History of Mischief
Thursday, 19 March 2020
Following the death of their parents, Jessie and Kay move to an abandoned house where one night they discover The History of Mischief hidden beneath the floor: it is a...
Where is Claris in Paris!
Thursday, 19 March 2020
A brand-new search-and-find series starring Claris, the chicest mouse in Paris! With a quarter of a million Claris books in print, readers can’t get enough of this stylish little mouse!...
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