Ramona Koval’s ‘Bloodhound: Searching for My Father’
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Journalist Ramona Koval has carved a reputation as a consummate book critic and interviewer. Her passion for storytelling and sharp analysis is turned inwards in Bloodhound: Searching for My Father,...
HarperCollins acquires rights to Tim Cahill autobiography
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the autobiography of Australian soccer player Tim Cahill.Cahill has played over 80 games for Australia and is the country’s top goal scorer, including five World Cup goals....
Inaugural Historical Novel Society conference to be held in March
Friday, 13 February 2015
The inaugural Historical Novel Society of Australasia (HNSA) conference will be held in Sydney from 20-22 March.The conference opens with a reception and a debate on the relationship between historical...
Joint Australia-New Zealand library conference announced
Thursday, 12 February 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) have announced they will hold a joint library conference in Australia in 2018 and another in...
On tour: Meet the author Roxane Gay
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Roxane Gay is the writer of the novel An Untamed State (Corsair) and the collection of essays Bad Feminist (Corsair). She will be a guest of Adelaide Writers’ Week and...
Josephine Moon’s ‘The Chocolate Promise’
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
The Chocolate Promise offers a Tasmanian twist on the movie Chocolat; its heroine Christmas Livingston—who is more fairy godmother than seductress—runs a boutique chocolate shop outside of Launceston. Staunchly single,...
Hardie Grant’s Roxy Ryan reports from Digital Book World
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
‘The ability for booksellers and publishers to articulate, reach and engage readers in their products is something that they can do better than anyone else,’ writes Hardie Grant marketing director...
Newcastle Writers Festival launches 2015 Kids Program
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Newcastle Writers Festival has launched its 2015 Kids Program, running from 16-21 March 2015. Guest speakers include Melina Marchetta, Garth Nix, Susaire Dunn and Kaz Delaney. The festival will include...
Hardie Grant’s Roxy Ryan reports from Digital Book World
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
‘The ability for booksellers and publishers to articulate, reach and engage readers in their products is something that they can do better than anyone else,’ writes Hardie Grant marketing director...
Jen Craig’s ‘Panthers and the Museum of Fire’
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
The year 2015 is only in its early days, but already I know that Sydney writer Jen Craig’s novella, Panthers and the Museum of Fire, will be among my top...
Controversy over Canadian YA award-winner
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid, a YA book about a transgender teen that won Canada’s 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, is proving controversial, reports Publishing Perspectives....
Mills appointed children’s and YA publishing director at A&U
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Allen & Unwin has appointed Eva Mills as publishing director of children’s and YA books. (See news.)
Authors on income and acquisitions in a changing industry
Thursday, 29 January 2015
‘As in the movie industry, the temptation will be for publishers to concentrate their resources on a very limited number of titles and let the others fend for themselves,’ writes...
James Bradley’s ‘Clade’
Thursday, 29 January 2015
In his first novel in 10 years, James Bradley writes about the members of an extended family in a soft-dystopian near-future, where violent climate events have brought rapid changes to...
Mills appointed children’s and YA publishing director at A&U
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Eva Mills has been appointed publishing director of children’s and YA books at Allen & Unwin (A&U).Mills has been a publisher of children’s and YA books at the company since 2009, and...
New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
A new Australian-made app that lets parents read books with their children when they’re away from home launched on the Apple iTunes store in late December.The Quality Time app, which is available for iPad, with...
‘Visually sophisticated, quirky, funny and daring’: Mike Shuttleworth reports from the Paris children’s book festival
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
‘While it’s true that the French embrace topics and styles that more timid Anglophone picture book publishers would reject, right now, France is producing some of the finest books for...
Charles Hall’s ‘Summer’s Gone’
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Summer’s Gone, a debut novel by Melbourne writer Charles Hall, is a coming-of-age story set in the 1960s that mingles nostalgia with tragedy; Beatles-mania with backyard abortions. Its protagonist Nick...
No more ‘nice’ books: Jackie French’s Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
‘Each time I visit schools I ask the teachers to please close their eyes while the children raise their hands when asked, “Hands up, who hates reading?” At least 30...
Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich’s ‘One Step at a Time’
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
MidnightSun ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to finance its first picture book. It is an unusual and challenging book to launch its children’s list. It is touching and tragic, but also...
What’s coming from page to screen in 2015?
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Angelina Jolie’s adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken (Fourth Estate), Clint Eastwood’s take on Chris Kyle’s autobiography American Sniper (HarperCollins), and an adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (Atlantic Books) starring Reese Witherspoon...
Debra Oswald’s ‘Useful’
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
At his nadir, Sullivan Moss stuffs up his own suicide attempt and is forced to reflect on his unreliable, selfish, underachieving ways. He strikes on the idea of doing something...
Majority of kids looking for books with humour, according to Scholastic report
Friday, 12 December 2014
Seventy-three percent of kids aged six to 17 say they would read more ‘if I could find more books that I like’ and another 70% say they want books that...
What’s publishing in 2015?
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
In the final issue of Books+Publishing for 2014 we asked publishers to share their top titles for the new year. Among the highlights are new books from Kate Grenville, Geraldine...
Dianne Touchell’s ‘A Small Madness’
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Rose is in Year 12, happy spending time with her best friend Liv and being madly in love with her perfect boyfriend Michael. Then suddenly, she finds out she’s pregnant...
HarperCollins acquires memoir by Rosie Batty
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
HarperCollins has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir by Rosie Batty. Rosie’s Story, written with Bryce Corbett, will be published in late 2015. ‘We see Rosie’s Story as...
Inaugural ‘Bookseller’ YA Book Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 5 December 2014
Ten books are in the running for UK book publication the Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. They are: Goose (Dawn O’Porter, Hot Key Books), Say Her Name (James Dawson, Hot...
A splendid assortment: Denise Tilley on the history of Birchalls in Launceston
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
In 1844 Birchalls opened in Launceston, Tasmania, with an advertisement in the local paper promising a ‘splendid assortment of books, stationery, fancy goods, etc’. The store continues to stock an...
Rebecca Starford’s ‘Bad Behaviour’
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Being a 14-year-old girl can be brutal, and Bad Behaviour is Melbourne-based editor Rebecca Starford’s memoir of a harrowing year spent at a posh boarding school’s bush campus. Starford lived in a...
YA journal ‘Viewpoint’ to cease publication
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
The YA journal Viewpoint will cease publication in 2014 due to ‘changing circumstances’, the publication announced in its final edition. Viewpoint was established by Pam Macintyre and Stella Lees in 1992 as...
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