Valdur the Viking and the Ghostly Goths (Craig Cormick, Ford Street)
Friday, 1 July 2016
Valdur the Viking is having a pretty bad day. First, his pet dog Ragna—who is maybe a dragon—eats the last pickle. Then his father and most of their ship’s crew...
PRH to launch ‘Penguin Living’ events
Friday, 1 July 2016
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is launching a series of lifestyle events under the brand Penguin Living, reports the Bookseller. The events will promote authors and experts specialising...
Character building: Melina Marchetta on ‘Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil’
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Melina Marchetta’s Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil (Viking, September) is ‘an electrifying contemporary detective thriller’ that ‘explores Europe’s simmering anti-Muslim sentiments’ in the aftermath of a bus bomb, writes...
On tour: Meg Rosoff
Thursday, 30 June 2016
YA author Meg Rosoff will be appearing at Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals in August and September to discuss her first novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed (Bloomsbury) What would you...
Le Chateau (Sarah Ridout, Echo Publishing)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
In Le Chateau, Charlotte de Chastenet awakens from a coma with no memory of her husband Henri, her daughter Ada, her overbearing mother-in-law The Madame, or her luscious life in...
The Hate Race (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s storytelling in The Hate Race has a heft to it that is at once steeped in history, and also exquisitely and playfully modern; it is lyrical, sincere...
Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex (ed by Karen Pickering, UQP)
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Fucking, boning, rooting, getting laid, making love, banging, shagging—there are a lot of phrases we can use to refer to sex. ‘Doing it’ is Karen Pickering’s favourite, and it is...
‘Take Me to the River’ wins 2016 Margaret Medcalf Award
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Julian Bolleter has won the 2016 Margaret Medcalf Award for his book Take Me to the River: The Story of Perth’s Foreshore (UWA Publishing). The Margaret Medcalf Award rewards excellence...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 10 June 2016
Please note that, due to the Queen's Birthday holiday on Monday (in all states except Queensland and Western Australia), the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 14 June.
ABA conference attracts 300 attendees; ‘Funder, Deng and Barnesy’ among the highlights
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Approximately 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, which was held in Canberra from 29-30 May. ABA chief executive Joel Becker said he...
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...
The Toymaker (Liam Pieper, Hamish Hamilton)
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...
Project Manager—Research Publications, Canberra
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
AIATSIS The Project Manager—research publications is responsible for coordinating our research publishing activities. This includes managing peer review processes, editing and production management, managing contracts and preparing publications for online delivery...
Translated lit fiction selling better than English lit fiction in the UK, survey finds
Friday, 13 May 2016
A survey in the UK has found that translated fiction sales have almost doubled in the past 15 years, while the overall market for fiction has declined, reports the Guardian....
Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (Ashleigh Wilson, Text)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
It just so happens that I was reading Our Man Elsewhere by Thornton McCamish and considering what makes a good biography when Ashleigh Wilson’s Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the...
Songs That Sound like Blood (Jared Thomas, Magabala)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Growing up in Port Augusta is restricting Roxy’s dream to become a musician, but when she is accepted to Adelaide University’s Centre of Aboriginal Studies in Music, she feels conflicted...
Remaking history: Kate Mildenhall on ‘Skylarking’
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Kate Mildenhall’s Skylarking (Black Inc., August) is a historical novel about an intense female friendship. Reviewer Angela Andrewes spoke to the author. Skylarking is based on historical events. What drew...
Your store: Non-book item of the month
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
This pack of three acrylic coffee templates from DOIY Design helps spruce up your morning coffee whether you’ve got a barista’s skills or not. Each come with three shapes—a love...
On tour: Hanya Yanagihara
Friday, 29 April 2016
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your latest book? A fairytale about male romance set in someplace that feels a lot like New York City in a time...
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft (Tom Griffiths, Black Inc.)
Friday, 29 April 2016
History, writes Tom Griffiths, is ‘the fundamental fabric of a common humanity’. In The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft, the Canberra-based academic and historian examines how writers...
The polyphonic read: Rajith Savanadasa on ‘Ruins’
Friday, 29 April 2016
Told from the perspectives of five characters, Rajith Savanadasa’s Ruins is ‘a riveting debut that examines the intricacies of class, racial and generational divides in contemporary Sri Lanka’, writes reviewer...
Wood Green (Sean Rabin, Giramondo)
Friday, 29 April 2016
Sean Rabin’s debut novel Wood Green begins as a quiet, small-town Australian drama and ends, spectacularly, as a bizarre metafictional parable on literary influence that a young David Cronenberg would...
Fiction that slays: Julie Koh on ‘Portable Curiosities’
Friday, 1 April 2016
Julie Koh’s debut short story collection Portable Curiosities (UQP, June) ‘takes a magnifying glass to Australia’s greatest fallacies’, writes reviewer Sonia Nair. She spoke to the author. How does the...
A novella approach: Nick Earls on the ‘Wisdom Tree’ series
Friday, 1 April 2016
Nick Earls’ Gotham (Inkerman & Blunt) is the first of five interlinked novellas that will be released each month from May to September. Reviewer Carody Culver spoke to Earls about...
Ditmar, Norma K Hemming winners announced
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
The winners of the 2016 Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing were announced at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention: Contact2016 in Brisbane on 27 March. The...
ABIA 2016 longlists announced
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
The longlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. They are: General fiction book of the year The Lake House (Kate Morton, A&U) Close Your Eyes...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2016 program announced
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
The program for the 2016 Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 30 April to 1 May in Clunes, Victoria, has been announced. This year the festival celebrates its 10th...
The Dry (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
Monday, 21 March 2016
In the tiny town of Kiewarra, a mother and son are found murdered. The likely culprit is the father, also found shot dead in the back of his truck. It...
Avalanche: A Love Story (Julia Leigh, Hamish Hamilton)
Monday, 21 March 2016
Author and director Julia Leigh began IVF treatment at 38, knowing that the odds were stacked against her yet still hoping that she would be ‘one of the lucky ones’....
Your store: Non-book item of the month
Monday, 21 March 2016
While book-lovers are unlikely to be lost for conversation topics, these TableTopics conversation cards could liven up a retro dinner party or an awkward internet date. Each TableTopics cube has...
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