Thursday, 29 April 2010
Andrea Hanke first worked at Bookseller+Publisher as a very over-qualified editorial assistant back in 2006. After a couple of years in London she has returned to the fold as editor...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
To quote our Weekly Book Newsletter (circa May 2009) at last year's annual Clunes 'Back to Booktown' fair: Rose Michael and her Arcade Publications colleague Dale Campisi (pictured) garnered local...

Tuesday, 27 April 2010
As the nation stopped to honour our Anzac soldiers this weekend, the book world was abuzz with new Anzac titles. The most mentioned chart usually features a few war-related titles...

Friday, 23 April 2010
From today's Crikey newsletter, former Bookseller+Publisher editor and literary blogger Angela Meyer writes: Are there too many literary awards in Australia, and is our oldest one 'slipping away'? If an Australian...

Friday, 23 April 2010
The program for the 7th Emerging Writers Festival (21 to 30 May, 2010) was launched at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne last night. New director Lisa Dempster said it would...

Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Since becoming Australia’s first MasterChef Julie Goodwin has been writing and testing recipes for her new cookbook Our Family Table (Random House), which has gained the top spot in the...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
As we noted in the March issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, writers festivals are a big deal not only in the big cities but also in regional centres. Mildura, in north-western...

Monday, 19 April 2010
[caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Scott Sigler author of 'Ancestor' (Hachette)"][/caption] Supanova, the 'pop culture expo' held in Melbourne over the weekend, drew thousands of science-fiction, fantasy and comic fans, and...

Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Michael Robotham's Bleed for Me (Sphere) took out the most mentions in Media Extra this week with five citings. Kate Howarth's Ten Hail Marys (UQP) is a local story in...

Wednesday, 31 March 2010
There’s a storm brewing in South Dakota and also on this weeks bestseller charts as Lee Child’s thriller 61 Hours (Bantam) blasts in to number one ahead of Stieg Larsson's...

Monday, 29 March 2010
Maggie Joel has followed up her first novel The Past and Other Lies with The Second-Last Woman in England (Pier 9, April), which received five stars in the April issue of...

Monday, 29 March 2010
The 50-year anniversary of architect Robin Boyd's The Australian Ugliness (Text) has arrived, along with an anniversary edition to commemorate it, featuring a foreword by Christos Tsiolkas. Boyd was a fierce...

Monday, 29 March 2010
This is one of those gorgeous cookbooks that you want to really read, not just cook from. As much a history of Heide—the house, the gallery, the people, the art,...

Thursday, 25 March 2010
The Somerset Celebration of Literature held its annual school literature festival from 15 to 19 March 2010 at Somerset College in Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Over 16,000 tickets...

Monday, 22 March 2010
Ian McEwan's Solar (Jonathan Cape), a 'comedy about climate change', received far and away the most mentions over the past week, but they haven't all been positive. ‘In spite of...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Penguin Australia has just announced the next 75 titles in its Popular Penguins list, to be released in July. They got the word out with this video, but we've rounded...

Wednesday, 3 March 2010
David Gaunt is the co-owner of Gleebooks, an independent bookselling chain about to open a new store in Dulwich Hill, NSW. He is also chair of the Indigenous Literacy Project,...

Monday, 1 March 2010
‘You write for the pleasure of putting words on a page.’ Marina Lewycka gave up on the idea of being published and then wrote the hit A Short History of...

Friday, 26 February 2010
Welcome, April Bookseller+Publisher magazine. We hope you enjoyed your trip from the printers. You really are a most delightful-looking publication. And what's that you say? You contain 45 reviews of...

Friday, 26 February 2010
Citing the rise of text-based social interactions such as Facebook and Twitter, Margaret Simons made the point at last night’s first official ‘Meanland’ event, that ‘text is everywhere, there is...

Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Are these the best Australian book covers you’ve seen in the past year? The Australian Publishers Association seems to think so—each of these books have been shortlisted in the ‘best...

Friday, 19 February 2010
As someone who takes every opportunity to read, I'm usually distraught when I've forgotten to put a book in my bag in the morning. Not anymore. I got my iPhone...