Kate Gordon on ‘Xavier in the Meantime’
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Kate Gordon's latest book is a companion novel to her CBCA award–winning Aster's Good, Right Things. Xavier in the Meantime (Riveted Press, February) is a 'sensitive but unflinching' story of...
Reality bites: 2022 nonfiction preview
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
New books by Hannah Gadsby, Tom Tilley, Osman Faruqi and Kim Mahood are among next year’s most anticipated nonfiction releases. Here's a look at Australian publisher’s 2022 nonfiction titles. Memoir and...
Career path: Johannes Jakob
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Johannes Jakob began his publishing career as an editor at Express Media's Voiceworks magazine. He is now an editor at Penguin Random House Australia, and won the 2021 IPEd Rosie...
Stories we tell: 2022 fiction preview
Thursday, 4 November 2021
New novels from literary heavyweights Alexis Wright, Geraldine Brooks and Dervla McTiernan are among the Australian books releasing next year. Books+Publishing shares a sneak peek at Australian publishers’ 2022 fiction...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Bucheon’s Yong Books
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Today we...
The road not taken: One year on from the 2020 Beatrice Davis Fellowship report
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Following her 2020 Beatrice Davis Fellowship report 'It’s hard to be what you can’t see: Diversity Within Australian Publishing', Radhiah Chowdhury reflects on the experiences of those in the First...
Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh on ‘Family Tree’
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Singer–songwriter and children's book author Josh Pyke celebrates Australia's diverse and multicultural society in his latest picture book Family Tree (Scholastic, January) with illustrations by Ronojoy Ghosh. Reviewer Romi Sharp said...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Norwich’s The Book Hive
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Today we...
Shankari Chandran recommends
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
After Story by Larissa Behrendt (UQP). Now that my local bookstore is open, I’m ordering copies for my friends and then I’m going to pretend I haven’t read it so...
Shankari Chandran on ‘Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens’
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Shankari Chandran's third novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo, January) centres on the Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home and the community fostered by the Tamil family who run it. Set...
Booksellers celebrate LYBD in and out of lockdown
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
This year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) took place on Saturday, 9 October, with official celebrations by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) taking place online due to the ongoing lockdown...
Amplify Bookstore’s Christmas picks
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop's top picks in anticipation of the gift-giving season. This...
Stephanie Parkyn on ‘The Freedom of Birds’
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
The Freedom of Birds (A&U, December) is Stephanie Parkyn's third novel, completing the loose historical trilogy that began with Into the World and Josephine's Garden (A&U). As the French Empire...
November reviews round-up
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Come November two highly anticipated essay collections from two prominent Australian scholars will be hitting bookshelves: Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP) and Doing Politics: Writing on public...
Career path: Cate Blake
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Cate Blake began her publishing career at Penguin Random House Australia as an editorial assistant. In 2018 she was nominated for the inaugural ABIA Rising Star Award for her role...
Freya Blackwood on ‘The Boy and the Elephant’
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Freya Blackwood is a Greenaway Medallist and seven-time CBCA winner whose picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Her latest book, The Boy and the Elephant (HarperCollins, November) is a tender, wordless picture book...
Exploring the natural world: Australian environment-themed children’s books
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
The forthcoming final edition for 2021 of Books+Publishing’s sister publication Think Australian is shining a light on Australian titles ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair. In this sneak peek, Think Australian rounds...
Monica McInerney recommends
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
I’ve been reading so many brilliant books by Australian authors in the past 18 months, but I’d like to shine a spotlight on two debut novelists I worked with through the Australian...
#BookTok 101: Your guide to a major new force in publishing
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
TikTok's #BookTok hashtag recently saw backlist titles It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid, S&S) make their way into the...
Monica McInerney on ‘Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat’
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat (Puffin, November) is Monica McInerney's first book for children. Set in South Australia, it follows Marcie Gill as she tackles family troubles with...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Azil in Ljubljana
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Novi trg is one...
October reviews round-up
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
In October, highly anticipated new novels from Michelle de Kretser, Jennifer Down and Emily Bitto will be hitting bookshelves. From de Kretser is Scary Monsters, a novel in two parts...
Chelsea Watego on ‘Another Day in the Colony’
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Chelsea Watego is an Indigenist health humanities scholar, prolific writer and public intellectual. Her debut essay collection Another Day in the Colony (UQP, November) examines the ongoing racism faced by...
Bookselling in a pandemic: 18 months later
Monday, 23 August 2021
Brunswick Bound manager Ellen Cregan travelled to the United States in March 2020 as part of Melbourne City of Literature’s Bookseller in Residence program. Although her trip was cut short...
Corey Tutt recommends
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
My dear friend Terri Janke has just released a book called True Tracks (UNSW Press), which features a number of friends and distant relatives. I loved it because IP in...
Corey Tutt on ‘The First Scientists’
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Kamilaroi STEM advocate and founder of Deadly Science Corey Tutt is the author of The First Scientists (illus by Blak Douglas, Hardie Grant, October), which explores early and contemporary First...
Celebrating 75 years of the CBCA Book of the Year Award
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week—supported by a joint campaign by the ABA and the ASA encouraging people to 'shop local, read local'—kicks off this week following...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Angoulême’s La librairie de la bande dessinée et de l’image
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Angoulême in Southwestern...
Jennifer Down on ‘Bodies of Light’
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Jennifer Down's third book Bodies of Light (Text, October) follows protagonist Maggie as she reluctantly revisits a past she's fought to keep buried. Reviewer Jacqui Davies says 'despite its bleak...
September reviews round-up
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
In September, our reviewers enjoyed several forthcoming novels exploring themes of change, identity and relationships from Max Easton, Amal Awad and Jacquie Byron. Easton’s The Magpie Wing paints a ‘moving...
