Emily Maguire’s ‘An Isolated Incident’
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘There has been a proliferation of pretty-dead-girl thrillers in the past few years and it shows no sign of letting up. But don’t let the trend fool you into thinking...
Charts this week
Monday, 7 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Macmillan 2 15th Affair James Patterson Century 3 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘A lot of editors are women, particularly in Australia, and I think that comes down to women wanting to work in something they really love doing and being prepared to...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold rights to The Lake House (Kate Morton) in the following territories: Estonian to Varrak; Bulgarian to Colibri; Russian to Exmo; Turkish to Alfa Basim Dayim Dagitim;...
Helen Garner’s ‘Everywhere I Look’
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘I’d probably give Helen Garner five stars for her shopping list; I’ve loved her work since Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books’ … read...
Does publicity sell books? A case study
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Last year, Captain Honey publishers Roz Hopkins and Natalie Winter successfully crowdfunded their illustrated children’s book Mummy and Mumma Get Married. In a recent blog post, Hopkins writes about the...
Charts this week
Monday, 29 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth Estate 2 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb Hachette 3 The Dressmaker (film...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘[I’m] grateful to Pan Macmillan for the foresight to set up the imprint in the first place’— Momentum publisher Joel Naoum on Pan Macmillan’s decision to scale down the publishing...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Sales Fiction—Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia has sold rights to See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt) in the following territories: ANZ to Hachette Australia in a two-book deal;...
Josephine Rowe’s ‘A Loving, Faithful Animal’
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘Like [Rowe’s] stories, A Loving, Faithful Animal distils the small incidents of ordinary life into moments of resonance and grace, but assuredly weaves them together across the longer form’ …...
Bright spark: Alison Whittaker on ‘Lemons in the Chicken Wire’
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Alison Whittaker received a black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship for her debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire. Reviewer Hilary Simmons says it ‘introduces her as a force to be...
Charts this week
Monday, 22 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb & Angharad Kowal Hachette 2 Blue Danielle Steel Bantam 3 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham...
Alice Grundy on OzCo’s exploratory trip to India
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
The Australia Council for the Arts supported a delegation of publishers and writers’ festival programmers to travel to India from 13-25 January to ‘investigate artistic development, market and exchange opportunities...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
‘It’s our belief that if a writer has gone to all the effort to put together a publishing proposal or manuscript, and that we have spent time actually reading it,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Sales Fiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold US rights to The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood) to Europa Editions New York in association with Pamela Malpas at Harold Ober...
Sarah Kanake’s ‘Sing Fox to Me’
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
‘Kanake deals in so many Gothic tropes—ghosts, implied incest, a stark natural landscape and the legacy of an earlier generation’s follies—that an alternative title for the book might well have...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Blue Danielle Steel Bantam 2 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham Duffy and Snellgrove 3 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
‘It’s a lovely thing for me because my books are on the subversive side, and also I think humorous books have been underestimated’—Leigh Hobbs on his appointment as the new...
S&S’s Larissa Edwards on the disruption in the publishing industry
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
‘The strength of the Australian market lies with the independent booksellers and chain booksellers, if they weather the storm. They are very strong and they are tastemakers; you can launch...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world Polish rights to Secrets of a Lazy French Cook (Marie-Morgane Le Moel) to Illuminatio Lukasz Kierus; and world Turkish rights to Corruption and Disruption (both...
Stan Grant’s ‘Talking to My Country’
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
‘The politics of Aboriginal identity cut to the bone of veteran journalist Stan Grant’s hybrid memoir/social commentary Talking to My Country’ … read Veronica Sullivan’s full review here.
Charts this week
Monday, 8 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham Duffy and Snellgrove 2 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth Estate 3 Old...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
‘An international player can buy directly here whereas Australian retailers can’t source supply from overseas. Either you believe in a free and open market or you don’t’—Dymocks managing director Steve...
Aoife Clifford’s ‘All These Perfect Strangers’
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
‘Debut author Aoife Clifford transports readers back to the late-eighties and early-nineties with her skilful use of dialogue and prose, never resorting to Bon Jovi or shoulder pad references; here,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Dutch rights to Rachel’s Legacy (Julie Thomas) to VBK Media. Nonfiction—Finch has sold simplified and complex Chinese, Czech, Thai, Korean and Polish rights to Unlocking Your...
Going the distance: Josephine Rowe on ‘A Loving, Faithful Animal’
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
‘I think structurally, tonally, Australian literature does allow for a certain amount of capaciousness and narrative drift. A more open idea of what shape a story might take. Often, when...
Charts this week
Monday, 1 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham Duffy and Snellgrove 2 Old School:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 3 NYPD Red...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 28 January 2016
‘It’s one thing for a producer or manufacturer to compete with a cheaper competitor. It’s another to compete with your own work being sold back cheaply in to your own...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Greek rights to In Certain Circles (Elizabeth Harrower) to Dardanos; Vietnamese rights to Skin (Ilka Tampke) to Women’s Publishing House; Japanese rights to I for Isobel...
Fiona McFarlane’s ‘The High Places’
Thursday, 28 January 2016
‘After receiving international accolades for her Miles Franklin-shortlisted debut novel The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane follows up with a short-story collection laden with wry wit and a deceptive simplicity’ …...
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