Small publisher spotlight: Spinifex Press
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Melbourne-based feminist publisher Spinifex Press has been publishing since 1991. The biggest challenge, say co-founders Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein, has been ‘resisting being pigeon-holed’. ‘As a feminist press there...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. (Nero) has sold Russian rights to Forever Young: The Story of Troye Sivan (Alana Wulff) to AST Publishing Group. Acquisitions Fiction—Penguin has acquired ANZ rights to Loose...
Emily Gale’s ‘The Other Side of Summer’
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
‘A beautifully rendered portrayal of grief, family and leaving things behind, The Other Side of Summer is a welcome addition to the shelves of Australian middle fiction’ ... read Bec...
Charts this week
Monday, 23 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Last Mile David Baldacci Macmillan 2 The Hidden Oracle Rick Riordan Puffin 3 The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Michael Mosley Simon...
Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Mrs Whitlam’
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
‘This new book by Bruce Pascoe (Fox a Dog, Sea Horse) has plenty to satisfy any horse lover, but also deftly handles issues of race and privilege’ ... read Angela...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Sales Fiction—UQP has sold Turkish rights to The Midnight Dress (Karen Foxlee) to Gunisigi Publishing via UQP Turkish sub-agent The Kayi Agency; film rights to Blood (Tony Birch) to Lavarch...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
‘The argument is regularly heard that the arts should pay for themselves. This misunderstands the reality of subsidy, because the fact is that there are very few areas of our...
Pricing our business: Terri-ann White on book prices
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White calls for industry-wide resistance to lower book prices and greater efficiency in distribution, including a ‘modified returns policy that kicks in with a minimum order...
Small publisher spotlight: Aboriginal Studies Press
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
ACT-based Aboriginal Studies Press has been publishing titles since 1987, including The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia, which has sold over 50,000 copies. ‘Like many...
Charts this week
Monday, 16 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Last Mile David Baldacci Macmillan 2 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 3 The Apartment Danielle Steel Bantam 4 The Hidden Oracle...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
‘Removing PIRs will result in the swamping of the Australian market with overseas products where the economies of scale are vastly different’—Spinifex Press publisher Susan Hawthorne argues against the repeal...
Small publisher spotlight: Click-Cloud Publishing
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Established in 2014, Sydney-based Click-Cloud Publishing specialises in children’s fiction, adult nonfiction and Macedonian translations. ‘All of our books have a cultural theme, whether it’s Indigenous, Russian, Chinese or Macedonian,...
Melanie Joosten’s ‘A Long Time Coming: Essays on Ageing’
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
‘Combining memoir, research and interviews, Joosten sheds light on the crises facing the elderly, and interrogates the “invisible turning point where we begin to punish the old for existing rather...
Neighbourhood watch: Strengthening ties between Oz and NZ publishing
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Melbourne Writers Festival program manager Jo Case travelled to New Zealand earlier this year to explore the opportunities and challenges for closer ties between our neighbouring publishing industries. Read her...
Charts this week
Monday, 9 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Last Mile David Baldacci Macmillan 2 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 3 The Apartment Danielle Steel Bantam 4 Life as I...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
‘PIR represents the little ledge of copyright security, the small acre, on which we have created a respected publishing industry, one of the largest in the world, and a treasure...
Small publisher spotlight: Monash University Publishing
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Melbourne-based Monash University Publishing released its first titles in 2010. It ‘combines a traditional concern for rigorous, open-minded scholarship and editorial precision and quality, with a contemporary sense of style...
Jane Harper’s ‘The Dry’
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
‘It is with this grim setting that we are drawn into Jane Harper’s world, which, though thoroughly steeped in the lore of crime fiction, does its best to subvert expectations...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Sales Fiction—Sandy Wagner at Sandy Wagner Creative Agents has sold world rights to Billy Sing (Ouyang Yu) to Transit Lounge. Text has sold rights to The Best of Adam Sharp...
A novella approach: Nick Earls on the ‘Wisdom Tree’ series
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Nick Earls’ Gotham (Inkerman & Blunt) is the first of five interlinked novellas that will be released each month from May to September. ‘The typical publishing approach to “Wisdom Tree” as...
Charts this week
Monday, 2 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 2 Crazy Weird:WeirDo Anh Do Scholastic 3 The Treehouse Fun Book Jill Griffiths & Andy Griffiths Pan...
Small publisher spotlight: Ford Street Publishing
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Melbourne-based Ford Street Publishing specialises in children’s and YA books, and released its first titles in 2007. ‘I don’t apply for grants from the Australia Council or other funding bodies,...
Pearce and co: a history of the Hobart Bookshop
Thursday, 28 April 2016
‘I started at the Hobart Bookshop almost 10 years ago—a trifling anniversary considering this year sees 70 years since the shop’s patriarch, Cedric Pearce, began in bookselling. Cedric passed away...
Julie Koh’s ‘Portable Curiosities’
Thursday, 28 April 2016
‘Armed with an uncanny ability to capture the zeitgeist of the time, … Julie Koh’s darkly satirical and convulsively funny short-story collection Portable Curiosities is as unsettling as it is...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 28 April 2016
‘The battle to get children’s literature taken seriously will never be concluded, because so many adults are invested in not doing so’—author and academic Catherine Butler in the Conversation
Charts this week
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 2 Crazy Weird: WeirDo Anh Do Scholastic 3 The Treehouse Fun Book Jill Griffiths & Andy Griffiths...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Sales: Nonfiction—Exisle has sold Indian English-language rights to Parenting for a Happier Home (Stuart Passmore). Children’s—Walker Books has sold Russian rights to Bogtrotter (Margaret Wild).
Georgia Blain’s ‘Between a Wolf and a Dog’
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
‘Georgia Blain’s Between a Wolf and a Dog explores the intricacies of modern family life with the emotional veracity you might expect of a book with a therapist as a...
Small publisher spotlight: Vine Leaves Press
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Established in 2014, Melbourne-based Vine Leaves Press specialises in book-length vignette, poetry and short-story collections, among other things. ‘With every submission we receive we ask ourselves, does this blur the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
‘I want to stake a claim for literature as an essential social benefit, in and of itself’—in her acceptance speech, Charlotte Wood explains why she will not be donating her...
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