Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich’s ‘One Step at a Time’
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
MidnightSun ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to finance its first picture book. It is an unusual and challenging book to launch its children’s list. It is touching and tragic, but also...
What’s coming from page to screen in 2015?
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Angelina Jolie’s adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken (Fourth Estate), Clint Eastwood’s take on Chris Kyle’s autobiography American Sniper (HarperCollins), and an adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (Atlantic Books) starring Reese Witherspoon...
Debra Oswald’s ‘Useful’
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
At his nadir, Sullivan Moss stuffs up his own suicide attempt and is forced to reflect on his unreliable, selfish, underachieving ways. He strikes on the idea of doing something...
What’s publishing in 2015?
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
In the final issue of Books+Publishing for 2014 we asked publishers to share their top titles for the new year. Among the highlights are new books from Kate Grenville, Geraldine...
Dianne Touchell’s ‘A Small Madness’
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Rose is in Year 12, happy spending time with her best friend Liv and being madly in love with her perfect boyfriend Michael. Then suddenly, she finds out she’s pregnant...
A splendid assortment: Denise Tilley on the history of Birchalls in Launceston
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
In 1844 Birchalls opened in Launceston, Tasmania, with an advertisement in the local paper promising a ‘splendid assortment of books, stationery, fancy goods, etc’. The store continues to stock an...
Rebecca Starford’s ‘Bad Behaviour’
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Being a 14-year-old girl can be brutal, and Bad Behaviour is Melbourne-based editor Rebecca Starford’s memoir of a harrowing year spent at a posh boarding school’s bush campus. Starford lived in a...
Behind closed doors: Rose Michael on the acquisitions process
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Ten years ago, as a lecturer in the publishing and communications program at the University of Melbourne, Rose Michael hosted a debate on the then-contentious topic of whether the marketing...
Nick Dyrenfurth’s ‘Mateship: A Very Australian History’
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Surveys of Australians continue to show that ‘mateship’ is one of our country’s defining qualities. But what does it actually mean? In this provocative history, academic Nick Dyrenfurth traces Australian...
Cooking the books: behind the scenes with Hardie Grant Publishing online content editor Hannah Koelmeyer
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Hannah Koelmeyer is the online content editor for Hardie Grant Publishing’s Cooked website, which recently won an award for best consumer-facing website at the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards. Koelmeyer describes the website as ‘essentially Netflix...
Leisa Rayven’s ‘Bad Romeo’
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Bad Romeo doesn’t quite shake off its Twilight fan-fiction origins, but author Leisa Rayven manages a funny, sexy narrative voice that lifts this book above its peers. Cassie Taylor is cast in a...
Doing the deed: Sex in YA literature
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
‘For those of us who were teenagers before the early 2000s, the pickings were slim when it came to books that showed characters talking about sex, let alone actually doing...
Jackie French’s ‘Birrung: The Secret Friend’
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The setting is Sydney Cove, 1790. When Barney Bean catches the eye of the ‘Indian’ girl adopted by the colony’s chaplain, he has no idea how it is going to...
Fit, fed & informed: Tim White on the trend for healthy lifestyle titles
Thursday, 6 November 2014
‘The boundaries of what is a diet and what is a lifestyle are ever-changing because of trends in cuisine, ingredients, ideas about physical (and mental) health, and other factors, but...
Lynette Noni’s ‘Akarnae: The Medoran Chronicles Book One’
Thursday, 6 November 2014
This is another book about ‘young people at magic school’, which we’ve seen a lot of in the post-Harry Potter market. To be fair, the magic school plot device was...
Is the 14/14-day territorial copyright agreement working?
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
In the talkback column in the latest issue of Books+Publishing magazine we asked several publishers and booksellers whether the 14/14-day territorial copyright agreement was working for them. Scribe’s Henry Rosenbloom, Text’s Kirsty...
Patrick Holland’s ‘Navigato’
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
With the poise and economy of expression of a Zen Buddhist kōan, Navigatio explores the worldly and metaphysical searchings of St Brendan of Clonfert, a sixth-century Christian monk who braves...
Reilly, Ponting, Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Jim Haynes’ ‘Australia’s Best Unknown Stories’
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Jim Haynes sorts the facts from the furphies in the audiobook Australia’s Best Unknown Stories, which combines snippets of Australian colonial history, short stories and poetry. With the voice of a...
Wrapped up in books: Christmas 2014 titles
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
With Christmas just over two months away, most publishers have already released their key titles for the Christmas selling period. Brad Jefferies rounds up some of the favourites.
John Marsden’s ‘South of Darkness’
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
South of Darkness is John Marsden’s first novel for an adult audience, set in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby Fletch has no memory of his parents. For as long as...
‘Books+Publishing’ 2014 rights survey results
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
For the 12th year in a row, Books+Publishing has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading. The survey looks at average income...
Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe & Mervyn Street’s ‘The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert’
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
This chapter book is a charming collection of stories by Jukuna Mona Chuguna, a storyteller from the great Sandy Desert. They have been interpreted and re-told by her friend and...
Top 10 political bios of the past decade
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
How will Julia Gillard’s memoir measure up against her predecessors’? Nielsen BookScan has put together a list of the bestselling political biographies and memoirs of the past 10 years. View...
Behind the scenes with Scholastic publisher and Snappyant co-director Ana Vivas
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablets. ‘In 2010, I downloaded an app on my iPhone called Peekaboo...
Susan Hawthorne’s ‘Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing’
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
In 2002 I attended the launch of Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity and later used it as an economics text. In that book Hawthorne put the case...
Helen Razer & Bernard Keane’s ‘A Short History of Stupid’
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
A Short History of Stupid is concerned with the rise of Stupidity in a world ruled by ‘fade-resistant individualism’, extreme paternalism, political condescension, conspicuous compassion and ‘the injurious yoga class...
Susannah Chambers on being an editor in New York
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Allen & Unwin’s Susannah Chambers spent three months in New York as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. As part of her report she examines the ‘notable differences’ between...
Erik Jensen’s ‘Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen’
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
When the Archibald Prize-winning artist Adam Cullen died in 2012 at the age of 46, the Australian art world was unsure who it had lost: a vulgar, naïf enfant terrible,...
Is social media worth the effort?
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
‘For a medium whose language is by and large casual and spontaneous, social media requires a surprising amount of time and effort for businesses. That said, when done right it...
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