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Publishing in a time of political instability

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
'As publishers we should be publishing political books from the left, from the right, from the centre. It's important we’re not retreating back to publishing the sort of liberal books...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Sales Nonfiction Murdoch Books has sold French-language and Dutch-language rights to The Fit Foodie Meal Prep Plan (Sally O’Neil) to Marabout Publishing and Forte Uitgevers respectively. Thames & Hudson Australia...

Taking stock: Hachette’s Next Stock Date system 

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Hachette’s Next Stock Date system aims to provide booksellers with timely, accurate data. After spending more than two years developing it, Hachette has offered to share what they’ve learned with...

Book designer spotlight: Imogen Stubbs

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
A love of publishing sparked by the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT led to studying graphic design, eventually landing Imogen Stubbs a job at Text Publishing, where she...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 14 October 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This...

Charts this week 

Monday, 14 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Bad Guys Episode 10: The Baddest Day Ever Aaron Blabey Scholastic 2 Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan Allen...

All bases covered: Karys McEwen on book design 

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Karys McEwen discusses the subtle ways that book design impacts students and librarians. Book design is not something that I spend a lot of time considering, or at least that...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Sales Fiction Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American rights to You Don’t Know Me, The Hidden Hours and a new untitled work (all Sara Foster) to...

Quiet achiever: Jessica Horrocks’ career journey

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Jessica Horrocks, designer and production coordinator at Text Publishing, was recently named Emerging Designer of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards. She shares her career journey. Having...

Charts this week 

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Testaments Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus 2 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 3 The Bad Guys Episode...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 7 October 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features a holiday gift...

No Place for an Octopus (Claire Zorn, UQP) 

Thursday, 3 October 2019
This is Claire Zorn’s first picture book and it comes as rather a surprise—she is well known as an author of novels for young adults, for which she has won...

I See, I See (R Henderson, A&U) 

Thursday, 3 October 2019
This extremely clever book will be loved by kids, who will want to turn it upside down to read it again as soon as they finish it—and it will be...

The information age: Children’s reference books 

Wednesday, 2 October 2019
In a time of internet fatigue, young readers are turning back to books as authoritative sources of information. Danielle Binks investigates. George Orwell is said to have stated, ‘In a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to The Yield (Tara June Winch) to HarperVia; and French-language rights to Actes Sud (see news); and...

Book designer spotlight: Michelle Mackintosh

Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Michelle Mackintosh is a freelance book designer, as well as a writer, illustrator and Japanophile (she’s co-written four books on Japan with her husband, writer and DJ Steve Wide). She...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 30 September 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features...

Charts this week 

Monday, 30 September 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Testaments Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus 2 The Institute Stephen King Hodder & Stoughton 3 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths &...

True West (David Whish-Wilson, Fremantle Press) 

Thursday, 26 September 2019
Opening on a Western Australian freeway in 1988, True West immediately introduces Lee Southern, a teenager on the run from the militaristic bikie gang in which he grew up. Such...

Nothing New: A history of second-hand (Robyn Annear, Text) 

Thursday, 26 September 2019
Opportunity shops—or op shops, as they’re lovingly referred to—are a well-established and much-loved feature of the Aussie retail landscape. In this entertaining and insightful history, Robyn Annear looks at where...

The Great Divide (L J M Owen, Echo) 

Thursday, 26 September 2019
In her fourth novel, L J M Owen, author of the ‘Dr Pimms, Intermillenial Sleuth’ series, gives us Australian rural crime at its most atmospheric: mist-shrouded streets, ruined vineyards, an...

Jane Harrison on Blak & Bright 

Wednesday, 25 September 2019
This year’s Blak & Bright festival—the second after the inaugural festival in 2016—ran from 5–8 September in Melbourne. The festival had about 2500 people attend its sessions, up from the...

 

 

 

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