Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

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About the author 

Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Rick Morton has been a journalist and writer for over 14 years. He is the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Award for Young Journalist of the Year and the 2017...

Reading copy giveaway 

Wednesday, 3 February 2021
For your chance to win 1 of 50 exclusive advanced reading copies of My Year of Living Vulnerably, please email HarperCollins Publishers and include your full name and postal details.

 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
This year marks 30 years of Learning Made Easy with Dummies. Leading the celebrations is the release of Indigenous Australia For Dummies, 2nd Edition. A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look...

 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021

About the book 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Indigenous Australia For Dummies, Second Edition celebrates the contributions of Australian Indigenous peoples to contemporary Australian culture, exploring Indigenous art, music, dance, literature, film, sport, and spirituality. Learn about Indigenous...

About the author 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Larissa Behrendt AO is Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean (Indigenous Research) at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues. She is a member...

An interview with the author 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
What is new in the second edition of Indigenous Australia For Dummies? The largest areas of updating were in the arts. So much television, film, theatre and literature has been...

Advance praise 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Excerpt from Foreword by Stan Grant “How many of us can say we truly belong in our country? Can we say we know our country? Are we alive to the...

 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021

Publicity & marketing 

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
30 and thriving. Being a ‘dummy’ has never felt smarter. Our story began in 1991 when we published our first book, DOS For Dummies. Now 30 years on, the black and...

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
Four new writers, four compelling new novels

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
‘An entertaining, heartwarming story’ —Liz Byrski After a tough decade for retail, Cait’s bookshop is the last in the CBD, and the last independent retailer on a street given over...

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
After five years in bookselling, Emma Young retrained as a journalist and has been reporting since 2011: first for community papers, then as a statewide digital journalist for WAtoday. Her...

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
‘Few novels have such quiet authority and insight’ —Toni Jordan On the cusp of summer, 1986, Rowan Brockman’s mother calls him home for one last harvest. But with his brother...

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
David Allan-Petale has spent the last decade travelling the world, visiting some 50 countries, while making a living as a journalist and TV news producer. He has worked for the...

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
‘Delightfully subversive’ —Rashida Murphy Richard runs his alternative healing centre from an old houseboat in a scrapyard on Trusting Lane. The Little Mother Earth Ship provides spiritual sustenance, and while...

 

Thursday, 21 January 2021
Mel Hall is a writer and musician whose fiction has been longlisted for the 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Prize, the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award and the 2018 Carmel Bird...