Q&A with Dymocks CEO Mark Newman
30 June 2021
Dymocks CEO Mark Newman joined the bookselling chain just as the pandemic took hold around the globe. Its effects for Dymocks have been mixed. Newman says that while suburban and...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Nottingham’s Five Leaves Bookshop
30 June 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. ‘The shop opened the...
Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Mika Tabata
23 June 2021
In the lead-up to the 2021 Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) awards, Books+Publishing spoke to the two shortlisted nominees for Emerging Designer of the Year. In this second instalment we speak to Sydney-based...
Annie Smithers on ‘Recipe for a Kinder Life’
22 June 2021
Chef, cookbook author and writer Annie Smithers's Recipe for a Kinder Life (Thames & Hudson, August) blends memoir, philosophy and practical tips on sustainability based on the author's experience running...
Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: George Saad
17 June 2021
In the lead-up to the 2021 Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) Awards, Books+Publishing spoke to the two shortlisted nominees for Emerging Designer of the Year. In this first instalment we talk to...
Reading across the ditch: Forthcoming highlights from Aotearoa New Zealand
17 June 2021
Sharing a travel bubble and a relatively compatible time zone, could Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand's respective book industries be looking at each other afresh in this new pandemic era?...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Milan’s Libreria dello Spettacolo
17 June 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. When, in 1979, Maria...
Career path: Andrew Robertson
9 June 2021
Andrew Robertson, who began his career at one of Melbourne's most well-loved bookshops, joined NewSouth Books as the account manager for Victoria and Tasmania in 2019. Here he shares his...
Malla Nunn on ‘Sugar Town Queens’
9 June 2021
Malla Nunn's Sugar Town Queens (A&U, August) is a young adult novel set in Sugar Town, South Africa. This coming-of-age story follows 15-year-old Amandla as she uncovers her family history and...
July reviews round-up
2 June 2021
Releasing in July are two well-reviewed memoirs about family and intergenerational trauma: Dianne O’Brien’s Daughter of the River Country and Amani Haydar’s The Mother Wound. Although both stories are confronting...
Zoe Deleuil on ‘The Night Village’
2 June 2021
In Zoe Deleuil's debut novel The Night Village (Fremantle Press, August), a brief relationship and an unexpected pregnancy see Australian expat Simone suddenly living with a new baby in her...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Heidelberg’s The Travel Bookshop
26 May 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. 'Heidelberg is most famous...
Amani Haydar on ‘The Mother Wound’
25 May 2021
Artist, writer and lawyer Amani Haydar's father murdered her mother in 2015, while Haydar was pregnant with her first child. The Mother Wound (Macmillan, July), Haydar's debut memoir, is an...
Meet literary agent Natasha Solomun
19 May 2021
As the pandemic keeps rights sellers from meeting face-to-face, Books+Publishing is shining a regular spotlight on the work of Australian rights agents. Today, we hear from Natasha Solomun, who worked as a rights executive...
The rights approach: Australians on rights sales in Italy
12 May 2021
This year the Australian Publishers Association is running a series of rights networking events to help Australian publishers connect with overseas markets. In the lead-up to its event with Italy,...
50 years of publishing in Australia: Hachette looks back
5 May 2021
Hodder & Stoughton was incorporated in Australia on 2 April 1971. On this, the 50th anniversary of the company’s permanent roots in Australia, Hachette Australia & New Zealand CEO Louise...
June reviews round-up
5 May 2021
Winter 2021 yields new fiction from seasoned authors, including Briohny Doyle’s third book Echolalia, Kate Liston-Mills’s Dear Ibis, the follow-up to her 2017 collection The Waterfowl are Drunk! and Michael...
Sophie Overett on ‘The Rabbits’
5 May 2021
Sophie Overett's debut novel The Rabbits (Vintage, July), winner the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize, is a magic realist family saga centred around Delia Rabbit, a mother dealing with trauma from her...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
28 April 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In Iowa...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Meg Whelan
26 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Isabelle O’Brien
23 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the...
Chrissy Brincat on interning at UQP
21 April 2021
Each year Vision Australia runs a 12-month graduate program for graduates who are blind or who have low vision, with a component of the program involving a three-month external placement....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Bianca Jafari
21 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’
20 April 2021
Lisa Emanuel's 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to involvement with an oppressive and...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Stef Italia
16 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the...
Meet literary agent Jacinta di Mase
14 April 2021
As the pandemic keeps rights sellers from meeting face-to-face, Books+Publishing is shining a regular spotlight on the work of Australian rights agents. Today, we hear from Jacinta di Mase, the founder and lead agent...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Pooja Desai
14 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In...
May reviews round-up
8 April 2021
In May Anita Heiss will release her latest work of historical fiction, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams), which reviewer Joanne Shiells loved and said deserves to be read by all...
The rights approach: Australians on rights sales and acquisitions in Latin America
8 April 2021
This year the Australian Publishers Association is running a series of rights networking events to help Australian publishers connect with overseas markets. In the lead-up to its event with Latin...
Alice Pung on ‘One Hundred Days’
7 April 2021
One Hundred Days (Black Inc., June), Alice Pung's first novel for adults, is described as a fractured fairytale about 16-year-old Karuna, who is locked in her family's housing commission flat...
