A full program: Jennifer Jackson shares her bookseller’s diary
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts is a bookshop, arts centre and culture hub with a wide scope. Director Jennifer Jackson discusses its evolution. Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts...
Join the club: What makes a good book club program work?
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Rising numbers of book clubs at bookstores and libraries show there is still ‘a voracious appetite for concentrated group discussion’. Elizabeth Flux investigates what makes a good club work. In...
Between the lines: Observations on the trade by Gladys Bembo
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
What on earth is going on with the Randy Penguins? By the time you read this, things might be clearer but at the time of writing, star publisher Ben Ball...
Editor’s picks: The familiar and the new
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Jackie Tang’s winter reading list contains titles that take a new approach to the familiar. It was difficult limiting this column to just winter releases; every day there’s news about...
The winning ticket: The literary prize sales effect
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters talks to Jackie Tang about the sales effect of Australia’s biggest literary prizes. How much does a literary award affect a book’s sales? It’s...
Your store: a round-up of retailing news, tips and titbits
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Bespoke book displays Brisbane’s Avid Reader won the annual Best Business Idea Award at the Leading Edge Books conference in March for the second year in a row. This year’s...
Leading the way: Lee Walker on her career journey
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Oxford University Press director of School Publishing Lee Walker reflects on 26 years in the publishing industry and what she hopes to achieve as the newly appointed president of the...
For the love of poetry: Looking beyond Instapoetry
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Angela Elizabeth finds out how local publishers are committing to poetry beyond the ‘Instapoetry’ trend. ‘Poetry is the medium of the moment,’ proclaimed UK National Poetry Day executive director Susannah...
Cover new ground: Rejacketing a children’s book series
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Nathania Gilson asks publishers and booksellers about the art of rejacketing a children’s book series. When Tristan Bancks, co-creator and author of the Tom Weekly junior-fiction series, was presented with...
Back to the drawing board: Publishing local board books
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Danielle Binks explores the rising demand for homegrown board books. In her Ten Commandments for reading aloud with children, author Mem Fox’s number-one rule is: ‘Spend at least ten wildly...
The bigger picture: Katherine Collette on ‘The Helpline’
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Katherine Collette’s debut novel The Helpline (Text, September) is a witty and heartfelt story about an insurance probability outcomes mathematician who ends up answering a seniors’ helpline for the local...
Finding your centre: Megan Daley on her career journey
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
‘A school library is at the very centre of creative school communities,’ writes teacher-librarian and book blogger Megan Daley. She shares her career journey. I studied early childhood teaching, always...
Talking less and listening more: Martin Hughes on creating safer workplaces
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes (with senior editor Ruby Ashby-Orr) explores what it means to shape a better culture and create safer workplaces. At the recent Leading Edge Books conference...
Podcast spotlight: Spun Stories
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Established in 2015, Spun: True Stories Told in the Territory evolved from a quarterly live storytelling event in Darwin that showcases ‘extraordinary stories by ordinary people’. Hosted and produced by...
Podcast spotlight: Dymocks Podcast
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Established in 2012, the Dymocks Podcast includes author interviews and conversations about the world of books and publishing. Released on a weekly basis, and with an extra condensed video version...
The ‘B+P’ guide to the Miles Franklin 2018 shortlist
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Six titles are vying for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Two of these are from multinational publishers (one each from HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan), three are from small, independent...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Kate Frawley from the Sun Bookshop
Friday, 15 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Annie Waters from Mostly Books
Friday, 15 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Podcast spotlight: ABC Radio National’s The Hub on Books
Thursday, 14 June 2018
ABC Radio National’s (RN) The Hub on Books is a weekly radio program and podcast featuring author interviews as well as news and analysis about the book industry. Journalist Claire Nichols,...
The perfect Foyles: ABA conference keynote speaker Paul Currie on the UK book industry
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Paul Currie, CEO of Foyles Bookshop in the UK, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference. He spoke to Jackie Tang about what Australian booksellers...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Dani Solomon from Readings Kids
Thursday, 14 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Tim Jarvis from Fullers Bookshop
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Stephanie Beck from Better Read Than Dead
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Podcast spotlight: Pratchat
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Pratchat is a monthly 'book club' podcast hosted by Elizabeth Flux and Ben McKenzie that aims to discuss every Terry Pratchett novel ever written. Each episode, Flux and McKenzie are joined...
Acquiring new languages: Exploring the world of bilingual children’s books
Wednesday, 6 June 2018
Jackie Tang asks publishers, booksellers and librarians if there is an increased demand in foreign-language children’s books. When Allen & Unwin published Joanne O’Callaghan and Kori Song’s Found in Melbourne,...
Ghost in the machine: Angela Meyer on ‘A Superior Spectre’
Friday, 1 June 2018
Writer and editor Angela Meyer’s debut full-length novel, A Superior Spectre (August), is the first book published under the new Ventura Press imprint for emerging writers, Peter Bishop Books. The...
Telling tales: Moreno Giovannoni on ‘The Fireflies of Autumn’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Moreno Giovannoni’s The Fireflies of Autumn (Black Inc., July) is a collection of loosely connected short stories, describing life in the Tuscan village of San Ginese. ‘[It] reads like top-notch...
World class: Jeremy Lachlan on ‘Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Jeremy Lachlan’s middle-grade adventure Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Hardie Grant Egmont, August) is ‘a thrilling story set in a universe made up of multiple worlds’ that features...
Kaleidoscopic views: Emily Gale on ‘I Am Out with Lanterns’
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Emily Gale’s I Am Out with Lanterns (Random House, August) intertwines the points of view of several teenagers to create a story that is ‘nuanced, complex and thoroughly devourable’, writes Jordi...
Podcast spotlight: The Rereaders
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Established in 2011, The Rereaders is a fortnightly literary and cultural podcast that has been described as Melbourne's answer to the Slate Culture Gabfest. Each episode is hosted by culture...
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