Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Arlie Alizzi
Monday, 7 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 4 July 2025
Searching for your next great read to share with kids? Our Junior Book Club highlights 10 new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time....
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Jen Topham
Thursday, 3 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
ABIA winner profile: Allen & Unwin
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards in early May, Books+Publishing reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their challenges, their goals and what the win...
The Berry Agency: ‘The time was finally right’
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
In the current publishing climate, traditionally published authors are expected to take on a large proportion of the publicity and marketing of their books, while self-published authors take on all...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Sarah Valle
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Here’s something absolutely cooked about books in Australia
Monday, 30 June 2025
Alice Grundy is an editor, publisher, researcher and teacher. She has worked on both sides of the publishing industry – holding various trade publishing roles over a 15-year period, as well...
Meet the 2025 Rising Stars: Rachel Cramp
Monday, 30 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent fewer than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the...
Editorial Letter: Epitexts, First Nations representation, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
As with all similar publications, Books+Publishing has a set of editorial guidelines and a style manual, designed to ground us in our core purpose and the needs of our audience....
ABIA winner profile: Jeanmarie Morosin
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards in early May, Books+Publishing reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their career, their challenges, their goals and what...
Community and Courage: B+P reflects on SWF
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
This year, publishing director of Books+Publishing, Kate Cuthbert, attended Sydney Writers' Festival in May. We asked her to share her thoughts on the festival which ran between 19 and 27...
Amelia Mellor on ‘The Wicked Ship’
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Melbourne-based author Amelia Mellor’s new middle-grade adventure series, Oceanforged, launches with The Wicked Ship (Affirm, August), a 'rollicking mix of Treasure Island and The Sword in the Stone with a...
Amelia Mellor recommends
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
An in-joke with my sister recently led me to revisit Odo Hirsch’s Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, an audiobook we once listened to on a road trip as kids. The...
TitlePage announces plans for upgraded search, new functionality
Monday, 16 June 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a suite of upgrades to TitlePage, with a focus on improving access and use of TitlePage data. TitlePage launched in 2004 with eight...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 13 June 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction...
What’s so special about special editions?
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
The book as a collectible item seems to wax and wane as a trend. On noticing a distinct waxing interest lately, Books+Publishing (B+P) decided to reach out to some industry...
Olivia De Zilva on ‘Plastic Budgie’
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Tarndanya/Adelaide-based writer Olivia De Zilva’s debut, Plastic Budgie (Pink Shorts Press, August), is described as a ‘sharply funny, sad and sentimental reflection on the people, places and cultural forces that...
Olivia De Zilva recommends
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Cher Tan’s Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging. I’ve worked with Cher before and have been a fan of her writing for a long time. Cher was really one of the first...
Introducing Junior Book Club – A bunch of this month’s brilliant books
Friday, 6 June 2025
Searching for your next great read to share with kids? Our Junior Book Club picks highlight 10 new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading...
On alchemy: B+P reflects on Melbourne Writers Festival 2025
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
This year, several members of the B+P team attended the Melbourne Writers Festival. We asked publishing director Kate Cuthbert and managing editor Ange Glindemann to share their experience. ‘Alchemy’ –...
The quiet revolution of bookshop succession
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
In the independent bookstores of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, a new generation of book lovers is taking the reins. Incoming owners are learning that bookstores are more than just...
The digital life of a neighbourhood bookstore
Monday, 2 June 2025
Ramona Books is a new independent bookstore in Melbourne that’s quickly made a name for itself online. Books+Publishing's reviews editor Jess Lomas spoke with store owner Katie Smith about how...
Who gets published in Aotearoa? Three key findings
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
A recent Booksellers NZ newsletter shared independent publisher Damien Levi’s analysis of 2023 publishing data on gender and ethnicity in Aotearoa. This analysis follows on from earlier work by writer...
A First Nations writer’s fellowship was withdrawn by Queensland’s government. What’s going on?
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Jo Caust is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communication, where she is also an honorary principal fellow. She is a founder-editor...
Explainer: State Library Victoria duty of care review timeline
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Following the release of documentation from the State Library Victoria (SLV) regarding ways of working with stakeholders including contractors, Books+Publishing has compiled a timeline of relevant events. Bootcamp postponement In February...
Emma Pei Yin on ‘When Sleeping Women Wake’
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Canberra-based, British-born Hong Kong-Chinese writer and editor Emma Pei Yin’s debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake (Hachette, July), is set in 1940s Hong Kong and follows three women whose lives...
Emma Pei Yin recommends
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
I have been so deep in research for When Sleeping Women Wake that I haven’t read much Australian fiction over the past few years. The most memorable Australian fiction I...
Enamoured Books opens in Auckland
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Enamoured Books, Aotearoa New Zealand's first dedicated romance bookshop, opened in Auckland in May of 2025. Founder Ruby Wallace spoke with Books+Publishing about her vision for the shop. Why did you...
The 2025 Visiting International Publishers: Why they’re coming and what they hope to find
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
The 2025 Creative Australia Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) Program is running in Sydney from 19–23 May, coinciding with the Sydney Writers' Festival. The program invites international publishers, scouts and literary...
Publishing industry hopeful following Federal Election
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
With the landmark results of the 3 May federal election, questions have arisen about the future of the literary sector. Following the Books Create Australia election campaign, B+P reached out to the Australian Publishers...
