Monday, 21 July 2014
Spearheading UWA Publishing’s poetry for the next few months is the notable collection Poems 1957-2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann (July), one of Australia’s most distinguished living poets. Poems explores human nature...

Monday, 21 July 2014
US author Meg Wolitzer’s first novel for young adults is Belzhar (S&S, September). She will be travelling to Melbourne Writers Festival in August. What would you put on a shelf-talker...

Monday, 21 July 2014
For anyone who’s ever considered the expatriate life, Sydney writer Rachel Weiss shares its adventures and challenges in her memoir about life in the Czech capital The Thing about Prague...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Philip Bray, co-owner of Brays Books in Balmain, Sydney, is ‘fast approaching retirement’. He shares his ideas for the future of the book industry. You might expect an old bloke, fast...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Val McDermid’s latest book is The Skeleton Road (Little, Brown, September). She is visiting Australia in September. What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? Gripping storytelling with characters...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Brad Jefferies finds out what publishers have planned for Christmas.Jolly polliesThis Christmas brings a bumper crop of political biographies. One of the most-anticipated is Julia Gillard’s memoir. The former Prime...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Literary heavyweights and weighty fashion books are on Andrea Hanke’s reading list.From the mastersColm Tóibín and Hilary Mantel have new books coming out in the next few months, which makes...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Instead of running a solo VIP shopping night this Christmas, Fiona Stager from Brisbane’s Avid Reader is planning to hold a joint event with a number of local retailers. The Shophop...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Is social media worth the time you’re putting into it? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers.Catherine Schulz, manager, Fullers Bookshop Hobart:Social media is hard to quantify. It’s also hard to be consistent...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Rural romance readers are spoilt for choice this month—especially if they love family dramas. Outback Ghost (Harlequin, October) is the third book in the ‘Bunyip Bay’ series by bestselling author...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The boom in self-publishing has led to the establishment of a number of different ‘self-publishing support services’. Brad Jefferies reports.Support services for self-published authors come in all shapes and sizes....

Monday, 21 July 2014
Readings recently launched a book-advice column staffed by the ‘experienced and extremely wise bookseller Agatha’. Readers can email their questions to askagatha@readings.com.au and a selection of responses will be published...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The first Sunday in September is the Day of the Dads. Tim Coronel rounds up some gift ideas for bookish dads. All are August or September releases. FictionFiction-reading dads have a...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Why do so many digital publishing start-ups fail? Zoe Dattner, co-founder of Sleepers Publishing and the Small Press Network, remembers the innovators. Back in early May, I received an email from a start-up...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Robert Watkins has baked a coffee and cardamom cake. He is Hachette Australia’s commissioning editor. He says the marketing director is likely coming. The publishing director is already there. “Our...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
US-NZ author Rachael Herron is attending the Australian Romance Readers Convention in Sydney in August. Her latest novel is Pack Up the Moon (Bantam). The next instalment in her ‘Cypress...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
‘Farcical plotlines, secrets, surreal moments and eccentric characters populate the pages’ of J M Donellan’s novel Killing Adonis (Pantera Press, October), which will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson’s films,...

Thursday, 3 July 2014
Kate Forsyth’s Escape from Wolfhaven Castle is the first book in the ‘Impossible Quest’ fantasy series that blends old-fashioned storytelling with online games and competitions. Sarah Coull spoke to the...

Thursday, 3 July 2014
Readings bookseller Angela Crocombe visited this year’s BookExpo America courtesy of the Readings Scholarship. She writes that realistic teen fiction, a new US school curriculum and digital subscription models were...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Today there are close to 100 literary festivals around Australia, many of them in regional and rural areas, writes Andrew Nette in an article for the Wheeler Centre. He explores...

Thursday, 19 June 2014
Deb Fitzpatrick’s first novel for adults explores human drama in the ‘picturesque setting of Margaret River’. ‘The Break [Fremantle Press, September] will resonate with fans of Tim Winton, as Fitzpatrick...

Thursday, 19 June 2014
Danielle Wood’s Mothers Grimm (A&U, September) explores the stereotypes of the ‘good’ and ‘wicked’ mother in her contemporary retelling of four Grimm’s fairytales. Bec Kavanagh spoke to the author.Do you...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
What would you do to increase your sales and get your book in front of new fans? Would you let the readers decide what they’d pay for your book? Introducing...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
Brooke Davis’ debut novel Lost & Found (Hachette, July) weaves together the stories of seven-year-old Mille and eccentric octogenarians Agatha Pantha and Karl the Touch Typist. ‘It is full of...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
Jessie Cole inverts the ‘stranger comes to town’ narrative in her second novel Deeper Water (Fourth Estate). She spoke to reviewer Portia Lindsay.Deeper Water begins in a similar way to...

Monday, 12 May 2014
Indian-American author Vikram Chandra is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest book is Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software (Faber). What would you put on...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
My first work of fiction, a petite collection of tiny (but hopefully powerful) stories, commonly referred to as ‘flash fictions’, is out in May with Inkerman & Blunt. Inkerman &...