Monday, 7 October 2013
Dominique Wilson’s The Yellow Papers (Transit Lounge, March) is a ‘captivating historical epic, and a unique view of the formation of modern China’, writes Jennifer Peterson-Ward. She spoke to the...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Andrea Hanke shares her serious summer reads. While I enjoy a breezy rom-com as much as the next person, the prospect of several days of uninterrupted, beach umbrella-shaded reading time...

Monday, 7 October 2013
This year, Books+Publishing surveyed members of the Australian book industry to find out exactly how much workers are getting paid. Andrea Hanke and Andrew Wrathall report on the results. It’s...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Children’s and YA fiction gets the bulk of the attention when it comes to media coverage, awards and events. So why is children’s nonfiction considered the ‘ugly stepsister’ of children’s...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Aleesah Darlison, author of the ‘Unicorn Riders’ series, has filled her new book with unicorns, fairies, griffins, dragons and goblins. She spoke to Thuy On. Read On’s review here. You’re well...

Monday, 7 October 2013
The Dealer is the Devil (Brandl & Schlesinger, February) is Adrian Newstead’s guide to the Australian Indigenous art industry. He spoke to Clive Tilsley. Read Tilsley’s review here. Why is the...

Monday, 7 October 2013
What do you think will happen to the Australian book industry under the new government? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Martin Hughes, publisher, Affirm Press Apart from a clutch of new books by...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....

Monday, 7 October 2013
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin  Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...

Monday, 7 October 2013
Sex in Words is a new series of events at Dymocks Adelaide that began in June with erotic fiction readings from authors Kyoko Church, Kate Belle and Angela Castle. The...

Monday, 7 October 2013
‘Great Book Great Price’, ‘Read It, Love It or Your Money Back!’, ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read’. Publishers’ promotional stickers can provide a catchy sales pitch, promote an unknown...

Monday, 7 October 2013
In September, Bob Sessions retired from the book trade after more than 27 years at Penguin Australia, including 22 years as head of publishing. This is his parting letter to...

Monday, 7 October 2013
I’m pretty sure most booksellers have already figured out what the really big sci-fi and fantasy sellers are going to be for the end of the year: Stephen King’s Doctor...

Monday, 7 October 2013
In the pictureMargaret Hamilton, former children’s book publisher and owner of Pinerolo, the Children’s Book Cottage, is releasing her first children’s picture book in March. B is for Bedtime (illus...

Thursday, 3 October 2013
One of the biggest books of the season is Ricky Ponting’s Ponting: At the Close of Play. Published by HarperSport in November, the book coincides with Ponting’s retirement from all...

Thursday, 3 October 2013
In Koombana Days (Fremantle Press), Annie Boyd writes about the disappearance of the SS Koombana in a cyclone off the coast of Western Australia. She spoke to Tim Coronel. You...

Wednesday, 2 October 2013
In September, Sydney University Press publications coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya attended the St Gallen International Publishing Management Course in Switzerland. She shares some of her highlights. Too often in the publishing...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
N J Gemmell’s first book for children, The Kensington Reptilarium (Random House, November), is about four children living in ‘a house brimming with secret passageways and mechanical ladders’, writes reviewer...

Tuesday, 1 October 2013
John Connolly is visiting Australia in October. Conquest: The Chronicle of the Invaders (Headline) is the first book in a new YA science-fiction series, co-written with Connolly’s partner Jennifer Ridyard....

Thursday, 19 September 2013
Scottish crime author Stuart MacBride is visiting Australia in September. His latest book is Close to the Bone (HarperCollins) from the ‘Logan McRae’ series. What would you put on a...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
Maureen Brooks is the manager of publications, sales and promotions at the National Library of Australia (NLA). She spoke to reviewer Chris Harrington about NLA’s newest exhibition book, Mapping Our...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
Superstar author Jackie Collins is visiting Australia in October. Her new book Confessions of a Wild Child (Simon & Schuster) is the eighth book about Lucky Santangelo, and takes the heroine...

Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Charles Hope is an author, editor and picture researcher who has written several nonfiction children’s books, including titles in the ‘Extreme Weather’ and ‘Going Supernova’ series (both Wild Dog). His latest book The...

Thursday, 22 August 2013
Richard Flanagan’s new novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) tells of an Australian surgeon living in a Japanese POW camp. The author spoke to Clive Tilsley. You...