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...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Reviewer Jessica Broadbent recommends Frances Whiting’s new novel Walking on Trampolines (October, Macmillan) to readers who are looking for ‘something lovely and comforting to cheer them up in the cold...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
With a list that includes Abbi Glines, Jamie McGuire and Colleen Hoover, Simon & Schuster publishes some of the best-known new adult authors into Australia. Head of marketing and publicity...

Thursday, 8 August 2013
Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel Barracuda (A&U, November) is his ‘most personal and heartfelt book to date’, writes reviewer Martin Shaw. He spoke to the author. In Barracuda we get to...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Reading Christopher Currie’s opinion piece about what booksellers want from publishers, I was moved first to comment and then to respond.  Without detracting from anything Chris raised, all of which...

Thursday, 25 July 2013
Adventurer, author and filmmaker Tim Cope gives ‘an awe-inspiring account of his three-year trek on horseback from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, to the Danube River in Hungary’ in...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
In previous articles under this banner, booksellers with far more experience and intellect than I have identified many essential individual ways in which publishers could greatly benefit the lives of...