Monday, 15 July 2013
US new adult author Abbi Glines visited Australia in June. Glines has three books coming out in 2013: one in the ‘Sea Breeze’ series and two in the ‘Fallen Too...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Boffins Bookshop in Perth has won Specialist Bookseller of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards for six years running. Owner Bill Liddelow shares his bookselling wisdom—with a nod...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs is visiting Australia in September. Her new book Bones of the Lost (William Heinemann) is the latest instalment in Reichs’ bestselling Temperance Brennan series,...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Around 260 members of the local industry attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, which was held in Adelaide on 16-17 June and followed the Leading Edge Books conference...

Monday, 15 July 2013
With new novels from Tim Winton and Margaret Atwood, bios of Ricky Ponting and Nelson Mandela, and gift books from Maggie Beer and Beci Orpin, this Christmas brings books to...

Monday, 15 July 2013
There is an element of nostalgia to this year’s Father’s Day titles, from new books to mark anniversaries for Wisden and Bathurst, to reflections of boyhood adventures. Andrea Hanke rounds...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Andrea Hanke’s ears are ringing with buzz books Recently, someone in publishing tried to explain to me the difference between book buzz and book hype. Buzz, he said, is organic,...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Preparing for National Bookshop Day The third annual National Bookshop Day is scheduled for Saturday 10 August. As well as hosting their own events, booksellers can take part in a...

Monday, 15 July 2013
‘The Full Ridiculous (Text, October) reminds us that sometimes, to really appreciate the beautiful highs of life, you need to hit rock bottom first,’ writes reviewer Louise Fay. She spoke...

Monday, 15 July 2013
In his new novel Cairo (Scribe September), Chris Womersley recreates Melbourne life in the 1980s. The author spoke to Martin Shaw. This novel begs the question: what were you doing in...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton, September) ‘brims with fine detail’, writes reviewer Joanne Shiells. She spoke to the author.  How did you manage to inhabit the...

Monday, 15 July 2013
US author, illustrator and comic book artist Lucy Knisley is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program. Knisley’s books include French Milk (Touchstone) and Relish (First...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Co-authors and sisters Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride have written Shimmer (Fremantle Press, October) for younger readers about a teenage genie who is sent to Earth. They spoke to Dani Solomon. One...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Berbay Publishing and Gecko Press have built their publishing lists by cherry-picking the best children’s books from around the world, reports Kate Blackwood. When Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, managing director at Melbourne’s...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Australian publishers are starting to use the term in their marketing material, but what exactly is new adult, and how is it being used by booksellers? Cordelia Rice reports. In...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Should the Australian book industry get more involved in international events such as World Book Night? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers. Mike Gratwick, co-owner, Dymocks Busselton No, I don’t believe that...

Monday, 15 July 2013
Portia Lindsay finds out what publishers can do to give underperforming titles a second chance. For a book that doesn’t capture the audience’s attention through positive (or with shrinking literary...

Thursday, 11 July 2013
Scott Baker’s time-travel thriller The Rule of Knowledge (Hachette) is out in September. Reviewer Lachlan Jobbins said the book ‘gets better and better the more you read’. You can read his...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Canadian-American author Ruth Ozeki is visiting Australia in September. Her most recent novel A Tale for the Time Being (Text) tells the story of Ruth, who finds the diary of...

Tuesday, 2 July 2013
US young adult author Jackson Pearce is visiting Australia in July for the Children’s and Young Adult Writers and Illustrators Conference in Perth. Pearce is the author of several novels,...

Thursday, 27 June 2013
Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Text, November) gives the untold story of the women who worked on the goldfields of Ballarat. Reviewer Patrick Mullins said Wright has ‘a...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
At the recent Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, Daniel Pink, author of To Sell Is Human, told us that buyers and sellers are now at information parity. Customers have access...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Romance author Julia Quinn is visiting Australia in August for the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Fremantle. Quinn’s newest book is the ninth in the ‘Bridgertons’ series, The Bridgertons:...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy (A&U, October) tells the story of William Burr, an adventurer on the trail of an escaped convict turned bushranger. Reviewer Tim Coronel called the novel a ‘rollicking,...

Monday, 3 June 2013
Claire Zorn’s The Sky So Heavy (UQP, August) tells the story of a group of Australian teenagers struggling to stay alive in the wake of a nuclear winter. Reviewer Kate...

Monday, 3 June 2013
A J Betts’ YA novel Zac & Mia won the 2012 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. Reviewer Natalie Crawford gave the book five stars, calling it ‘a...