Monday, 3 June 2013
Comedy writer David Lawrence’s Fox Swift (Slattery Media, July) tells the story of 11-year-old Francis ‘Fox’ Swift, who joins a country footy team that gains the expertise of a genuine...

Thursday, 30 May 2013
Tracy Farr’s debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press, September) tells the story of Lena, a woman from Perth who found international fame after becoming the...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
In the relationship between the bookseller and the publisher, the latter holds most of the cards. Publishers supply direct to consumers, sometimes at a similar discount to wholesale; they set...

Friday, 24 May 2013
Irish novelist, memoirist, poet and short-story writer Dermot Healy is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest novel Long Time, No See (Faber & Faber) was nominated for the International...

Friday, 24 May 2013
Indian novelist and professor Anita Desai is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Desai is the author of short-story collections and novels for adults and children, three...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
For the engaged bookseller, I think the relationship with Australian publishers is quite good. Keeping in touch with publishers via conferences, roadshows, author dinners and office visits (and even facebook...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013
British writer, journalist and blogger Mark Forsyth is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His two books about words, The Etymologicon and The Horologicon, are published together...

Wednesday, 15 May 2013
In Michael Robotham’s If I Tell You I’ll Have to Kill You (A&U) some of Australia’s best crime writers share their advice on writing, researching and reading. Reviewer Shane Strange...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
American author Jane Smiley will visit Australia in July to attend the Mildura Writers’ Festival. Smiley, a writer of novels and short stories for adults and children, won the 1992...

Friday, 3 May 2013
Canadian writer Deborah Ellis is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Schools’ Program. Her latest book, the third in the ‘Parvana’ series, is Parvana’s Promise (A&U), the...

Thursday, 2 May 2013
Reviewer Max Oliver described first-time author Felicity Volk’s book Lightning (Picador) an ‘ambitious, finely written novel’ that tells the story of ‘two outsiders finding each other’. He spoke to the...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Reviewer John Purcell credited Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg (Hachette) with giving him ‘that warm feeling that comes from having read something that has strengthened or even reawakened a sense of what is...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013
In his debut novel Good on Paper (Hunter Publishers), Andrew Morgan has a lot of fun sending up the Australian publishing scene—but he’s keeping his source material close to his...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Self-published YA author Darrell Pitt recently signed an eight-book publishing deal with Text. He reflects on his path to publication. It was a combination of hard work, perseverance and luck...

Monday, 8 April 2013
Graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier is a guest of the Centre for Youth Literature’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne in May. Her autobiographical book Smile (Scholastic) was an international bestseller, and...

Friday, 5 April 2013
Over the past few weeks the winners of the Indie Awards, the shortlist for the Stella Prize and the longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award have all been announced....

Friday, 5 April 2013
Alex Adsett highlights new developments in publishing contracts, and where publishers and authors need to be wary.  It has been interesting to watch the changes in the publishing industry playing...

Friday, 5 April 2013
Kate Hendrick’s The Accident (Text, July) alternates between the perspectives of three characters who have lived through tragedy. The author spoke to Meredith Lewin. (Read the review here.) The Accident was shortlisted for...

Friday, 5 April 2013
Forthcoming film adaptations of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Melina Marchetta’s On the Jellicoe Road are already attracting pre-production buzz. Andrew Wrathall spoke to the authors.  ‘Had someone told...

Friday, 5 April 2013
Lyn White is the editor of ‘Through My Eyes’, a new fiction series for readers aged 11-14 that explores war through the eyes of children. She spoke to Meredith Lewin....

Friday, 5 April 2013
Libba Bray is a guest of the Centre for Youth Literature’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne in May. Her latest book is The Diviners (A&U). What would you put on a...

Friday, 5 April 2013
We’re starting to get into convention and expo season, which makes it a good time to be looking at the state of sci-fi and fantasy sections.  ID: The Second Machine...

Friday, 5 April 2013
As MasterChef and My Kitchen Rules continue to dominate on TV, imagine a future where chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at...