Friday, 1 February 2013
 Julie Hunt has created a thrilling tale of life on the run in Song for a Scarlet Runner (A&U, April). The author spoke to Jarrah Moore. You can read Moore’s review...

Friday, 1 February 2013
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?  ‘Just One Day is a Trojan Horse novel. It trots up to you as a love story between a straight-laced...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Do you prefer to receive digital or printed proofs? Books+Publishing asked four booksellers. Mandy Macky, owner, Dymocks Adelaide While all of us read on ereaders from time to time, our...

Friday, 1 February 2013
 In her second memoir, Anna Goldsworthy explores her experience of motherhood, including an irrational fear of losing her newborn down a composting toilet. Joanne Shiells spoke to the author. What...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Dark Serpent (HarperVoyager, May) is the first book in Kylie Chan’s ‘Celestial Battle’ trilogy, which combines martial arts and magic, and the seventh book in an ongoing story that began...

Friday, 1 February 2013
After its premises and all of its stock were destroyed in the February 2011 earthquake, the Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch has rebuilt outside of the city centre, and flourished. Owner...

Friday, 1 February 2013
In her second novel, Cory Taylor worked hard to capture the voice of her protagonist, a young soldier infatuated with a Japanese youth in an internment camp in regional Victoria...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Lauren Beukes is travelling to Australia in May. Her latest book is The Shining Girls (HarperCollins). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?  A time-travelling serial killer is unstoppable...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Notions Unlimited Bookshop in the beachside suburb of Chelsea, Victoria, has recently created three YouTube videos to promote its store and reach out to members of its local community. One...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Now that ebooks have established themselves in the market, are they changing the way designers work? Drew Turney reports. One of the more ambitious ebook projects of the past year has...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of print-on-demand (POD) and short-run digital printing. Eloise Keating asked several publishers to share recent examples of their benefits. Black Inc.’s US choice for POD...

Wednesday, 30 January 2013
In January 2013, PwC published a report called ‘Demystifying the online shopper: 10 myths of multichannel retailing’, based on its annual global survey of online shoppers. In 2012 this survey...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
From supergrains to creative seeds, Shannon Wood rounds up forthcoming titles in the mind-body-spirit genre. Shape up While weight-loss titles are popular all year round, summer is the peak time...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
It’s a small and often overlooked part of the book market, but audiobooks are showing no signs of decline. Andrew Wrathall spoke to Bolinda CEO Rebecca Herrmann about the company’s...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
The population of Aireys Inlet may be small in winter, but there’s plenty to keep bookseller Nicole Maher busy throughout the year. The owner of Great Escape Books and co-organiser...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Andrea Hanke kicks off another reading year with new fiction from Kate Atkinson and Karen Russell, true stories of shopping and online dating, and some standout YA. Life after Jackson...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
In 2012 it might have been overshadowed by erotic fiction, but there’s certainly no drought in rural romance. In January, Loretta Hill follows up her popular debut The Girl in...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Bolinda’s forthcoming audiobook releases include, in nonfiction, The Great Race by David Hill (read by Paul English, February), a thrilling historical account of the race between the English and the...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
A murdered girl washed up on a Tassie beach, and its impact on a small community, are the subjects of Poppy Gee’s debut novel. She spoke to Catherine Schulz. Given...