Tuesday, 16 October 2012
When REDgroup collapsed in 2011, franchise co-owner Banafsheh Serov rebranded her family’s stores as Sydney independent Your Bookshop. She now runs four stores. This story does not begin in Sydney,...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
The end of the year brings collections aplenty and some excellent YA, writes Andrea Hanke. Of the many collections coming out in the next few months, the one I’m most...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Pamela Cook has created a feisty new character in Eve, the heroine of Blackwattle Lake (Hachette, December). The author spoke to Sarina Gale.  Read the review here. You capture the...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
At Christmas, it’s best to remember that the rarities in life make for the best gifts. Rarely does a Manga artist gain such success and popularity on his first try;...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
‘How do we fix this mess?’ asks Robert Peston in his book of the same name (Hodder, November). The financial crash of 2007/8 and the subsequent economic slump in much...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
There are so many cool books being offered for the gift season, but these few caught my particular attention. Krampus the Yule Lord (HarperVoyager, November) by Gerald Brom is the...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
For the 10th year in a row, Bookseller+Publisher has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents in the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair to gauge the health of Australian...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
How will this year’s crop of Christmas cookbooks fare? Tiffany Bridger rounds up the highlights. Flavours from afar A cookbook from Tessa Kiros (Falling Cloudberries, Apples for Jam) is a...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Thomas Minkus will visit Melbourne next month as part of SPUNC’s Independent Publishers Conference. He spoke to Andrea Hanke about some of the interesting smaller publishers his work has introduced...

Monday, 15 October 2012
Andrew Wrathall rounds up some of the Australian Curriculum textbooks coming to schools in 2013. English Two books available in print and digital formats for years 7-10 include ‘Essential English...

Friday, 12 October 2012
Nick Falk spoke to Meredith Lewin about his new series, the role of humour, and being frightened of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video. In a story in which two boys make...

Friday, 12 October 2012
Catherine Jinx found that upper English accents came very easily after a lifetime of reading. She spoke to Hannah Francis about her new series and how to scare readers. You’ve...

Friday, 12 October 2012
Publishing student Kate McKenzie has conducted a detailed analysis of gender representation in CBCA award-winning picture books of the past 18 years. The findings reveal a worrying amount of gender...

Friday, 12 October 2012
One of Australia’s most popular children’s authors Mem Fox has teamed up with much-loved illustrator Judy Horacek for a second time. Lucy Stewart investigates their collaborative process. Collaborations between children’s...

Friday, 12 October 2012
Julia Marshall is the founder of the small but ‘globally focussed’ children’s publisher Gecko Press, based in Wellington, New Zealand. She tells us about her ‘hotch potch’ career path. I...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Two new consumer reports from Bowker, parent company of Bookseller+Publisher, look at how book buyers are discovering the books they purchase in the digital age. In the US, the most...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Amanda Hooton thinks Jane Austen would agree with her that finding a partner is not the sole point of life. Jessica Broadbent spoke to the author. Jane Austen seems to...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Joe Abercrombie is a guest of GenreCon in Sydney in November. His latest book is Red Country (Victor Gollancz, November). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?...

Monday, 1 October 2012
Two reports relating to the Australian copyright industries were released in August. One looks at the recent past: the economic contributions of our country’s copyright industries between 1996 and 2011....

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Catherine Schulz, manager of Fullers Bookshop Hobart, is one of the group of independent booksellers around Australia who meet once a year for an intense caffeine-fuelled few days to decide...

Friday, 14 September 2012
Uzodinma Iweala is a Nigerian author born in the US. He visited Australia recently to attend the Melbourne Writers Festival and to promote his latest book Our Kind of People (John Murray). What...