Monday, 20 August 2012
The publishing industry has been good to Steven Lochran, who has worked his way up from office assistant to sales rep, met his fiancé in the mail room, and has...

Monday, 20 August 2012
Gender stereotyping is rife in junior fiction, but is it a necessary evil? Children’s bookseller and book buyer Daniela Perinac reports. When Kathy Kozlowski, children’s specialist at Readings Carlton, looks...

Monday, 20 August 2012
School libraries are starting to explore models for delivering ebooks. Heath Graham considers some of the challenges. The publishing industry is undergoing a series of massive changes with the growth...

Monday, 20 August 2012
A 60-person function room, a 300-strong schools base and an artist-in-residence are all part of The Children’s Bookshop’s unique service. Owner Paul Macdonald shares his bookseller’s diary. The Children’s Bookshop...

Monday, 20 August 2012
Michelle de Kretser’s latest novel explores the motivations and desires of the modern traveller through the twin narratives of an Australian backpacker and a Sri Lankan refugee. The author spoke...

Monday, 20 August 2012
Catherine Deveny describes her first novel, about a 30-something married comedian who reconnects with her ex, as ‘totally utterly unapologetically autobiographical’. She spoke to Carody Culver. You’ve got seven nonfiction...

Monday, 20 August 2012
Creepy & Maud is an unusual love story about a relationship conducted entirely through notes on a window. Reviewer Kate Sunners spoke to author Dianne Touchell. Creepy & Maud explores...

Friday, 17 August 2012
This will be Steve Grimwade’s final year as director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (23 August to 2 September), with Lisa Dempster recently announced as his successor. Grimwade spoke to...

Friday, 17 August 2012
In 2010 Jacqueline Wright won the TAG Hungerford Award for most promising unpublished manuscript, and Red Dirt Talking (Fremantle Press, October) is the result. The novel is a contemporary drama...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
New York Times bestselling romance author Eloisa James is in Australia in August to attend the Australian Romance Readers Association convention on the Gold Coast. Her latest book is The...

Friday, 3 August 2012
Irish author John Boyne is best known for his children’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, but he has also written a number of adult novels. His latest is...

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Amy Espeseth's novel Sufficient Grace (Scribe, September) is a story of lost innocence and the unfailing bond between two young women. Read the review here. Espeseth spoke to reviewer Rita Yazdani. Reading Sufficient Grace, I kept...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
At the launch of his debut long-form comic Blue in Sydney's Kinokuniya mega bookstore, the cartoonist Pat Grant projected individual panels from his comic with a haunted soundtrack rising from...

Monday, 23 July 2012
Kristy Chambers’ stories about nursing used to make her friends ‘laugh, cry or throw up over coffee’—so she turned them into a book, Get Well Soon! (UQP, September). Chambers spoke...

Thursday, 5 July 2012
Andrew Croome’s second novel Midnight Empire (A&U, September), following the 2008 Vogel Award-winning, Document Z, is a contemporary political thriller set against a backdrop of Las Vegas’ professional poker scene...

Thursday, 5 July 2012
Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d be Cake (Penguin) and more recently, How Did You Get This Number (Portobello). She is a guest of the Melbourne...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
With two romantic comedies under her belt, Toni Jordan tackles the family saga in her latest book Nine Days (Text, September). She spoke to reviewer Chris Harrington. The nine days...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Australian author and literary agent Virginia Lloyd travelled to Book Expo America last month, where everyone was talking about ‘the problem of discovery’. The more some things change in book...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Beneath the Darkening Sky is a novel by 27-year-old Australian-Sudanese writer Majok Tulba, which imagines the life of a child soldier in Sudan (see review here). It’s the story of...

Friday, 29 June 2012
An abundance of book-to-film adaptations have been released this year, with still more to come. It’s good news for the Sun Bookshop and Riverbend Books, which run their own film...

Thursday, 28 June 2012
Many booksellers are now signed up to sell ebooks, but how do you drive customers to your ebook store? We asked Kevin Guy from Avid Reader and Jon Page from...

Friday, 22 June 2012
Fiction Black Mountain (Venero Armanno, UQP, August) reviewed by Jon Page This intriguing novel takes you from a small coastal Queensland town to the sulphur minefields of Sicily. There are...