Friday, 15 June 2012
Benjamin Law tells Andrew Wrathall about his new book of adventure gonzo-ish journalism, which explores queer culture in Asia. (See our review here.) While some dry academic books have been...

Friday, 15 June 2012
In her latest novel, Sue Woolfe depicts life in an outback Aboriginal community through the eyes of white linguistics student Kate. Reviewer Clive Tilsley gave it five stars, describing it...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Piracy is a hot topic in the publishing industry, especially when it comes to ebooks. US writer Chris Ruen looks at the history, meaning and implications of downloading unlicensed digital...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Picture book publishers are showing no signs of slacking off in what is normally a low-selling period. Stephen Michael King has teamed up with Nick Bland in The Magnificent Tree...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
High Court Justice Michael Kirby is no stranger to the public spotlight. Although he’s only recently published his own story, he’s also the subject of a new biography, Michael Kirby:...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Winner of the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing, Dylan Coleman’s novel is ‘in turn heart-wrenching, amusing, tragic and resilient’, writes reviewer Max Oliver. He spoke to the author. This...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Emily Maguire’s latest novel explores the amorality of an expat community in Hanoi, and 35-year-old Mischa’s affair with an idealistic younger man. Maguire spoke to Portia Lindsay. You have previously...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Jason Lake is the co-owner of Imprints Booksellers in Adelaide’s ‘bohemian quarter’. He shares his bookseller’s diary. Imprints Booksellers opened its doors for business in 1984. It has since become...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Malcolm Neil calls for a more balanced industry debate on ebooks, and fewer references to book sniffing. Australia, more than most countries, has seen the business elements of the book...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Some booksellers are being approached daily by self-published authors. So how do they decide which titles to stock? Rita Yazdani spoke to three booksellers. When Amal Awad decided to self-publish...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Jamie Byng, MD of the Edinburgh-based publishing house Canongate and founder of World Book Night, will give the keynote address at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. He spoke...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
With the retail sector in the doldrums, the mere mention of succession planning can cause a bookshop owner’s brow to furrow. Rebecca Butterworth spoke to several booksellers about their long-term...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Art, writing and a mid-career detour into science eventually brought Lis Bastian to Varuna. I’m sitting here on a break in the Varuna arm of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, pondering...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Would you consider selling ereaders in your bookstore and if so, what type? Bookseller+Publisher spoke to three booksellers. We have not considered selling ereaders. Our ebooks are accessible to anybody...

Friday, 8 June 2012
In August, Simon & Schuster Australia will publish actress Molly Ringwald’s book When It Happens to You—a collection of interlinked stories that explores the effects of betrayal on a family....

Friday, 8 June 2012
Liz Moore is touring Australia in July. Her latest book is Heft (Random House), the story of two improbable heroes: a former academic who weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left...

Friday, 8 June 2012
‘The Midnight Promise crashes straight into Temple, Corris and Chandler territory,’ writes reviewer Catherine Schulz. She spoke to author Zane Lovitt. The Midnight Promise was plucked from the slushpile by...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Australian booksellers have welcomed the recent wave of publishers releasing branded classics, saying they have made classic books more accessible and attractive to readers, and have provided a new angle...

Monday, 28 May 2012
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced, and in the fiction category Miles Franklin contenders All That I Am and Foal’s Bread are joined by Sarah Thornhill, Autumn Laing and Forecast:...

Friday, 25 May 2012
Fiction Nightfall (Will Elliott, HarperCollins, July) Aden wakes up in a blood-filled bathtub in a strange place. He knows he has killed himself, but remembers only fragments of his life....

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
In January 2012, Bowker Market Research conducted a survey into the emerging ebook market in Australia and nine other countries, including the US, UK, India, Brazil and Japan. We share...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
From social media ‘evangelists’ to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot—but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey. Using social media to drive community engagement with...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
‘Publishers and designers need to take more chances’ was the message from the judges at this year’s APA Book Design Awards, held at the Powerhouse Museum on 17 May as...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Trade publishing director Sue Hines spoke to Bookseller+Publisher about Allen & Unwin’s new House of Books ebooks list. Will the A&U House of Books titles all be at the same...

Friday, 4 May 2012
In the conclusion to Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Edith Trilogy’, former League of Nations officer Edith Campbell Berry mixes politics with pleasure in post-war Canberra. Moorhouse spoke to Andrea Hanke in the...

Friday, 4 May 2012
Gillian Mears grew up horse mad and horse-book mad. She spoke to Heather Dyer about her latest novel, Foal’s Bread (A&U) in the August 2011 edition of Bookseller+Publisher. (See the...

Friday, 4 May 2012
Stasiland author Anna Funder found the transition to fiction ‘joyful’ and ‘liberating’. She spoke to David Gaunt about her debut novel All That I Am in the August 2011 issue...