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Dendy Direct gift-card giveaway  Archive

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Each month, movie and TV on-demand service Dendy Direct invites an Australian personality to choose their favourite movies as part of a ‘unique cinematic curation’. For October, Tim Winton has chosen his 15...

Small publisher spotlight: Melbourne Books  Archive

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Founded in 2001, Melbourne Books publishes a ‘unique range of Melbourne themed books covering subjects from food, music and culture to architecture and sport’. Publisher David Tenenbaum spoke to Books+Publishing...

Yates appointed Nero publisher  Archive

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Caitlin Yates has been appointed to the newly created position of publishing director and publisher at Black Inc.’s Nero imprint, following Jeanne Ryckmans’ resignation from the publisher role last month....

Johnson appointed Murdoch publishing director  Archive

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Former Simon & Schuster Australia managing director Lou Johnson has been appointed publishing director of Murdoch Books. In a statement, Johnson said she was ‘extremely excited to be leading Murdoch...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2016  Archive

Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth issue for 2016 is out now! It features 26 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in December 2016 to March 2017. Lucy Durneen’s short-story collection Wild...

Book bites: In the picture  Archive

Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....

New logo for Five Mile  Archive

Monday, 10 October 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s children’s imprint Five Mile has unveiled a new logo as part of its rebranding. In a statement, the publisher said the logo’s illustrative element ‘loosely references the...

Book sales up 20% in Ireland  Archive

Monday, 10 October 2016
Books sales in Ireland are up approximately 20% this year compared to the previous year, with the largest growths coming from nonfiction and children’s books, reports the Irish Times. According...

Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list announced  Archive

Friday, 7 October 2016
Dymocks has revealed its Kids’ Top 51 list for 2016, with more than 26,500 votes received from Booklovers members. The top 10 books on the list are: The ‘Harry Potter’...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now  Archive

Friday, 7 October 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains five reviews of books publishing in January and February 2017. The highest-scoring title was Mark Greenwood’s Diamond Jack, the first book in his new ‘History...

Bookshop-whiskey bar to open in Melbourne  Archive

Friday, 7 October 2016
A bar and bookshop specialising in Irish whiskey and Irish literature will open in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote in early November. Owner Eamonn Hennessy told Books+Publishing that the venue,...

Book bites: Teen talk  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...

Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Allison Rushby’s middle-grade novel The Turnkey is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Reviewer Maria H Alessandrino spoke to the author. Read her review here....

Between the lines: Gladys Bembo  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Brisbane Writers Festival made international news after the controversial opening speech of American author Lionel Shriver. In deciding to stray from her original brief of talking about ‘community and...