Friday, 7 February 2014
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? If I had abandoned all claim to modesty, I might put: ‘The Lie is an enthralling, deeply moving story about three childhood...

Friday, 7 February 2014
‘Une souris verte qui courait dans l’herbe,’ French tutor Myriam Bourdon reads aloud to children at Readings bookstore in St Kilda. She then whispers the translation: ‘A green mouse that...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Epistolatory novels, Swiss noir and a dark new take on The Wizard of Oz are on Andrea Hanke’s 2014 reading listAndrea Hanke’s 2014 reading list. In a publishing industry that typically...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Reviewer Martin Shaw describes Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection  Foreign Soil (Hachette, May) as ‘vivid  and unforgettable’. (Read the review here.) Shaw spoke to the author.Last year you won the Victorian...

Friday, 7 February 2014
The first half of 2014 is all about books and series by favourite authors. JR Ward’s The King (Piatkus), book 12 of the immensely popular ‘Black Dagger Brotherhood’ series, is...

Friday, 7 February 2014
The next few months are looking promising for poetry fans. In February, Fremantle Press is publishing John Mateer’s Emptiness: Asian Poems 1998-2012. This is the ideal companion to Contemporary Asian...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Bully for Them is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who encountered bullying at school, including Christos Tsiolkas, Alice Pung, Megan Washington, Marieke Hardy,...

Friday, 7 February 2014
2014 is shaping up as a glorious year for audiobooks, with long-awaited classics and some up-to-the-minute new releases. Jeffrey Archer’s Be Careful What You Wish For (Macmillan Digital Audio, March),...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Following the success of her 2011 book Notebooks, the former director of the National Gallery of Australia Betty Churcher has written a companion title that focuses on her favourite artworks...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Much-loved children’s and YA author Jackie French is the new Australian Children’s Laureate. She spoke to Kate Blackwood about her plans for her term, which runs until 2015. Broadly speaking, what...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Zac Harding not only works as a community learning librarian at Shirley Library in Christchurch, New Zealand, but also runs a book blog and is a judge in the 2014...

Friday, 7 February 2014
With brand licensing proving to be a growing area in book publishing, Kate Blackwood asks three local publishers about their licensed lists. Hardie Grant EgmontThere are 12 brands on Hardie Grant...

Friday, 7 February 2014
A new chapterSome much-loved series have new instalments due out this year, while other series are just taking off. As a follow-up to the popular ‘Our Australian Girl’ series, Puffin...

Friday, 7 February 2014
As the centenary of World War I approaches, Brad Jefferies reports on the market for military histories. The audience for military history books can be divided into two broad categories: general...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Demand for graphic novels continues to grow, but how are booksellers, publishers and librarians responding? Portia Lindsay reports.At last year’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne, Raina Telgemeier’s graphic novels sold...

Friday, 7 February 2014
From its first store in Frankston’s Central Carpark to its forthcoming outlet in the Emporium Melbourne shopping complex, Robinsons Bookshop has come a long way. Owner Susanne Horman shares her...

Friday, 7 February 2014
Should the book industry drop the C-format paperback? Books+Publishing asked five booksellers.Mary Dalmau, general manager, Reader’s Feast Bookstore Nicole, our fiction buyer, and I see no reason to dispense with the C-format paperback. While...

Friday, 7 February 2014
There’s more than one way to publish and sell books. Andrea Hanke and Eloise Keating spoke to several publishers that have recently changed their business models. Simon & Schuster relaunches local...

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
In this age of fast-paced technological change, readers are faced with more choice than ever as to how and where to acquire their reading material. No longer is buying a...