Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction
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...
Zoe Dattner: Open letter to the industry
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
I first began working in publishing some 12 years ago in the Melbourne offices of a large international publishing company. There was a stationery department and a compactus room and...
The rights stuff: Australian rights trading in 2012
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...
Cooking the books: Food and drink feature
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...
George to replace Allely at PMP
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Griffin Press parent company PMP has announced that Peter George, currently chief operating officer, will replace Richard Allely as managing director this month. In a statement to the Australian Stock...
Victorian bookshop for sale
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Country Tales Bookstore in Bright, Victoria, is currently for sale. Owner Sally Taylor, who opened the independent store in early 2010, told Bookseller+Publisher that she is selling the business as...
New Byron Bay library expected to open in December
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
The construction of a new public library in Byron Bay, NSW, is expected to be completed by December. The new $3.75 million facility is located on the corner of Lawson...
Thomas Minkus: Guest of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference
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...
Get Smart
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...
Junior book bites
Monday, 15 October 2012
A taste of forthcoming Junior books. Picture books A number of lovely board books are out later this year, including a some readalong picture books by Alison Lester: Run like...
Parrett wins Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship
Monday, 15 October 2012
Favel Parrett has been awarded the 2012 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship by the Federal Government. Parrett, whose debut novel Past the Shallows (Hachette) won the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer...
Parrett wins Antarctic Arts Fellowship for second novel
Monday, 15 October 2012
Favel Parrett has been awarded the 2012 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship by the Australian Federal Government. Parrett, author of Past the Shallows (Hachette), will use the fellowship to research a novel...
Movie double-pass giveaway!
Monday, 15 October 2012
Crossfire Hurricane, which takes its title from the opening lines to 'Jumping Jack Flash', provides a new perspective on the Rolling Stones’ journey. The film combines previously unseen historical footage with...
RiP Helen Nicoll
Monday, 15 October 2012
British author Helen Nicoll, best known as the writer of the 'Meg and Mog' books for children, has died aged 74. Nicoll wrote 17 books, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski, about...
Rights round-up
Monday, 15 October 2012
Sales Fiction—Spinifex Press has sold Macedonian rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus). Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed the UK rights to Ishmael and the hoops of Steel (Michael Gerard Bauer); Brazilian...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 October 2012
In Rick Riordan’s YA novel The Mark of Athena (Puffin), Annabeth and her friends have landed at camp Jupiter to unite the Roman and Greek demigods and combine forces to...
Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
Friday, 12 October 2012
The 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Mo Yan. The Chinese author, whose real name is Guan Moye, was presented with the award on 11 October by Peter Englund,...
Oz, NZ authors nominated for 2013 Astrid Lindgren Award
Friday, 12 October 2012
Four Australian authors and two New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2013 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature. Australian authors...
Interview with Nick Falk on ‘Saurus Street’
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...
Interview with Catherine Jinks on ‘A Very Unusual Pursuit’
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...
What teenagers want
Friday, 12 October 2012
Jordi Kerr takes us behind the scenes during this year’s Inky shortlisting process. I am not a teenager. No matter how many books I read or teenagers I talk to,...
A picture of gender
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...
Show and tell
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...
Meet publisher Julia Marshall
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...
Kobo to partner with NZ indies, Paper Plus
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Kobo will become the dominant ebook provider in New Zealand as a result of new partnerships with Booksellers New Zealand members and the Paper Plus Group. Kobo announced the new retail...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
‘We were unable to obtain repayment from him of Canongate's substantial advance, which had to be written off’—Canongate chairman Christopher Bland, who said that the company’s operating loss of £368,467...
Campion Education relaunches ebookstore with ReadCloud
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Campion Education has relaunched its ebookstore on the ReadCloud platform. The store, which was previously called Read Without Paper, has also been rebranded under the Campion name. As previously reported...
A&U advertises for new Murdoch Books staff
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Allen & Unwin is advertising for four new staff members, including two publishers, to work within the Murdoch Books business, which it acquired this month. A&U is advertising for a...
International Library News
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
OverDrive releases app for Nook OverDrive has released a free app for Barnes & Noble’s Nook ereading devices in the US which will allow Nook users to borrow ebook and MP3...
In brief
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Sydney library design project attracts entries from 30 countries A competition to design the new Green Square Library and Plaza in Sydney has attracted 168 entries from architects in 30 countries....
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