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Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2018

30 October 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth—and final—issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of forthcoming adult and children’s books due to be published between December 2018 and March 2019. Reviews: Of the 17 adult...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2018

31 August 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from September to November. Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, four...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

6 July 2018
Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in September 2018. Catching Teller Crow (A&U), a 'hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements' by...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 2 2018

5 July 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s second issue for 2018 is out now! It features 34 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from July to August. Reviews:  Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue,...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

29 June 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains five reviews of books publishing in September. Reviewer Simon McDonald gave 4.5 stars to Stephanie Bishop’s third novel, Man Out of Time (Hachette), describing it as 'a...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

19 June 2018
Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains 13 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2018. Barry Jonsberg’s middle-grade novel A Song Only I Can Hear (A&U, July) received the maximum...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

7 June 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in July and August. Chris Hammer's novel, Scrublands (A&U, August) received five stars from reviewer Scott Whitmont. Hammer's fiction debut—in which a...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

16 May 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in July. Christian White's debut novel, the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize-winning The Nowhere Child (Affirm, July), received four and a half stars...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 1 2018

24 April 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s first issue for 2018 is out now! It features 26 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing in April to June. Reviews: Of the 13 adult books reviewed in this...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

20 April 2018
Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in April, May and June 2018. Eleni Hale’s debut YA novel, Stone Girl (Penguin, May), received five stars from reviewer...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

5 April 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in May and June. Historian Peter Cochrane's novel The Making of Martin Sparrow (Viking, May) received five stars from reviewer...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

2 March 2018
Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains nine reviews of books publishing in April 2018. Three books scored the maximum five-star rating: a science-based adventure story for younger readers, How to Win...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

26 February 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains nine reviews of books publishing in April. Holly Ringland's debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate) has already sold in 18 foreign...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

2 February 2018
Books+Publishing’s first Junior newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in February and March 2018. Two books scored the maximum five-star rating: a new picture-book collaboration between Jane Godwin, Alison...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

31 January 2018
Books+Publishing’s first Reviews newsletter for 2018 contains 13 reviews of books publishing in February and March. Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut (Hamish Hamilton, March), received a five-star rating...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

3 November 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in February and March 2018, as well as a preview of Australian publishers’ most anticipated children’s and YA releases in...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

26 October 2017
Books+Publishing’s final Reviews newsletter for 2017 contains 14 reviews of books publishing in January, February and March 2018, as well as previews of Australian publishers’ most anticipated 2018 releases. Michael...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2017 

20 October 2017
Issue 4 of Books+Publishing magazine is out now! Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, the two most highly rated are forthcoming novels: Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s The...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

6 October 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in December 2017 to February 2018. Two books scored four-and-a-half stars: Catherine Pelosi’s junior-fiction debut Quark’s Academy (Lothian, February); and...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

2 October 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains eight reviews of books publishing in October, November and December. The highest-scoring book was Alexis Wright’s biography of Indigenous activist Tracker Tilmouth, Tracker (Giramondo, November),...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

8 September 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in September, October and November. Two November picture books scored the highest possible rating of 5 stars: Swan Lake (Anne Spudvilas, A&U)...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

1 September 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 11 reviews of books publishing in October and November. Gabriella Coslovich’s investigation of an alleged art fraud in Australia, Whiteley on Trial (MUP, October), received...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

4 August 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 13 reviews of books publishing in October. Four books scored 4.5 stars from our reviewers, including three picture books: Danny Blue’s Really Excellent Dream (Max Landrak, Lothian,...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

28 July 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in August, September and October. Four books received 4.5 stars, including Jeremy Chambers’ ‘nostalgic 1980s coming-of-age story’ Suburbia (Text, October). ‘Chambers’ writing feels...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2017

17 July 2017
Issue 3 of Books+Publishing magazine is out now! Reviews: Plenty of forthcoming Christmas highlights are among the 13 adult books reviewed in this issue, with Sofie Laguna’s The Choke (A&U, September), the...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

10 July 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in September. The ‘profoundly moving love poem’ Pea Pod Lullaby (Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen Michael King, A&U) received five...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now 

30 June 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in August and September 2017. Our reviewers were very happy with the books on offer in this issue, with eight...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

2 June 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 22 reviews of books publishing in July and August. The two highest-scoring titles, with five stars each, were the YA novels Because of You by...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

26 May 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest reviews newsletter contains 20 reviews of books publishing in June to August. The highest-scoring books were Brigid Delaney’s nonfiction title Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness (Nero,...