Bestsellers this week
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Penguin Random House have claimed a hat-trick at the top of this week’s overall bestseller charts, with Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients: Quick and Easy Food (Michael Joseph) in top spot,...
Christmas predictions: Gavin Williams from Matilda and Lindy Jones from Abbey’s
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Gavin Williams, owner...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 December 2017
Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food (Michael Joseph) has toppled Jeff Kinney’s The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid to become the overall bestseller in this week’s top...
Books+Publishing: 2017 highlights and plans for 2018
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Before the Christmas rush takes over for another year, we thought it would be helpful to fill you in on some of Books+Publishing’s activities in 2017 and plans for 2018....
Christmas predictions: Kym Bagley and Rivis Donnelly from Dymocks Melbourne
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our latest instalment, Dymocks...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 27 November 2017
Jeff Kinney’s latest ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ title, The Getaway (Puffin), is at number one in the top 10 chart for a second consecutive week, with Jamie Oliver’s 5...
Christmas predictions: Perth booksellers Bill Liddelow from Boffins Books and Jane Seaton from Beaufort Street Books
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Boffins Books co-owner...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is leading the children’s book charge in this week’s bestsellers charts, with the latest instalment in Kinney’s series topping both...
Introducing Scale Free Network
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network publishes unique picture books and graphic novels ‘inspired by the microscopic world’. Co-founder Gregory Crocetti spoke to Think Australian: Describe your company in under...
‘The 91-Storey Treehouse’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 16 November 2017
The latest instalments in several bestselling Australian junior-fiction series have made it into the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart for October, including Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse,...
Two Shaun Tan books coming in 2018
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan has two books coming out in 2018. Hachette Australia will publish Tan’s new picture book Cicada—about ‘a bug working in an office and all the...
‘Boy’ wins Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Phil Cummings and Shane Devries’ picture book Boy (Scholastic) has won the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award. It tells the story of a young deaf boy who brings...
Not your average children’s book awards
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Australia has a rich and varied book awards scene. In children’s books this includes the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the...
Christmas predictions: Kath Pigou from Dymocks Adelaide
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Dymocks Adelaide store...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 13 November 2017
Jimmy Barnes’ memoir Working Class Man (HarperCollins) is the country’s bestseller for the second week in a row, in a top 10 chart dominated by established, well-known authors. Among them are...
Introducing Pantera Press’ millennial imprint
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Sydney-based publisher Pantera Press recently launched a new imprint called Lost the Plot that is aimed at the next generation of readers. Founders Martin Green and Alison Green spoke to...
‘The Windy Season’ wins prize for ‘exciting and exceptional’ Australian fiction
Thursday, 9 November 2017
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction—which recognises ‘exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature’—has gone to Sam Carmody’s debut novel, The Windy Season (Allen & Unwin), about a...
New voices attracting interest at Frankfurt
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair have reported interest across a broad range of titles, from literary debuts to ‘women’s commercial fiction’ to political memoirs. Interestingly, the...
‘Force of Nature’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: October Force of Nature, the follow-up to Jane Harper’s bestselling, award-winning crime-fiction debut The Dry, is at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for a...
Small press scores big rights sale
Thursday, 9 November 2017
The recently launched small press Brow Books has sold world rights to Shaun Prescott’s (pictured) debut novel The Town to Faber, which will publish the novel in the UK in...
Christmas predictions: John Purcell from Booktopia
Thursday, 9 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our first instalment, Booktopia’s...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 6 November 2017
Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Man (HarperCollins) has shot to the top of the overall bestsellers chart in its first week of release. Anticipation for the second volume of the singer’s...
Reading ahead: 2018 children’s and YA preview
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
2018 sees the release of a new YA series from Jay Kristoff and a middle-grade series from Amie Kaufman; the re-release of a 10-year-old series from Liane Moriarty; and the...
From the heart: Shivaun Plozza on ‘Tin Heart’
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
In her second YA novel Tin Heart (Penguin, March), Shivaun Plozza tells the story of a teenage girl who undergoes an organ transplant. The book ‘cements Plozza as a writer with...
If I Tell You (Alicia Tuckerman, Pantera)
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Seventeen-year-old Alexandra has known for a while that she is a lesbian but she hasn’t told anyone. When a new family moves to her small country town and spiteful gossip starts to...
Room on Our Rock (Kate and Jol Temple, illus by Terri Rose Baynton, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
It’s never too early to instil empathy and compassion in the formative minds of the young, and Room on Our Rock does an admirable job in cultivating such qualities in...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 30 October 2017
Dan Brown’s Origin (Bantam) has claimed the top spot in the overall bestsellers chart for the third week in a row, ahead of a resilient The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape,...
Write on: 2018 nonfiction preview
Thursday, 26 October 2017
Andrea Hanke reports on Australian publishers’ local nonfiction highlights for 2018. Click here for the full preview. Recently retired Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy will release his memoir with Black...
Write on: 2018 fiction preview
Thursday, 26 October 2017
New books by Ceridwen Dovey, Kristina Olsson, Melissa Lucashenko, Lloyd Jones and Gerald Murnane, and a number of highly anticipated debuts, are among Australian publishers’ local highlights for 2018, reports...
Flight of fantasy: Tracy Sorensen on ‘The Lucky Galah’
Thursday, 26 October 2017
Tracy Sorensen’s The Lucky Galah (Picador, March) recounts the lives of ordinary Australians from the 1960s until the 2000s, as narrated by a galah called Lucky. The conceit is handled...
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