Bestsellers this week
Monday, 28 November 2016
The original screenplay of J K Rowling’s latest ‘Harry Potter’ outing, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Little Brown) has debuted at the top of this week’s top 10...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 21 November 2016
This week’s two highest new entries, Lee Child’s Night School (Bantam) and David Walliams’ The Midnight Gang (HarperCollins), have debuted in second and third spots respectively in the top 10...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 14 November 2016
This week’s top 10 bestsellers has a new number one. Jeff Kinney’s Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) has debuted in first place, with Matthew Reilly’s The Four...
Choose your own adventures: 2017 children’s and YA preview
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Next year will see the launch of Affirm Press’ children’s list, starting with A Walk in the Bush (Gwyn Perkins, March), ‘a joyful story about enjoying nature and seeing the funny side of...
Small publisher spotlight: About Kids Books
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
About Kids Books was launched in 2015 in Wollongong, NSW, and specialises in novels for middle-grade readers. Founder (and author and teacher) Di Bates spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 7 November 2016
This week’s five highest new entries have all debuted in the top 15 on the overall bestsellers chart, with the top four—led by John Grisham’s The Whistler (Hachette)—all in the...
Small publisher spotlight: Busybird Publishing
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2009, Busybird Publishing is a ‘boutique micropublisher’ that combines traditional and fee-for-service publishing. ‘But we also do lots of other things,’ says publications manager Les Zigomanis....
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 31 October 2016
Matthew Reilly’s The Four Legendary Kingdoms (Macmillan) has debuted in top spot and as the highest new entry on the Australian bestsellers chart this week. The fourth instalment in Reilly’s ‘Jack...
On tour: Kate Summerscale
Thursday, 27 October 2016
UK author Kate Summerscale’s latest book The Wicked Boy (Bloomsbury) is the true story of a Victorian-era juvenile murder case that echoes the ‘outrageous plots’ of a penny dreadful novel. She...
Booking ahead: 2017 fiction preview
Thursday, 27 October 2016
In August, Black Inc. will publish Ruby J Murray’s second novel The Biographer’s Lover, which tells the dual stories of a biographer and her subject, an Australian artist. Murray’s exploration...
Booking ahead: 2017 nonfiction preview
Thursday, 27 October 2016
‘Following in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac, sober’ is the tantalising subtitle of Lennox Nicholson’s travel tale On the Wagon, which will be published by Affirm Press in February. Nicholson,...
Small publisher spotlight: Threekookaburras
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2013, Threekookaburras has a ‘low-cost, profit-sharing model that slots between self-publishers and the bigger, independent presses’. Founder Annie Hall spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 24 October 2016
The film tie-in edition of The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins, Black Swan) has climbed to the top of this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, with Working Class Boy...
Small publisher spotlight: Connor Court Publishing
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Founded in 2005 in Ballarat, Victoria, and now based in Redland Bay, Queensland, Connor Court Publishing specialises in titles that ‘challenge the status quo’. Founder Anthony Cappello spoke to Books+Publishing...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 17 October 2016
The top three titles in the bestsellers chart remain unchanged this week, with Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Boy (HarperCollins) in first place for the third week in a row, followed...
The Thank You Dish (Trace Balla, A&U)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Thank You Dish is a whimsical picture book from Trace Balla, author and illustrator of Rivertime and Rockhopping. The book centres on Grace and Mama, who are thanking the people,...
Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys’ previous collaboration was the superb, award-winning The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, and their follow-up, Under the Love Umbrella, has a similar charm—if not quite the same...
Ballad for a Mad Girl (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Grace is the prankster in her group of friends, the odd one of the odd ones out. She’s always been known for taking a joke further, and for being the...
The Turnkey (Allison Rushby, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Witnessing the turbulence and devastation of World War II during the London Blitz would prove challenging for any 12-year-old girl, but Flossie Birdwhistle is no ordinary girl—she is a ghost....
Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky (Robert Newton, Puffin)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Thirteen-year-old Lexie lives in a grey housing commission flat in Melbourne and dreams of starting a new life on the Sunshine Coast. She’s struggling to deal with her junkie mum,...
A Walk in the Bush (Gwyn Perkins, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Iggy has to be coaxed out of his various hidey holes to visit the great outdoors. With his keen guardian (possibly a grandfather), Iggy is taken to the bush and...
1, 2 Pirate Stew (Kylie Howarth, Five Mile Press)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
This book is all about the joy of playing in a cardboard box, which seems to have been largely replaced these days by more complicated activities, but is still a...
And Then I Found Me (Noel Tovey, Magabala Books)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Noel Tovey has led an amazing life. He went from a terrible childhood of deprivation and abuse to become one of Australia’s great artistic exports, before returning home to be...
No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson (Jeff Sparrow, Scribe)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an African-American singer, actor and political activist. His father was a slave, yet Robeson was able to carve out an acting and music career despite facing...
Jean Harley Was Here (Heather Taylor Johnson, UQP)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Heather Taylor Johnson’s second novel Jean Harley Was Here is an exploration of grief, with each chapter presenting a different glimpse into the aftermath of the character Jean Harley’s death,...
The Green Bell: A Memoir of Love, Madness and Poetry (Paula Keogh, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Paula Keogh suffers a breakdown following the death of her best friend Julianne. It is while undergoing treatment in M Ward—the psychiatric unit of Canberra Hospital—that she meets the poet...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 10 October 2016
Hannah Kent’s second novel The Good People (Picador) has debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart at number eight—making it this week’s highest new entry. It’s followed on the highest...
Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby
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....
A life re-examined: Jeff Sparrow on ‘No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson’
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Jeff Sparrow’s book on African-American singer, actor and political activist Paul Robeson combines ‘essay, journalism, history and biography to produce something engaging, original and insightful’, writes reviewer Chris Saliba. He...
Booking ahead: 2017 fiction preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Several Australian authors make their long-awaited return to publishing next year, alongside some promising debuts. Andrea Hanke and Vicki Stegink round up publishers’ fiction highlights for 2017. (See nonfiction titles here.)...
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