Bestsellers this week
Monday, 6 March 2017
The film tie-in edition of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones (A&U) has entered the top 10 bestsellers chart this week in eighth spot following the film’s release in Australian cinemas. It’s...
Small publisher spotlight: Zabriskie Books
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Sydney-based Zabriskie Books is building a ‘beautiful, engaging and varied nonfiction catalogue’. Bookseller turned publisher Niki Zubrzycki spoke to Books+Publishing for our Small Publisher Spotlight series. Describe your company in...
Adult Fantasy (Briohny Doyle, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Is ‘adulthood’ still achieved by ticking off a series of milestones, like marriage, mortgages, careers and babies? How might those milestones—and our ability to tick them off—have changed since the...
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment (Jenny Valentish, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
‘Women,’ writes Jenny Valentish, ‘drink and take drugs because it’s fun. They do it to be bulletproof. To be more intimate, or more intimidating.’ For most, this use is manageable....
Australian Lives: An Intimate History (Anisa Puri & Alistair Thomson, Monash University Press)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Using interviews recorded by the National Library of Australia’s Australian Generations Oral History Project, the authors of this major book have selected the recorded stories of 50 people to provide...
The Hot Guy (Mel Campbell & Anthony Morris, Echo)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When sports publicist Cate is dumped by her boyfriend for inappropriate puns about polo and social climbing, her friends introduce her to The Hot Guy—refuge of dumped women everywhere and...
Congo Dawn (Katherine Scholes, Viking)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Gunfire and grenades. Suffering and bravery. Fathers and daughters. In her seventh adult novel, Katherine Scholes (author of The Rain Queen, The Stone Angel and The Perfect Wife) again draws...
The Hidden Hours (Sara Foster, S&S)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Arabella Lane is a beautiful, successful publishing executive whose body is found in the Thames following the office Christmas party. The last person to see Arabella alive is Eleanor, who...
A Hundred Small Lessons (Ashley Hay, A&U)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
A Hundred Small Lessons (the title is drawn from a Michael Ondaatje poem) explores notions of home, family, identity, creativity, ageing and our relationship with cities and the natural world....
The Midsummer Garden (Kirsty Manning, A&U)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
The Midsummer Garden is the first novel from former lifestyle and travel writer Kirsty Manning, and follows two storylines in tandem. One narrative centres on medieval French cook Artemisia and...
Rubik (Elizabeth Tan, Brio)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
In Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel-in-stories, the untimely death of young Perth woman Elena Rubik tears a hole in the fabric of reality, and the reader is thrown into a sprawling...
See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Like Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites and Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s The Love of a Bad Man, See What I Have Done is based on true crimes committed by women. In 1892, 32-year-old Lizzie...
Storyland (Catherine McKinnon, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Storyland by author and playwright Catherine McKinnon is a beautifully woven story of Australia: the land, the animals and the people—those who have always been here, those that have arrived,...
On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take (Karen Andrews, Miscellaneous Press)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Karen Andrews’ reputation as a writer, editor and publisher precedes her, and this slim volume of poetry tackles the course of a life with such tenderness and grace that you...
After (Nikki Gemmell, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Freedom is the right to choose the way we live, but what about the way we die? Euthanasia is a difficult subject and one that creates an emotional and political...
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock (Janelle McCulloch, Echo)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Strange, moody and yet also darkly comic, Picnic at Hanging Rock has enjoyed Australian classic status for close to 50 years. Is the novel fact or fiction? The question has...
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World since 1942 (Allan Gyngell, LTUP)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Allan Gyngell has written Fear of Abandonment with detail and insight drawn from a long career in foreign policy, from diplomat to intelligence advisor. It examines Australia’s involvement with the...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Peter Godfrey-Smith, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When we think of intelligence in the animal kingdom, it is usually the mammals that spring to mind, like dogs or chimps—the creatures that we can most easily identify with....
The Other Mother (Kelly Chandler, Affirm)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
When Kelly met Pete, it was easy, straightforward and just what she’d been looking for. Negotiating where she fitted into his life with two kids under six, however, would prove...
Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces is Everybody’s Business (Catherine Fox, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Catherine Fox’s new book explores the longstanding issue of gender imbalance in the workplace, interrogating ingrained myths and assumptions about why this problem persists. She looks at what she terms...
Things That Helped (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Canberra-based writer Jessica Friedmann makes an impressive debut with her essay collection Things That Helped. Having lived with depression her entire life, Friedmann has learnt to find comfort in cherished...
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Bernadette Brennan, Text)
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
I don’t think there has been a more significant writer in my bookselling life than Helen Garner—Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books. Every work...
Body of work: Karen Andrews on ‘On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take’
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Karen Andrews’ poetry collection, On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take (Miscellaneous Press, April), ‘tackles the course of a life with such tenderness and grace that you could be tricked...
System override: Elizabeth Tan on ‘Rubik’
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Elizabeth Tan’s Rubik is a novel of interconnected short stories with plotlines that explore ‘a sprawling world of shady corporations, sentient memes and hackable bodies’. The result is ‘conceptually and structurally...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 27 February 2017
This week’s charts contain some familiar titles, with Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wrightbooks) continuing its run as the number-one bestseller in the country, and Liane Moriarty taking four titles in...
Don’t Wake the Dingo (Sally Morgan, illus by Sarah Boese, Scholastic)
Monday, 27 February 2017
The rhythmic text, with frequent alliteration, makes this story perfect for reading aloud at bedtime. The dingo is asleep in a dim, dry cave, which is warm and comfortable. He’s...
The Beast of Hushing Wood (Gabrielle Wang, Puffin)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Ziggy Truegood isn’t looking forward to turning 12, and with a very good reason: every night for the past month she has dreamt she will drown on her birthday. With...
The Blue Cat (Ursula Dubosarsky, A&U)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Slow, dreamlike and meandering, The Blue Cat is a glimpse into life in wartime Australia. Set in Sydney in 1942, it follows Columba in her adventures with her force-of-nature best...
Jack of Spades (Sophie Masson, Eagle Books)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Prolific writer Sophie Masson’s latest book is a young-adult historical fiction, set in Europe in 1910. The book’s title refers to a card sent to 16-year-old English girl, Linda, from...
Mammoth Mistake: Starring Olive Black Book One (Alex Miles, illus by Maude Guesne, Affirm Press)
Monday, 27 February 2017
Mammoth Mistake is the first book in a new series by author Alex Miles, who, among other things, has written for the hugely successful ‘Zac Power’ series. Olive Black is...
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