Small publisher spotlight: Harbour Publishing House
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Harbour Publishing House, based on the South Coast of NSW, began publishing in 2014 and specialises in children’s literature. Director Garry Evans spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 29 August 2016
The 78-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has maintained its position at the top of the overall bestsellers chart this week, edging out Harry Potter and the Cursed...
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (Robert Jensen, Spinifex Press)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
The End of Patriarchy by US academic Robert Jensen is a summary explanation of how radical feminism informs politics, written for an audience of men. Readers should bring an entry-level...
On tour: Justin Cronin
Thursday, 25 August 2016
US novelist Justin Cronin is the author of the apocalyptic vampire trilogy The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors (all Orion). Cronin will be appearing at the Melbourne...
On tour: Molly Crabapple
Thursday, 25 August 2016
US artist and writer Molly Crabapple is the author of the memoir Drawing Blood (HarperCollins). She is appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in...
On tour: A C Grayling
Thursday, 25 August 2016
British philosopher A C Grayling’s latest book The Challenge of Things (Bloomsbury) is a collection of his recent writings on war and conflict. He is touring various writers’ festivals around...
Extinctions (Josephine Wilson, UWA Publishing)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Josephine Wilson was named the recipient of the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for her manuscript ‘Extinctions’. Chosen unanimously by the judges, that manuscript is now published by UWA Publishing as...
Victoria the Queen: The Woman Who Made the Modern World (Julia Baird, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Julia Baird’s excellent and sadly out-of-print first book, Media Tarts: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians, was an engrossing dissection of gender, politics and power with the pace and...
Case study: Mark Tedeschi on ‘Murder at Myall Creek’
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Mark Tedeschi’s Murder at Myall Creek (S&S) is an account of one of Australia’s most notorious criminal cases—11 men tried for the 1848 mass murder of up to 30 Indigenous Australians in...
All is Given: A Memoir in Songs (Linda Neil, UQP)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Linda Neil’s beguiling memoir All is Given deserves to be read by anyone with an ounce of adventure or romance in their soul, albeit with a touch of caution. As...
The Good People (Hannah Kent, Picador)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Nóra Leahy has suffered great misfortune. It is 1825 in the far west of Ireland, and her beloved husband has just died, most ominously, at a crossroads, only a few...
Murder at Myall Creek: The Trial That Defined a Nation (Mark Tedeschi, S&S)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Massacres of Indigenous Australians were not unusual during the early colonial history of Australia. What sets the 1838 mass murder at Myall Creek in central New South Wales apart was...
Cynthia Nolan: A Biography (M E McGuire, Melbourne Books)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
While many biographies have explored the story of Heide and its art community, M E McGuire takes a fresh look at that world and early 20th-century society through the eyes...
Grog: A Bottled History of Australia’s First 30 Years (Tom Gilling, Hachette)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Colonial Australia was born with a drinking problem. Like a lot of the infant colony’s problems, alcohol addiction was inherited from the mother country. Many historical narratives of Australia, most...
Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s (ed by Janine Burke & Helen Hughes, Scribe)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Sometimes studying the micro gives us the best view of the macro. Reading the essay collection Kiffy Rubbo is one of those experiences. Art curator Kiffy Rubbo provided space and...
Ruling women: Julia Baird on ‘Victoria the Queen’
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Julia Baird’s ‘thoroughly contemporary’ biography of Queen Victoria explores the social evolution of ‘British society during her long reign—particularly that of the position of women’, writes reviewer Jo Case. She spoke...
The Answer (Allan & Barbara Pease, Harlequin)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Body language and relationship experts Allan and Barbara Pease have sold over 20 million copies worldwide of their previous titles Why Men Don’t Listen and Woman Can’t Read Road Maps...
The Art of Keeping Secrets (Rachael Johns, Harlequin)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
The Australian book industry voted Rachael Johns’ The Patterson Girls its 2015 General Fiction Book of the Year. Her new novel will also appeal to mainstream women’s fiction readers, as...
Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir (Catherine de Saint Phalle, Transit Lounge)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Catherine de Saint Phalle’s first work of nonfiction, Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir, is an intricately woven narrative that centres on the author’s eccentric and charmingly flawed parents. Her...
Small publisher spotlight: Brandl & Schlesinger
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Established in 1994, NSW-based Brandl & Schlesinger publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and academic journals. Publisher Veronica Sumegi spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 August 2016
The 78-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has debuted at the top of this week’s highest new entries and overall bestsellers charts, unseating Harry Potter and the Cursed...
Small publisher spotlight: Celapene Press
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Melbourne-based Celapene Press released its first title—an anthology called Page Seventeen—in 2005 before specialising in children’s and YA fiction. Publisher Kathryn Duncan spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 August 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript (J K Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, Hachette) has debuted at the top of this week’s highest new entries and overall bestsellers chart...
Small publisher spotlight: Serenity Press
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Serenity Press was founded in Perth in 2012 to create publishing opportunities for emerging Australian authors. Founder Karen Mc Dermott spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe...
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent (Avan Judd Stallard, Monash University Press)
Monday, 8 August 2016
This remarkable book is about an imaginary place: Terra Australis Incognita, the Unknown Southern Land. Avan Judd Stallard tells the story of a geographical obsession and how it developed in...
Anything is Possible (Cosentino, HarperCollins)
Monday, 8 August 2016
Paul Cosentino was a 12-year-old boy with reading difficulties when he discovered a book on magic in his local library. With the support of his family, Paul’s fascination with magic...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 8 August 2016
Local author Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Truly Madly Guilty (Pan) is at the top of the overall bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. Moriarty’s previous novel The...
Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judge: Meleika
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Each year, a panel of teen judges from around the country select the shortlist for the Inky Awards for youth literature. Books+Publishing’s 16-year-old work experience student Alexandra Pixton spoke to...
Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judge: Tom
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Each year, a panel of teen judges from around the country select the shortlist for the Inky Awards for youth literature. Books+Publishing’s 16-year-old work experience student Alexandra Pixton spoke to...
Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judge: Cassandra
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Each year, a panel of teen judges from around the country select the shortlist for the Inky Awards for youth literature. Books+Publishing’s 16-year-old work experience student Alexandra Pixton spoke to...
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