Position Doubtful: Mapping Landscape and Memories (Kim Mahood, Scribe)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Artist and writer Kim Mahood grew up on Tanami Downs Station in the Northern Territory. She has always felt the strong pull of the land and its Indigenous people, and...
Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (Ashleigh Wilson, Text)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
It just so happens that I was reading Our Man Elsewhere by Thornton McCamish and considering what makes a good biography when Ashleigh Wilson’s Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the...
Writing to the Wire (ed by Dan Disney & Kit Kelen, UWA Publishing)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
What place is there for poetry in Australia’s highly divisive and politicised public debate about refugees and immigration? It’s a question the editors of this significant new collection of both...
Truly Madly Guilty (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Liane Moriarty is an author with a dedicated fan-base, and it seems only fair to preface this review by saying I have not read any of her previous novels. Not...
Skylarking (Kate Mildenhall, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Kate Mildenhall’s debut novel Skylarking is a historical novel reminiscent of Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites and Shirley Barrett’s Rush Oh!, though perhaps for a younger readership. It’s a story of...
Songs That Sound like Blood (Jared Thomas, Magabala)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Growing up in Port Augusta is restricting Roxy’s dream to become a musician, but when she is accepted to Adelaide University’s Centre of Aboriginal Studies in Music, she feels conflicted...
The Shark Caller (Dianne Wolfer, Random House)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Shark Caller breaks new ground in junior YA fiction. Dianne Wolfer blends a mystical tale about legends and traditions in Papua New Guinea with issues such as saving a...
Remaking history: Kate Mildenhall on ‘Skylarking’
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Kate Mildenhall’s Skylarking (Black Inc., August) is a historical novel about an intense female friendship. Reviewer Angela Andrewes spoke to the author. Skylarking is based on historical events. What drew...
The Nose Pixies (David Hunt, illus by Lucia Masciullo, ABC Books)
Monday, 9 May 2016
Everyone has heard of the tooth fairy, but what of the lesser-known nose pixies? The tiny, wingless pixies live in the royal kingdom of Schnozz, but instead of teeth they...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 9 May 2016
This week’s highest new entry and overall bestseller is David Baldacci’s latest book in the ‘Amos Decker’ series, The Last Mile (Macmillan), which enters a top 10 chart dominated by...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 6 May 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in June and July 2016, including three five-star reviews. Reviewer Margaret Hamilton awarded top marks to My Brother (Dee, Oliver...
One Step (Andrew Daddo, Penguin)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Dylan is an average young guy; his life revolves around school, his family and his burgeoning interest in girls. However, all is not as it seems, and after bearing the...
One Would Think the Deep (Claire Zorn, UQP)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
When Sam calls his Aunty Lorraine for the first time in seven years, it’s to tell her that his mum, her sister, is dead. It’s also to tell her that...
The Road to Winter (Mark Smith, Text)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Since the virus, Finn lives alone in his small coastal town with just his dog for company. He keeps his head down and lives off the supplies his father stored...
My Brother (Dee, Oliver and Tiffany Huxley, Working Title Press)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
This profoundly moving picture book is about the overwhelming sorrow and sense of loss that follows the death of a loved one. The simple, expressive text, with carefully chosen words,...
The Other Christy (Oliver Phommavanh, Puffin)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Eleven-year-old Christy Ung has tried hard to fit in and make friends since she and her grandpa moved to Australia from Cambodia. At school, though, she’s almost invisible: thanks to...
Black (Fleur Ferris, Random House)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Is Ebony Marshall cursed? Three of her closest friends have died in separate accidents, and some people in her small Victorian country town are convinced she is bad luck. Ebony...
When Michael Met Mina (Randa Abdel-Fattah, Pan)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Michael and Mina could not be more different: she’s a ‘scholarship girl’ originally from Afghanistan and about to begin Year 11 at a posh new school in Sydney; he comes...
Dragonfly Song (Wendy Orr, A&U)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Born into privilege that is swiftly taken from her, Aissa learns early how painful life can be. In servitude at the age of four, never speaking and frequently mistreated, she...
Forgetting Foster (Dianne Touchell, A&U)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Brutally honest and unflinching in its examination of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on an entire family, Forgetting Foster is a beautiful, heart-wrenching book that will stay with you. Seven-year-old...
Steve Goes to Carnival (Joshua Button & Robyn Wells, Magabala)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
A picture book can often be a happy collaboration between an author and an illustrator; far more rarely is it the product of two artists. In Steve Goes to Carnival,...
All the rage: Claire Zorn on ‘One Would Think the Deep’
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Claire Zorn’s One Would Think the Deep is an exploration of violence and grief that ‘has all the trademark complexities of her first two novels’, writes reviewer Bec Kavanagh. She...
Race relations: Randa Abdel-Fattah on ‘When Michael Met Mina’
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s When Michael Met Mina follows the burgeoning relationship between Mina, a ‘scholarship girl’ originally from Afghanistan, and Michael, whose family belongs to a racist political organisation. Reviewer Frances...
On tour: Michael Grant
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Michael Grant’s latest book is Front Lines (HGE). He is travelling to the Sydney Writers’ Festival and Brisbane in May What would you put on a shelf-talker for your latest...
Small publisher spotlight: Monash University Publishing
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Melbourne-based Monash University Publishing released its first titles in 2010. Director Nathan Hollier spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company in under 50 words. Monash...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 2 May 2016
Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) has jumped back up to sixth spot on the top 10 bestsellers chart following the release of a trailer for the October...
Ruins (Rajith Savanadasa, Hachette)
Friday, 29 April 2016
Told from five viewpoints—mother, father, daughter, son, servant—Rajith Savanadasa’s debut novel is a ‘family bildungsroman’ which unfolds during the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war. Latha, aging servant...
On tour: Hanya Yanagihara
Friday, 29 April 2016
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your latest book? A fairytale about male romance set in someplace that feels a lot like New York City in a time...
On tour: Herman Koch
Friday, 29 April 2016
Dutch writer Herman Koch is the author of the satirical novel The Dinner (Text). His latest book Dear Mr M (Text) will be released in August. He is travelling to...
Rebellious Daughters (ed by Maria Katsonis & Lee Kofman, Ventura Press)
Friday, 29 April 2016
Rebellious Daughters features a stellar line-up of Australian female writers sharing touching stories of rebellion, family life, coming of age and motherhood. Edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman, this...
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