Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
‘I’m not saying for a moment that money will return to the Australia Council. What I’m saying is that … the exact nature and design of the [National Program for...
RiP Jackie Collins
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
British-American author Jackie Collins has died, aged 77. Collins was the author of more than 30 novels, including The Stud, Hollywood Wives and her debut The World Is Full of Married...
RiP Dorothy Butler
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Dorothy Butler, New Zealand author and founder of the Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in Ponsonby, has died, aged 90. Butler was the author of several children’s books, including My Brown...
Campus calling: Karen Russell on her bookselling career
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Karen Russell is a career Co-op bookseller who spent a long time managing the Co-op Sunshine Coast store. ‘As the student population has grown, so too has the demand for us...
Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘Second Half First: A Memoir’
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Wise, vital and relayed in Modjeska’s restrained, sophisticated prose, it’s a major contribution to a literary lineage traceable to Virginia Woolf … read Gerard Elson’s full review here.
Charts this week
Monday, 21 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 Make Me Lee Child Bantam 3 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette...
Children’s book growth analysed at Nielsen Summit
Monday, 21 September 2015
Insights into the growth in the children’s book market were presented at the Nielsen Children’s Book Summit in New York on 15 September, reports Publishers Weekly. From January 2014 to...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
‘It is a remarkably staid collection of voices, one that does not represent Australian letters in their diverse and exciting entirety’—Australian writer Jessica Freidman on the make-up of the Book...
RiP Janis Brown
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Janis Brown, bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, Pulp Fiction in Brisbane and Reader’s Companion Bookshop in Armidale, has died, aged 55. Brown’s colleagues at Reader’s Companion, Yvonne and Bill...
Meet the Seizure Viva La Novella winners
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The three winning novellas in the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella competition were published last month. Books+Publishing spoke to the winners about their novellas and the editing process. Read our...
Todd Alexander’s ‘Tom Houghton’
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Tom Houghton is a classic first-person coming-of-age novel about a boy with huge dreams. 1986: 12-year-old Tom is a lonely and introverted child. He’s obsessed with Hollywood movie stars, and...
Pan Macmillan acquires Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Pan Macmillan has acquired The Dry by Jane Harper, the winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a three-book deal from Clare Forster at Curtis...
Charts this week
Monday, 14 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Make Me Lee Child Bantam 2 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 3 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
‘This is an unprecedented and extreme action by the Film and Literature Board of Review. Banning books is not the New Zealand way’—Publishers Association of New Zealand president Melanie Laville-Moore...
Taking cover: Should publishers use the same cover design for different territories?
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
In Books+Publishing’s latest talkback column we ask four booksellers, should publishers use the same cover design for different territories where possible? Read their responses here.
Magda Szubanski’s ‘Reckoning: A Memoir’
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best-known comedians but what’s less known is her interesting family history. Her father, who fought in the Polish resistance, lived with the scars of...
NZ Film and Literature Board puts interim ban on award-winning YA novel
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
New Zealand author Ted Dawe’s 2013 YA novel Into the River has been temporarily banned from sale or supply in his home country following complaints about its portrayal of teenagers...
Charts this week
Monday, 7 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 Make Me Lee Child Bantam 3 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette...
PRH buys world rights to bestselling self-published children’s book
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) have acquired world English-language rights to the self-published picture book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep (Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin) in a three-book deal with the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
‘Most of all, I witnessed a fierce determination to nurture and support their kids through reading and education, something often missing from the news coverage about indigenous communities we see...
RiP Wayne Dyer
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
US self-help author and speaker Wayne Dyer has died, aged 75. Dyer was a prolific author of self-help books, including the best-selling 1976 title Your Erroneous Zones (Piatkus) and his 2013 memoir,...
RiP Oliver Sacks
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
English-born author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has died, aged 82.Sacks was the acclaimed author of the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador), in which he...
Season’s Readings: Christmas 2015 titles
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
While Christmas is still over three months away, many publishers have already released their key titles for the seasonal selling period. Jackie Tang unwraps the titles on offer here.
Kate Morton’s ‘The Lake House’
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Kate Morton’s fifth novel transports the reader back and forth between 1930s Cornwall and London in 2003. This epic tale opens with the disappearance of a child on the eve...
Romance goes mainstream at RWA conference 2015
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) conference, which was held from 21-23 August at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne, attracted over 400 attendees, the largest in the organisation’s 24-year history....
Charts this week
Monday, 31 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 The Little Book of Calm Colouring David Sinden & Victoria Kay Macmillan 3 The Mindfulness...
Picture this: Market growth for illustrated children’s nonfiction
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
A renewed interest in books as beautiful objects has boosted the market for illustrated children’s nonfiction. Carody Culver explores the ‘genre’s’ rise in popularity in her article here.
‘New York Times’ alters children’s bestseller lists
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
In the US, The New York Times has altered its children’s bestseller lists so that hardcover, paperback and ebook titles are each listed separately in the categories of middle grade and...
Tony Birch’s ‘Ghost River’
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
In a story that takes in murderous crims, a band of garrulous vagrants and a hazily defined Pentecostalist-style cult, Ghost River engages and frustrates in equal measure … read Gerard...
Charts this week
Monday, 24 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 The Little Book of Calm Colouring David Sinden & Victoria Kay Macmillan 3 The Mindfulness...
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