Identity crisis? Andrew Nette on the state of Australian crime fiction
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
‘British crime has a strong tradition of the mystery. American crime also has a strong noir tradition that still exists today and is constantly being re-invented. And there has been...
Susan Johnson’s ‘The Landing’
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
The Landing is a boutique Queensland suburb full of summer houses for the financially comfortable with all their associated dramas. After his wife leaves him for a woman, Jonathan Lott...
Dymocks Glenelg wins top award at Dymocks national conference
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Dymocks Glenelg in Adelaide has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at this year’s Dymocks national conference, which was held in Surfers Paradise from 16-18 August.Awards were also presented...
Charts this week
Monday, 17 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom Millie Marotta Batsford 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee...
Inkerman & Blunt acquires five Nick Earls novellas
Monday, 17 August 2015
Melbourne-based small publisher Inkerman & Blunt has acquired five novellas by Nick Earls, to be published over five months beginning in June 2016. Publisher Donna Ward told Books+Publishing that Inkerman...
NZ Children’s Book Awards 2015 winners announced
Friday, 14 August 2015
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are:Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Singing Home the Whale (Mandy...
Gift ideas for Father’s Day
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
With Father’s Day less than a month away, Tim Coronel rounds up some bookish gift ideas for dads. Read his feature online here.
Vikki Wakefield’s ‘Inbetween Days’
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
The small-town setting of Mobius captures and amplifies the isolation of adolescence. It is the perfect backdrop for Inbetween Days, a story about the bruises left on our hearts by...
Charts this week
Monday, 10 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 2 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann 3 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom Millie...
New magazine to focus on international children’s literature
Monday, 10 August 2015
A new magazine focussing on international children’s literature will launch in 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. The Read Quarterly is co-founded by UK-based children’s book specialists, Sarah Odedina, young readers’ publisher...
Redgum launches Young Writers’ Award for children
Friday, 7 August 2015
Redgum Book Club has launched a Young Writers’ Award for children aged nine to 13, with the winning books to be published and distributed to bookstores and libraries.The award includes two...
Video created the publishing star
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
A number of high-profile vloggers have recently announced book deals. Danielle Binks finds out whether the trend is taking off in Australia. Read her article here.
Shirley Barrett’s ‘Rush Oh!’
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Screenwriter and director Shirley Barrett has mixed fact and fiction to tell the story of the whaling community of Eden in New South Wales in the early years of the...
RiP Kat Muscat
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Kat Muscat, a Melbourne writer and former editor of the magazine Voiceworks, has died, aged 25.Adolfo Aranjuez, who was deputy editor of Voiceworks during Muscat’s editorship, writes:‘I first met Kat...
Charts this week
Monday, 3 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 The Little Book of Calm...
Wilderness Society announces 2015 children’s book award winners
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The winners of the 2015 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced.The winning books in each category are:Fiction Rescue on Nim’s Island (Wendy Orr, illus by Geoff...
RiP Hugh Stretton
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Australian author and social theorist Hugh Stretton has died, aged 91. Stretton was the author of several works on social theory and economics, including Australia Fair (UNSW Press), as well...
Publishing job ads in decline
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The publishing industry has seen a steady drop in job ads advertising in the Weekly Book Newsletter over the past few years, with publishers attributing the decline to lower staff...
Charlotte Wood’s ‘The Natural Way of Things’
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The latest novel from the author of Animal People and Love and Hunger is a powerful story of misogyny and corporate control taken to disturbing extremes … read Portia Lindsay’s...
SPN appoints new conference manager, announces 2015 conference dates
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The Small Press Network (SPN) has appointed Lefa Singleton Norton as its conference manager for the 2015 Independent Publishing Conference, to be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 19-21 November.SPN...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 July 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann 2 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 3 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons...
The Wheeler Centre launches children’s illustration prize
Friday, 24 July 2015
The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne has launched the inaugural Ullin Prize for children’s illustration. The prize, named after the founder of The Little Bookroom Albert Ullin, will be presented annually at the Children’s...
Scribe announces new children’s book imprint
Friday, 24 July 2015
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe has announced the launch of its new children’s book imprint, Scribble.The imprint, which will be led by Scribe art director Miriam Rosenbloom as commissioning editor, will publish around...
Free children’s book vending machines placed in US ‘book deserts’
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Airline JetBlue, Random House and author Mary Pope Osborne have placed vending machines stocked with free children’s books in Washington DC communities it calls ‘book deserts’, reports Publishing Perspectives. Under...
David M Henley on the popularity of fantasy vs sci-fi
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Why is fantasy trumping science-fiction on the shelves? Sci-fi author David M Henley believes ‘technobabble, moralising and a high chance of crapness’ may be to blame. Read his opinion piece here.
Gail Jones’ ‘A Guide to Berlin’
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Gail Jones’ sixth novel, A Guide to Berlin, is named after a short story by Vladimir Nabokov and offers more than a nod to his work. During a harsh winter...
Charts this week
Monday, 20 July 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 Fabulous Flowers Michael O'Mara 4 Decorative Designs...
#LoveOzYA campaign gathers momentum
Monday, 20 July 2015
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum.Book blogger Danielle Binks told Books+Publishing that the #LoveOzYA campaign is inspired...
HarperCollins acquires rights to book by NZ ‘social media sensation’
Friday, 17 July 2015
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jamie’s World: They Let Me Write a Book! by New Zealand ‘social media sensation’ Jamie Curry.The publisher has described Curry’s book as ‘a journey through her mind...
Picture this: Market growth for illustrated children’s nonfiction
Thursday, 16 July 2015
A renewed interest in books as beautiful objects has boosted the market for illustrated children’s nonfiction, writes Carody Culver. While most people tend to think of picture books in terms of fiction,...
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