Wilderness Society announces 2015 children’s book award shortlists
Thursday, 28 May 2015
The shortlists for the 2015 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced, including a new category for nonfiction titles.The shortlisted books in each category are:Fiction Lulu Bell...
Australian Children’s Laureate program calls for industry support to ‘secure future’
Thursday, 28 May 2015
The Australian Children’s Laureate Alliance (ACLA) has launched a fundraising campaign to ‘secure the future of the program’.‘We need the industry to support the Laureate because the Laureate is all...
‘We Need Diverse Books’ in Australia
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
A US-led campaign to address the lack of diversity in children’s literature has sparked long-overdue conversations in Australia, writes Danielle Binks. She looks at what local publishers and industry conferences such...
Aaron Blabey’s ‘The Bad Guys: Episode 1’
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Award-winning picture-book author Aaron Blabey turns his hand to junior chapter books with hilarious effect. Mr Wolf, one of the original bad guys from fairy legend, is tired of being...
UK report finds more children enjoy reading but gender gap remains
Thursday, 21 May 2015
In the UK, a literacy survey has found that reading for enjoyment among young people has increased, but the gap between girls and boys in terms of reading for pleasure...
Consumer conflict: Publishers’ direct-to-consumer sales
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
While a growing number of Australian publishers are experimenting with direct-to-consumer sales, they remain wary of stepping on booksellers’ toes. Brad Jefferies spoke to both sides to see what programs...
Bill Neidjie and Mark Lang’s ‘Old Man’s Story’
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Old Man’s Story will appeal to many readers, particularly those interested in the environment and Indigenous culture. It gives the reader a wonderful sense of both the man and his...
Close to 60 indie bookstores attend 2015 Leading Edge Conference
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Representatives from close to 60 independent bookstores from across Australia attended this year’s Leading Edge Book conference, held in Melbourne from 15-16 May.Leading Edge marketing manager Galina Marinov told Books+Publishing...
More than 350 attendees, busiest trade exhibition in years at 2015 ABA conference
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Over 350 booksellers, suppliers and other industry members attended this year’s Australian Bookseller Association (ABA) Conference, which was held at the State Library of Victoria from 17-18 May.ABA CEO Joel Becker...
Hachette named Publisher of the Year at 2015 Leading Edge Books Conference
Monday, 18 May 2015
A number of awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Melbourne on 16 May.Hachette was named Publisher of the Year, breaking Allen & Unwin’s five-year winning...
‘The 52-Storey Treehouse’ wins Booksellers Choice Award at 2015 ABA Conference; bookseller awards announced
Monday, 18 May 2015
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has won the Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award at the Australian Booksellers Association’s ‘Celebrating Bookselling’ dinner and awards night on 17...
‘Word nerds’ assemble at editing and indexing conference
Friday, 15 May 2015
Write | Edit | Index was the first conference jointly hosted by the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI), incorporating the...
Alex Ross on book design and the ABDA shortlist
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) will announce the winners of the 2015 Book Design Awards at a ceremony in Sydney on 22 May. Books+Publishing asked ABDA president and Penguin...
Little Rebels Children’s Book Award winner announced
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Gill Lewis has won the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for radical children’s fiction for her book Scarlet Ibis (OUP), reports the Guardian. Lewis’ book for readers aged nine to...
Antonia Hayes’ ‘Relativity’
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Antonia Hayes’ debut novel Relativity is magnetising. Its highly original plot artfully reveals the mysteries behind a family rupture, at the heart of which is adorable 12-year-old protagonist Ethan, a...
PRH UK Children’s division creates one editorial team
Thursday, 7 May 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has restructured its children’s division to create one editorial team, reports the Bookseller. Editors at Random House Children’s Publishers and Puffin will continue...
Children’s Choice Book Awards 2015 winners announced in the US
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
In the US, the winners of the 2015 Children’s Book Council (CBC) Children’s Choice Book Awards have been announced. The awards, which are voted on by US children and teenagers, saw...
On tour: Meet the illustrator Priya Kuriyan
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Priya Kuriyan is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Delhi. She recently contributed to Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean (A&U), a YA speculative-fiction anthology featuring writers and artists from...
Kinokuniya’s Hiroshi Sogo on creating a ‘global niche’
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
‘A marketing buzzword in Japan at the moment is “consumption of experience” as opposed to products. We’ve noticed the growing importance in providing consumers with inspiring experience.’ Hiroshi Sogo, director...
Gideon Haigh’s ‘Certain Admissions’
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
One evening in December 1949, young Beth Williams accepted an invitation to dinner from John Bryan Kerr, a former radio star she originally met in her native Tasmania. Later that...
Andrew Fuller’s ‘Unlocking Your Child’s Genius’
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Don’t let the title mislead or deter you: ‘genius’ is perhaps too loaded a term; a better one is ‘potential’. The subtitle in fact is a bit more accurate: ‘How...
Book ideas for Mother’s Day
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Anthologies on motherhood and an abundance of baking books await this year’s Mother’s Day shoppers. Jackie Tang rounds up some of titles on offer here.
HGE Ampersand Project expands to include middle-grade manuscripts
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Project for unpublished writers has been opened to authors of middle-grade fiction—aimed at readers aged eight and up—for the first time in 2015.The project, which has been...
Wagner to launch children’s book publisher Billy Goat Books
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Author Michael Wagner is launching a new children’s book publisher Billy Goat Books.The first Billy Goat title, Pig Dude, is written by Wagner and illustrated by Adam Nickel, and is scheduled...
Going their own way: Publishers turn entrepreneur
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
After a successful career at the top of a large publishing house, where do you go? A few publishers have recently turned entrepreneur, utilising their skills and experience in the...
Matt Nable’s ‘Guilt’
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Switching between 1989 and 2009, Matt Nable’s book follows a group of teenagers in a beachside town and a single event that fractures their lives. Not unlike Christos Tsiolkas’ The...
Why small is good: Keiran Rogers on sales by small publishers
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
‘Forget the year of the horse; 2014 was the year of the small publisher. While the internationalisation of book sales and content has caused headaches for some of Australia’s big...
Monica Dux’s ‘Mothermorphosis’
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Australian women writers, including Kathy Lette, Kate Holden, Jo Case and Catherine Deveny, have contributed essays on their experiences of motherhood and birth to this collection. Edited by Monica Dux,...
On tour: Meet the author John Scalzi
Thursday, 9 April 2015
John Scalzi, author of Lock In and Redshirts (both Hachette), is travelling to Supernova in Melbourne and Swancon in Perth in April. Read Scalzi’s response to our On Tour questions, which cover The Secret...
Steve Toltz’s ‘Quicksand’
Thursday, 9 April 2015
This long-awaited follow-up to A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz’s 2008 Booker Prize-shortlisted debut, is similarly full of larrikin philosophers, artists and eccentrics hatching schemes and generally failing at...
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