Winter Institute 2019: Staff engagement, tech tools and ‘surviving the political divide’
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Jay Lansdown, owner of Sydney bookshop The Constant Reader and vice-president of the Australian Booksellers Association, attended this year’s Winter Institute, an annual conference held by the American Booksellers Association, which...
Charts this week
Monday, 11 February 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Fast 800 Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Easy Keto Pete...
Manus detainee Boochani accepts the Victorian Prize for Literature
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
'This proves that words still have the power to challenge inhumane systems and structures. I have always said that I believe in words and literature. I believe that literature has...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
This year, Books+Publishing will publish a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction The...
Nicola Redhouse’s ‘Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Mind and Brain’
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
'Redhouse’s illness and recovery after both children, and how it relates to her own ideas of motherhood is another strand of this memoir. In this sense the book reads pleasingly...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Sales Fiction Spinifex has sold Turkish-language rights to Feminist Fables (Suniti Namjoshi) to Güldünya Yayınları. Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Soon (Lois Murphy) in a two-book deal to...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 February 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Fast 800 Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 The Subtle Art...
‘The Saturday Paper’ shelves anonymous book reviews
Thursday, 31 January 2019
‘The problem with pseudonymous reviewing is that it deprives us, as readers, of encountering strong critical voices and developing a relationship with them at a point when Australian book reviewing...
Publicity round-up
Thursday, 31 January 2019
This year, Books+Publishing will publish a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction The...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold Danish rights to Border Districts (Gerald Murnane) to Forlaget THP. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Arabic rights in Saudi Arabia to The Motivation Hoax: A Smart Person's...
Gabrielle Tozer’s ‘Melody Trumpet’
Thursday, 31 January 2019
'Gabrielle Tozer has previously written three young adult novels, most recently Remind Me How This Ends. She excels in smart, snappy dialogue and imbues her creations with plenty of character...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 The Fast 800 Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster 3 The Subtle Art...
ASA pens open letter condemning unauthorised lending
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
'Australian authors, along with their counterparts around the world, are struggling to generate a sustainable income from their work ... While authors are happy for their work to be read...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
This year, Books+Publishing will publish a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction The...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Sales Fiction Fiona Inglis of Curtis Brown Australia sold ANZ rights to Angel Mage and The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Garth Nix) to Allen & Unwin; Jill Grinberg of Jill...
Jacqueline Kent’s ‘Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook’
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
'Through her brief relationship with Cook, Kent came to know a much more complicated and nuanced person, who was much more of his generation than his novel would suggest. The...
Charts this week
Monday, 21 January 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Fast 800 Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Dog Man 6:...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
‘Too many editors and publishers “curate” collections such as this. They see writers fitting a particular niche—or even as a f–king brick in the creative wall. They instruct you too...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights to The Spotted Dog (Kerry Greenwood) to Poisoned Pen Press. Echo Publishing has sold North American rights to Fled (Meg Keneally) to...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
Starting this year, Books+Publishing will publish a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction...
Charts this week
Monday, 14 January 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 Dog Man 6: Brawl of the Wild Dav Pilkey Scholastic 3 The...
Podcast spotlight: what’s next?
Friday, 21 December 2018
Over the last 12 months, Nathania Gilson has been interviewing Australian book podcasters—from passion projects to national radio broadcasters, from hybrid experiments to extensions of retail brands, festivals or traditional...
UK industry agrees to code of conduct to address sexual harassment, discrimination
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
‘We have tried to go further than to remind everyone of what unacceptable behaviour looks like. We have tried to press “reset” on our complex business relationships, redrawing the line...
Podcast spotlight: The Wheeler Centre podcast
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Established in 2010, The Wheeler Centre (TWC) podcast features full recordings of talks hosted in TWC building in Melbourne. TWC senior digital editor Jon Tjhia has been working on the...
Christmas predictions: Louise Pfanner from Gleebooks in Sydney
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this final instalment...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold multiple translation rights to The Nowhere Child (Christian White) via Kaplan/Defiore: Greek-language rights to Pedio Publishing, Turkish-language rights to April Publishing, Norwegian-language rights to...
Alison Evans’ ‘Highway Bodies’
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
‘Highway Bodies is a compassionate story imbued with softness, which helps make the intense horrors and violence more digestible. Evans' second novel shares similarities with John Marsden’s 'Tomorrow' series and will be...
Audiobooks, data-driven publishing discussed at FutureBook 2018
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
The ‘audio gold rush’, data-driven publishing and the importance of surprise in an increasingly algorhythmic world were some of the topics covered at this year’s wide-ranging FutureBook Live conference, which...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Meltdown: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Past Tense Lee Child Bantam 3 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape...
Attendance up at SPN conference 2018, ‘incredibly positive’ response
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) seventh Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 22-24 November. SPN general manager Tim Coronel said the response to this...
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