Quote of the week
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
'The funding raid is especially galling because it is effectively a reverse Robin Hood: taking from the poorly funded independent sector to give to one of the wealthiest and best...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Sales Fiction Melanie Ostell Literary has sold world rights to The Whistler Calls (Greg Woodland) to Text. Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold North American and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights...
Toni Jordan’s ‘The Fragments’
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
‘Jordan’s writing moves at a fast skip and her descriptions of retail shifts and pre-internet research processes are particularly convincing. It’s a treat to step back into 1980s-era Australia with...
Podcast spotlight: Bookish Friends
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Established in 2016, Bookish Friends is a YA and genre fiction podcast created by Diem Nguyen. Each episode features a mix of conversation, book reviews, and interviews with Australian YA authors. Nguyen...
Charts this week
Monday, 1 October 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty Macmillan 2 The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton Allen & Unwin 3 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wiley...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
‘We can learn a lot by seeing what ideas and topics people considered unacceptable even 20 years ago ... That helps us to see the value of reading outside our...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to The Weight of a Human Heart (Ryan O’Neill) to Lightning Books. (See news.) Bonnier Books UK has...
Leigh Sales’ ‘Any Ordinary Day’
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
'Using her incisive journalistic skills, Sales presents the reader with both scientific research and vivid descriptions of her own and others’ encounters with tragedy. She presents the research with a...
Podcast spotlight: The First Time Podcast
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Launched in 2018, The First Time is a weekly podcast about the first time someone publishes a book. Supported by the ACT Writers Centre, Writers Victoria and RMIT University, each...
Digital Book World: Bradley Metrock on interactive books, accessibility and voice-first publishing
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Digital Book World (DBW) executive producer Bradley Metrock offers some insights on the topics that will be covered DBW conference, which will run from 2-4 October in Nashville, USA. The...
Charts this week
Monday, 24 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton Allen & Unwin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Ottolenghi Simple Yotam...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Sales Fiction Caroline Dawnay at United Agents sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada and ANZ) rights to The Beat of the Pendulum (Catherine Chidgey) to Lightning Books (see news). Children’s...
Podcast spotlight: The Monthly Hour
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Launched in 2018, The Monthly Hour is a podcast companion to The Monthly magazine, described as ‘an essential hour of news, culture and ideas that [offers] insight into each issue...
Karen Foxlee’s ‘Lenny’s Book of Everything’
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
'Foxlee’s writing is brimming with perfectly constructed moments that merge into a truly sensational, heart-wrenching read. This is the kind of book that makes a reader feel grateful it exists' ......
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
‘Books are the last frontier of freedom and wilderness for kids, for imagining dangerous things, for imagining craziness and worst-case scenarios’—Children's author Andy Griffiths on putting the anarchy back into...
Charts this week
Monday, 17 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 Pig the Grub Aaron Blabey Scholastic 3 WeirDo #11: Splashy Weird! Anh...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
‘Teens—maybe more than ever—need to be included in our cultural programming in thoughtful, and challenging ways ... they are integral to continuing the culture of writer’s festivals in this country’—Youth...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Sales Fiction Curtis Brown Australia has sold ANZ rights to The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (Felicity McLean) to HarperCollins; North American rights to Algonquin; UK (ex ANZ) rights to...
Podcast spotlight: Conversations with Writers
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Launched in 2017, Conversations With Writers (CWW) goes 'beyond the press tour Q&As to discuss how their experiences and beliefs shape who they are and the tales they tell'. Produced...
Consenting adults: Kate Cuthbert on the romance novel and representations of sexuality after #MeToo
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Escape Publishing managing editor Kate Cuthbert gave the keynote address at this year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference. This is an edited extract of her speech. I’d like to begin...
Stephen Giles’ ‘The Boy at the Keyhole’
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
'Commercial crime fiction fans would do well to pick up this gem of a slow-burning thriller but should be advised to go in with as little prior knowledge as possible...
Charts this week
Monday, 10 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 Pig the Grub Aaron Blabey Scholastic 3 Dog Man 5: Lord of...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Sales Fiction Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency has sold the television/film option to five novels in the ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series (Blanche d’Alpuget, Ventura) to Ironbark Media....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
'We are either ignoring, or describing, exploring or grappling on the contested ground of stolen lands, with unsettled matters. This is the fuel of creativity in the engine room. This...
Shaun Tan’s ‘Tales From the Inner City’
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
'These are metaphorical stories that will seep into your dreams and make you wake up longing to escape from the inner city, to be among the animals, only to remember...
Charts this week
Monday, 3 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 The 104-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 3 Jamie Cooks...
Bridging borders: Philippa Donovan on working between Australia, the UK and the US
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Literary consultant and book-to-film/TV scout Philippa Donovan has recently returned to Australia after working in the UK and the US. She shares her career journey. In 2002 I was broke...
Season’s readings: 2018 Christmas highlights
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Sarah Farquharson and Nathania Gilson round up this year’s Christmas highlights. Fiction as you like it This Christmas features new offerings from several bestselling Australian authors: Rosalie Ham returns with...
Tracking changes: Jacqueline Kent on ‘A Certain Style’
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Seventeen years after A Certain Style was first published, Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Australia’s first full-time book editor Beatrice Davis is being reissued for a new generation of publishing aficionados....
Mapping the future: The state of travel guidebooks
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang talks to Lonely Planet’s Chris Zeiher, APA Publications’ Agnieszka Mizak and former Dymocks category manager Ali Hammond about the state of the travel guidebook. Australians are travelling more...
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