Behind the Mike: Mike Shuttleworth on his career in children’s literature
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. Read...
Small publisher spotlight: Christmas Press
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
NSW-based children’s publisher Christmas Press released its first titles in 2013. ‘We wanted to bring back the kinds of books we’d always loved as children—beautiful illustrated books featuring traditional tales...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Sales Fiction—Exisle has sold Italian and Czech rights to Heartfulness (Stephen McKenzie). Text has sold US rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to St Martin’s Press, via...
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s ‘The Hate Race’
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘Maxine Beneba Clarke’s storytelling in The Hate Race has a heft to it that is at once steeped in history, and also exquisitely and playfully modern; it is lyrical, sincere...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘It’s been hard for a decade or more to find much Australian poetry in bookshops, and a folk wisdom circulated that average sales for poetry volumes was miniscule’—UWA Publishing director...
Charts this week
Monday, 11 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 After You Jojo Moyes Penguin 2 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 3 The Girl on the Train...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘The richness of human possibility that is Ozlit’s stock in trade is an affront to the barren and denuded vocabulary both sides of politics employ’—incoming Picador publisher Geordie Williamson reflects...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Sales Fiction—Text has sold French rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to Laffont; Turkish rights to The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion) to Pegasus; French rights to The...
Dan Disney and Kit Kelen’s ‘Writing to the Wire’
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Dan Disney and Kit Kelen suggest poetry can “offer us new ways to understand mundane injustices [and] new ways to speak out”. Grand claims, perhaps, but ones borne out by...
Expounding and expanding: Wellington’s Unity Books
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Part of the Unity survival kit—it’ll be 49 Unity-years in September—is our determination that Unity continues as a viable forum for books, people and ideas. I know this sounds a...
Small publisher spotlight: Lacuna Publishing
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Launched in 2012, Sydney-based Lacuna Publishing publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction that ‘challenges the status quo, introduces new ideas, shares untold stories, or presents a fresh perspective’. Founder Linda Nix...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 The Girl on the Train...
Quote of the Week
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘A large part of our fiction list is translated, and if the pound stays at this low level it will have obviously further increase the costs involved in publishing fiction...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world French, Spanish and Italian rights to Hotel du Barry (Lesley Truffle) to HarperCollins France, HarperCollins Iberica and HarperCollins Italia, respectively; and Polish rights to Innocence...
Small publisher spotlight: Transportation Press
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Established in 2013, Tasmania-based Transportation Press publishes Tasmanian literature alongside work from around the world. ‘It began with the idea to publish a collection of new stories from Tasmania and...
Ryan O’Neill’s ‘Their Brilliant Careers’
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘We don’t see much formally innovative, experimental writing in Australian fiction—realist narratives tend to rule the roost. Also rare is genuinely fine comic writing. Enter then Ryan O’Neill, who, with...
Book-to-film adaptations coming in 2016
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
From the BFG to the story of a Ugandan chess prodigy, several book-to-film adaptations are due to be released in Australian cinemas in the second half of the year. Read...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 The Games James Patterson Century...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Wrong ’Un (Brad Hogg & Greg Growden) to Wavesound; world audio rights to Playing to Win: The Definitive Biography of...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. Read her article...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘It is a genuinely exciting opportunity for an Australian publisher and a first for a Chinese children’s publisher to acquire an interest in a foreign children’s publishing company’—New Frontier managing...
Ailsa Wild and Jeremy Barr’s ‘The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales’
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘How much history and science can a reader learn from a graphic novel? This new art-science offering from publisher Scale Free Network suggests quite a lot! The Invisible War is...
Small publisher spotlight: Scale Free Network
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network released its first book The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon in 2013. ‘We wanted to find a way to tell positive stories about...
Charts this week
Monday, 20 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 End of Watch Stephen King...
Small publisher spotlight: Acorn Press
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Founded in 1979, Melbourne-based Acorn Press is the ‘longest existing Christian publisher in Australia’. ‘Our first book People Caring for People by Ray Smith sold many thousands of copies and...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 16 June 2016
‘Many of the places where author and audience now interact has little to do with retail. It’s via online platforms, social media and writers’ festivals, as evidenced by the growth...
Fertile ground: Jane Harper on ‘The Dry’
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Jane Harper’s crime novel The Dry (Picador) debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart in its first week of publication. Harper, who previously won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Sales Fiction—Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold German rights to Line of Sight and Zero at the Bone (both David Whish-Wilson) to Suhrkamp Verlag. Scribe has sold North...
Briohny Doyle’s ‘The Island Will Sink’
Thursday, 16 June 2016
‘The Island Will Sink follows other recent Australian literary novels exploring the “cinematic uncertainty” of climate change, such as James Bradley’s Clade and Mireille Juchau’s The World Without Us, though...
Charts this week
Friday, 10 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Emperor's Revenge Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison Michael Joseph 3...
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