Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold Spanish and Catalan world rights to Getting Warmer and Bad Seed (Alan Carter) to Editorial Yulca, Barcelona. Nonfiction—Exisle has sold simplified Chinese rights to False...
Charts this week
Monday, 3 April 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 2 16th Seduction: A Women's Murder Club Thriller James Patterson & Maxine Paetro Century 3 First, We...
Book blogger spotlight: Happy Indulgence
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Happy Indulgence is a team of three book bloggers (two Australia-based, one US) specialising in YA titles. Blogger Jeann Wong, who writes about sci-fi and fantasy titles, said their site...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
‘More needs to be done to define the economy of writing—to make the real economy of the book visible by measuring and compensating for the hidden or social use of...
Funny business: Children’s books by comedians on the rise
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
With children’s books by comedians on the rise, Jackie Tang asks publishers and booksellers what’s driving the trend—and whether the books are living up to the hype. Read her article...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to Wild Lavender (Belinda Alexandra) to Dioptra Publishing S A. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold French rights to The Shortest History of Europe (John Hirst)...
Jessica Friedmann’s ‘Things That Helped’
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
‘Like Fiona Wright in her memoir about hunger, Small Acts of Disappearance, Friedmann doesn’t offer a conventional recovery narrative, but by experimenting with language and melding personal story and theory,...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 March 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 2 First, We Make the Beast Beautiful Sarah Wilson Macmillan 3 Big Little Lies: TV Tie-in...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
‘A lesson learnt from the messy events of the past two years is that the arts sector must rely on itself to lobby for the arts in difficult times’—University of...
Elizabeth Tan’s ‘Rubik’
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
‘Recalling the wit and social commentary of Julie Koh’s Portable Curiosities alongside the surreal connected-universe storytelling of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, Rubik is a shot in...
Behind the bestsellers: Stefen Brazulaitis on science-fiction and fantasy
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
In Books+Publishing’s new ‘Behind the Bestsellers’ series, Australian booksellers share their insights on the bigger picture behind what’s popular. In this first instalment, Stefen Brazulaitis of Stefen’s Books in Perth...
Charts this week
Monday, 20 March 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Grant Brinkworth & Dr Pennie Taylor Macmillan 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 3 First,...
Festival fever: Are there too many literary festivals in Australia?
Thursday, 16 March 2017
With the tally of Australian literary festivals reaching more than 90 in 2017, Jo Case takes a look at the role festivals play in an increasingly crowded literary events landscape....
Bernadette Brennan’s ‘A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work’
Thursday, 16 March 2017
‘Brennan’s depiction of Garner’s fearless approach to the very difficult subjects of The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation and This House of Grief is beautifully modulated and a real triumph.’...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 16 March 2017
‘It’s refreshing to see how books generally, and print books in particular, are still appealing to younger consumers, both male and female, despite so many other forms of entertainment and...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 16 March 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. imprint Nero has sold Czech rights to Destination Simple (Brooke McAlary) to Grada. Bonnier Publishing Australia has sold UK rights to The Tattooist (Heather Morris) to Bonnier...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet Grant Brinkworth & Dr Pennie Taylor Macmillan 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 3 Dangerous Games Danielle...
Small Australian presence at 2017 TIBE
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
‘For many years, Australia has enjoyed a reasonably strong presence at TIBE but after recent cuts to Australia Council and Austrade funding, this year’s stand was only the size of...
Gabrielle Tozer’s ‘Remind Me How This Ends’
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
‘Remind Me How This Ends is a complex and convincing novel that doesn’t pretend to have easy answers, but offers an authentic and sympathetic pair of characters who prove that...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
‘I wonder whether the current generation of female Australian novelists will have achieved canonical status in 20 or 50 years time, or whether the canon will still be dominated by...
Booksellers urged to ‘get uncomfortable’ at the 2017 Winter Institute
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker visited the American Booksellers Association’s 12th Winter Institute earlier this year and reports on a conference full of ‘hot-button issues’, in particular around ‘diversity;...
The missing beat: Benjamin Ludwig on ‘Ginny Moon’
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
One of the first titles from Harlequin Australia’s new HQ imprint is US author Benjamin Ludwig’s debut novel Ginny Moon (May), ‘a unique and compelling narrative that gets deep inside...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. imprint Nero has sold Slovak rights to Buddhism for Break-ups (Meshel Laurie) to Ikar, and Czech rights to Euromedia. HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to The Secret of Happy Children (Steve Biddulph) to...
Charts this week
Monday, 6 March 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 2 Big Little Lies (TV tie-in) Liane Moriarty Pan 3 Truly Madly Guilty...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
‘Independent booksellers are increasingly seeing their role as, necessarily, an active, educative, political one’—Monash University Publishing director Nathan Hollier reflects on the role of booksellers following the controversy over Milo...
Michael Sala’s ‘The Restorer’
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
‘Every relationship between the family members is frayed, and the tension is drawn out in small conflicts over the course of the year, with characters unable to forgive past actions...
Small publisher spotlight: Zabriskie Books
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Sydney-based Zabriskie Books ‘began as a small bookshop nestled in the back streets of Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach’. ‘Our goal is to produce a beautiful, engaging and varied nonfiction catalogue,’...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold German rights to Buddhism for Break-ups (Meshel Laurie) to Ullstein Germany; HarperCollins has sold Korean rights to The Secret of Happy Children and More Secrets...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 February 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 2 Big Little Lies (TV tie-in) Liane Moriarty Pan 3 Echoes in Death J D Robb...
Small Publisher Spotlight: Real Film and Publishing
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Established in 2012, Melbourne-based Real Film and Publishing specialises in ‘memoirs, biographies, family histories and legacy books’ in high-quality hardback. Only a few of the books are available commercially, as...
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