Tony Birch’s ‘Ghost River’
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
In a story that takes in murderous crims, a band of garrulous vagrants and a hazily defined Pentecostalist-style cult, Ghost River engages and frustrates in equal measure … read Gerard...
Charts this week
Monday, 24 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 The Little Book of Calm Colouring David Sinden & Victoria Kay Macmillan 3 The Mindfulness...
Identity crisis? Andrew Nette on the state of Australian crime fiction
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
‘British crime has a strong tradition of the mystery. American crime also has a strong noir tradition that still exists today and is constantly being re-invented. And there has been...
Susan Johnson’s ‘The Landing’
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
The Landing is a boutique Queensland suburb full of summer houses for the financially comfortable with all their associated dramas. After his wife leaves him for a woman, Jonathan Lott...
Charts this week
Monday, 17 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom Millie Marotta Batsford 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee...
Gift ideas for Father’s Day
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
With Father’s Day less than a month away, Tim Coronel rounds up some bookish gift ideas for dads. Read his feature online here.
Vikki Wakefield’s ‘Inbetween Days’
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
The small-town setting of Mobius captures and amplifies the isolation of adolescence. It is the perfect backdrop for Inbetween Days, a story about the bruises left on our hearts by...
Charts this week
Monday, 10 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 2 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann 3 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom Millie...
Video created the publishing star
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
A number of high-profile vloggers have recently announced book deals. Danielle Binks finds out whether the trend is taking off in Australia. Read her article here.
Shirley Barrett’s ‘Rush Oh!’
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
Screenwriter and director Shirley Barrett has mixed fact and fiction to tell the story of the whaling community of Eden in New South Wales in the early years of the...
Charts this week
Monday, 3 August 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 The Little Book of Calm...
Publishing job ads in decline
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The publishing industry has seen a steady drop in job ads advertising in the Weekly Book Newsletter over the past few years, with publishers attributing the decline to lower staff...
Charlotte Wood’s ‘The Natural Way of Things’
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The latest novel from the author of Animal People and Love and Hunger is a powerful story of misogyny and corporate control taken to disturbing extremes … read Portia Lindsay’s...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 July 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee William Heinemann 2 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 3 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons...
David M Henley on the popularity of fantasy vs sci-fi
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Why is fantasy trumping science-fiction on the shelves? Sci-fi author David M Henley believes ‘technobabble, moralising and a high chance of crapness’ may be to blame. Read his opinion piece here.
Gail Jones’ ‘A Guide to Berlin’
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Gail Jones’ sixth novel, A Guide to Berlin, is named after a short story by Vladimir Nabokov and offers more than a nod to his work. During a harsh winter...
Charts this week
Monday, 20 July 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 Fabulous Flowers Michael O'Mara 4 Decorative Designs...
Return to Deltora: Emily Rodda on ‘Shadows of the Master’
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Emily Rodda returns to the world of Deltora with a new heroine in Shadows of the Master (Scholastic, August), the first book of her new series. Read an interview with the...
Peter Doherty’s ‘The Knowledge Wars’
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
‘How do we know anything?’ asks Peter Doherty at the start of his lucid and entertaining new book The Knowledge Wars. Doherty guides the reader to a satisfying answer to...
Charts this week
Monday, 13 July 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 Decorative Designs Michael O'Mara 4 Fabulous Flowers...
Behind the clichés: Honey Brown on ‘Six Degrees’
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Honey Brown’s short-story collection Six Degrees (Ventura Press, August) explores romance and sex in rural Australia, and is a departure from the author’s previous books in terms of genre and length....
Craig Munro’s ‘Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing’
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Former University of Queensland (UQP) publishing director Craig Munro’s memoir is a nostalgic retelling of his long and distinguished career in Australian publishing, which coincided with a boom in the...
Charts this week
Monday, 6 July 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 Enchanted Forest Johanna Basford Laurence King Publishing...
Budding romance: Lili Wilkinson on ‘Green Valentine’
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Lili Wilkinson’s latest YA novel Green Valentine (A&U) is a romantic comedy with an environmental twist, that explores ‘the cliché that popular girls are always mean girls’. Read her interview with reviewer Sarah...
Emma Viskic’s Resurrection Bay
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Caleb Zelic’s deafness has made him an astute observer of the minute details of world around him, and of people in particular, a skill he has parlayed into a career...
Charts this week
Monday, 29 June 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Grey E. L. James Arrow Books 2 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 3 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins...
Sonja Dechian’s ‘An Astronaut’s Life’
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
An Astronaut’s Life is the debut short-story collection from ABC Radio producer and editor Sonja Dechian. Her book circles some big themes, namely our changing climate and ecological destruction …...
Charts this week
Monday, 22 June 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Mindfulness Colouring Book Emma Farrarons Boxtree 2 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Doubleday 3 Finders Keepers Stephen King Hachette...
Balancing at the precipice: Antonia Hayes on ‘Relativity’
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Author Antonia Hayes has been a bookseller, book publicist and co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival. Her debut novel Relativity (Viking) is a family drama interwoven with cosmology and quantum...
David and Goliath: Jane Curry on distribution challenges for small publishers
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Jane Curry Publishing recently rebranded as Ventura Press and partnered with Simon & Schuster Australia for sales and distribution. Managing director Jane Curry explains how small publishers can benefit from an...
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