Charts this week
Monday, 7 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 Make Me Lee Child Bantam 3 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
‘Most of all, I witnessed a fierce determination to nurture and support their kids through reading and education, something often missing from the news coverage about indigenous communities we see...
Season’s Readings: Christmas 2015 titles
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
While Christmas is still over three months away, many publishers have already released their key titles for the seasonal selling period. Jackie Tang unwraps the titles on offer here.
Kate Morton’s ‘The Lake House’
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Kate Morton’s fifth novel transports the reader back and forth between 1930s Cornwall and London in 2003. This epic tale opens with the disappearance of a child on the eve...
Charts this week
Monday, 31 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...
Picture this: Market growth for illustrated children’s nonfiction
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
A renewed interest in books as beautiful objects has boosted the market for illustrated children’s nonfiction. Carody Culver explores the ‘genre’s’ rise in popularity in her article here.
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...
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