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...
Stephanie Bishop’s ‘The Other Side of the World’
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Set in the 1960s, The Other Side of the World centres on couple Charlotte and Henry as they struggle with their new identities as a married couple, as parents and...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 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 Troll Mountain Matthew Reilly Macmillan...
She sells by the seashore: Meet Annie Grossman from Annie’s Books on Peregian
Thursday, 11 June 2015
‘I have lasted six-and-a-half years after opening in the thick of the GFC, and not just lasted, but grown. I have been accepted enthusiastically by my local community, and even...
Honey Brown’s ‘Six Degrees’
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Critically acclaimed author Honey Brown takes an unexpected turn from crime fiction with Six Degrees, an anthology that perfectly captures the essence of rural romance. Connected tenuously by a life-changing...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Troll Mountain Matthew Reilly Macmillan 2 Slow Cooker Central Paulene Christie ABC Books 3 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Doubleday...
On the virtual road: The pros and cons of blog tours
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Blog tours offer authors the opportunity to promote their books from the comfort of their homes, gaining greater exposure, if not necessarily sales. Andrea Hanke spoke to several children’s and YA authors...
Catherine De Saint Phalle’s ‘On Brunswick Ground’
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Catherine De Saint Phalle’s novel takes Jill Meagher’s rape and murder in 2012 as the basis for a meditation on grief. The story follows five women in the Melbourne suburb...
‘We Need Diverse Books’ in Australia
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
A US-led campaign to address the lack of diversity in children’s literature has sparked long-overdue conversations in Australia, writes Danielle Binks. She looks at what local publishers and industry conferences such...
Aaron Blabey’s ‘The Bad Guys: Episode 1’
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Award-winning picture-book author Aaron Blabey turns his hand to junior chapter books with hilarious effect. Mr Wolf, one of the original bad guys from fairy legend, is tired of being...
Consumer conflict: Publishers’ direct-to-consumer sales
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
While a growing number of Australian publishers are experimenting with direct-to-consumer sales, they remain wary of stepping on booksellers’ toes. Brad Jefferies spoke to both sides to see what programs...
Bill Neidjie and Mark Lang’s ‘Old Man’s Story’
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Old Man’s Story will appeal to many readers, particularly those interested in the environment and Indigenous culture. It gives the reader a wonderful sense of both the man and his...
Alex Ross on book design and the ABDA shortlist
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) will announce the winners of the 2015 Book Design Awards at a ceremony in Sydney on 22 May. Books+Publishing asked ABDA president and Penguin...
Antonia Hayes’ ‘Relativity’
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Antonia Hayes’ debut novel Relativity is magnetising. Its highly original plot artfully reveals the mysteries behind a family rupture, at the heart of which is adorable 12-year-old protagonist Ethan, a...
Kinokuniya’s Hiroshi Sogo on creating a ‘global niche’
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
‘A marketing buzzword in Japan at the moment is “consumption of experience” as opposed to products. We’ve noticed the growing importance in providing consumers with inspiring experience.’ Hiroshi Sogo, director...
Gideon Haigh’s ‘Certain Admissions’
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
One evening in December 1949, young Beth Williams accepted an invitation to dinner from John Bryan Kerr, a former radio star she originally met in her native Tasmania. Later that...
Andrew Fuller’s ‘Unlocking Your Child’s Genius’
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Don’t let the title mislead or deter you: ‘genius’ is perhaps too loaded a term; a better one is ‘potential’. The subtitle in fact is a bit more accurate: ‘How...
Book ideas for Mother’s Day
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Anthologies on motherhood and an abundance of baking books await this year’s Mother’s Day shoppers. Jackie Tang rounds up some of titles on offer here.
Going their own way: Publishers turn entrepreneur
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
After a successful career at the top of a large publishing house, where do you go? A few publishers have recently turned entrepreneur, utilising their skills and experience in the...
Matt Nable’s ‘Guilt’
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Switching between 1989 and 2009, Matt Nable’s book follows a group of teenagers in a beachside town and a single event that fractures their lives. Not unlike Christos Tsiolkas’ The...
Why small is good: Keiran Rogers on sales by small publishers
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
‘Forget the year of the horse; 2014 was the year of the small publisher. While the internationalisation of book sales and content has caused headaches for some of Australia’s big...
Monica Dux’s ‘Mothermorphosis’
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Australian women writers, including Kathy Lette, Kate Holden, Jo Case and Catherine Deveny, have contributed essays on their experiences of motherhood and birth to this collection. Edited by Monica Dux,...
On tour: Meet the author John Scalzi
Thursday, 9 April 2015
John Scalzi, author of Lock In and Redshirts (both Hachette), is travelling to Supernova in Melbourne and Swancon in Perth in April. Read Scalzi’s response to our On Tour questions, which cover The Secret...
Steve Toltz’s ‘Quicksand’
Thursday, 9 April 2015
This long-awaited follow-up to A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz’s 2008 Booker Prize-shortlisted debut, is similarly full of larrikin philosophers, artists and eccentrics hatching schemes and generally failing at...
My kind-of life: Oliver Mol on ‘Lion Attack!’
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Lion Attack! (Scribe, May), the first book from Australian writer Oliver Mol, co-winner of the inaugural Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, is part memoir and part make-believe. ‘When all...
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