Charts this week
Monday, 12 October 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom Millie Marotta Batsford 2 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 3 Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland Millie Marotta Batsford...
Fresh blood: Ben Sanders on ‘American Blood’
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
‘I’d actually never intended to write a novel set in the US but in 2013 St Martin’s Press in New York offered me a two-book contract, on the condition that...
Debra Adelaide’s ‘The Women’s Pages’
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
‘This fourth novel from well-known Australian writer Debra Adelaide pays homage to Wuthering Heights and combines a creative metatextual structure with contemplation about mothers’ … read Joanne Shiells’ full review...
Charts this week
Monday, 5 October 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland Millie Marotta Batsford 3 Golden Lion Wilbur Smith & Giles Kristian...
Charts this week
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette 3 Make Me Lee Child Bantam...
Light and shadow: Vikki Wakefield on ‘Inbetween Days’
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Vikki Wakefield’s latest YA novel Inbetween Days (Text) is about a high-school dropout who finds herself stagnating in a small town. ‘My stories usually take a darker turn around the halfway...
Michael Robotham’s ‘Life or Death’
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
‘Robotham piles on the tension without ever going over the top—and legions of readers should enjoy this superior example of the crime writer’s art’… read Max Oliver’s full review of...
Charts this week
Monday, 28 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette 3 Make Me Lee Child Bantam...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
‘I’m not saying for a moment that money will return to the Australia Council. What I’m saying is that … the exact nature and design of the [National Program for...
Campus calling: Karen Russell on her bookselling career
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Karen Russell is a career Co-op bookseller who spent a long time managing the Co-op Sunshine Coast store. ‘As the student population has grown, so too has the demand for us...
Drusilla Modjeska’s ‘Second Half First: A Memoir’
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Wise, vital and relayed in Modjeska’s restrained, sophisticated prose, it’s a major contribution to a literary lineage traceable to Virginia Woolf … read Gerard Elson’s full review here.
Charts this week
Monday, 21 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, 16 September 2015
‘It is a remarkably staid collection of voices, one that does not represent Australian letters in their diverse and exciting entirety’—Australian writer Jessica Freidman on the make-up of the Book...
Meet the Seizure Viva La Novella winners
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The three winning novellas in the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella competition were published last month. Books+Publishing spoke to the winners about their novellas and the editing process. Read our...
Todd Alexander’s ‘Tom Houghton’
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Tom Houghton is a classic first-person coming-of-age novel about a boy with huge dreams. 1986: 12-year-old Tom is a lonely and introverted child. He’s obsessed with Hollywood movie stars, and...
Charts this week
Monday, 14 September 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Make Me Lee Child Bantam 2 The 65-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 3 The Girl in the Spider's Web David Lagercrantz Hachette...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
‘This is an unprecedented and extreme action by the Film and Literature Board of Review. Banning books is not the New Zealand way’—Publishers Association of New Zealand president Melanie Laville-Moore...
Taking cover: Should publishers use the same cover design for different territories?
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
In Books+Publishing’s latest talkback column we ask four booksellers, should publishers use the same cover design for different territories where possible? Read their responses here.
Magda Szubanski’s ‘Reckoning: A Memoir’
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Magda Szubanski is one of Australia’s best-known comedians but what’s less known is her interesting family history. Her father, who fought in the Polish resistance, lived with the scars of...
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...
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