Wrapped up in books: Christmas 2014 titles
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
With Christmas just over two months away, most publishers have already released their key titles for the Christmas selling period. Brad Jefferies rounds up some of the favourites.
John Marsden’s ‘South of Darkness’
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
South of Darkness is John Marsden’s first novel for an adult audience, set in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby Fletch has no memory of his parents. For as long as...
‘Books+Publishing’ 2014 rights survey results
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
For the 12th year in a row, Books+Publishing has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading. The survey looks at average income...
Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe & Mervyn Street’s ‘The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert’
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
This chapter book is a charming collection of stories by Jukuna Mona Chuguna, a storyteller from the great Sandy Desert. They have been interpreted and re-told by her friend and...
Top 10 political bios of the past decade
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
How will Julia Gillard’s memoir measure up against her predecessors’? Nielsen BookScan has put together a list of the bestselling political biographies and memoirs of the past 10 years. View...
Behind the scenes with Scholastic publisher and Snappyant co-director Ana Vivas
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablets. ‘In 2010, I downloaded an app on my iPhone called Peekaboo...
Susan Hawthorne’s ‘Bibliodiversity: A Manifesto for Independent Publishing’
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
In 2002 I attended the launch of Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity and later used it as an economics text. In that book Hawthorne put the case...
Helen Razer & Bernard Keane’s ‘A Short History of Stupid’
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
A Short History of Stupid is concerned with the rise of Stupidity in a world ruled by ‘fade-resistant individualism’, extreme paternalism, political condescension, conspicuous compassion and ‘the injurious yoga class...
Susannah Chambers on being an editor in New York
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Allen & Unwin’s Susannah Chambers spent three months in New York as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. As part of her report she examines the ‘notable differences’ between...
Erik Jensen’s ‘Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen’
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
When the Archibald Prize-winning artist Adam Cullen died in 2012 at the age of 46, the Australian art world was unsure who it had lost: a vulgar, naïf enfant terrible,...
Is social media worth the effort?
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
‘For a medium whose language is by and large casual and spontaneous, social media requires a surprising amount of time and effort for businesses. That said, when done right it...
Judith Rossell’s ‘Withering-by-Sea’
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Set in a glum Victorian seaside town, Judith Rossell has written an engaging and evocative mystery-adventure story. Eleven-year-old Stella Montgomery lives a dreary life with her three horrible aunts in...
Bray says: Philip Bray from Brays Books on 45 years of bookselling, and the future
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
‘You might expect an old bloke, fast approaching retirement, to reflect on “the good old days” and bemoan the “newfangled days”. No way!’ Find out what Philip Bray, co-owner of Brays Books...
Steve Kilbey’s ‘Something Quite Peculiar’
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
This memoir from one of Australia’s most gifted songwriters is a lively, anecdotal account of 40-plus years of musicianship. As the frontman of The Church—one of this country’s great rock...
Innovation, interrupted: Zoe Dattner on the trouble with digital publishing start-ups
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
‘I have always been drawn to the digital publishing start-up, and the endearingly mad people who initiate them,’ writes Zoe Dattner, co-founder of Sleepers Publishing and the Small Press Network....
Andrew Rule’s ‘Kerry Stokes’
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The cards have always been stacked against Kerry Stokes. Born John Patrick Alford, his mother gave him up for adoption. His name was scratched out by a judge’s pen on...
At your service: The growth in self-publishing support services
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
The boom in self-publishing has led to the establishment of a number of different ‘self-publishing support services’, reports Brad Jefferies. He spoke to several local operators, the Australian Society of Authors...
Claire Atkins’ ‘Nona & Me’
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Nona & Me is one of those wonderful books that takes you deeply into a rarely seen world and brings it vibrantly to life. Set in a remote part of the...
Ask Agatha: Readings launches an advice column
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Earlier this year Readings launched a book-advice column staffed by the ‘experienced and extremely wise bookseller Agatha’. Books+Publishing spoke to Agatha.
Peter Carey’s ‘Amnesia’
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
After recent novels set in England and Germany (The Chemistry of Tears) and the US (Parrot and Olivier in America), Peter Carey returns to Australia for the first time since...
App, app and away: Australian interactive ebooks and apps for children
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
At home and in the classroom, kids are swiping their way through a range of interactive ebooks and apps. Carody Culver spoke to Australian publishers about digital developments in children’s...
Helen Garner’s ‘This House of Grief’
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
On the evening of Father’s Day 2005, Robert Farquharson was driving his three children home to their mother—from whom he was separated—when his car left the road, travelled through a...
Gift ideas for Father’s Day
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
With Father’s Day just over a month away, Tim Coronel rounds up some bookish gift ideas for dads. Read his feature online here.
Lorelei Vashti’s ‘Dress, Memory’
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Dress, Memory is a memoir of Lorelei Vashti’s twenties, told with a focus on her impressive—and mostly vintage—dress collection. From her family home to university in Brisbane, to a fledgling...
The fun of the fair: Angela Crocombe on children’s and YA trends at BEA
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Readings bookseller Angela Crocombe visited BookExpo America earlier this year on a Readings Scholarship. She writes that realistic teen fiction, a new US school curriculum and digital subscription models were...
Catherine Harris’ ‘The Family Men’
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
A month after a post-season celebration, footballer Harry Furey still can’t remember what actually happened at the team’s men-only Sportsman’s Night—but he knows it was bad. Harry comes from an...
The 17th Storey: Maxine Beneba Clarke’s tribute to Matt Richell
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke has written a beautiful tribute to Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell for the Saturday Paper. ‘This is just the rough sketch one writer could muster, of...
Sonya Hartnett’s ‘Golden Boys’
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Golden Boys is not a departure for Sonya Hartnett, but it’s a continuation of her craft that shows why she is one of Australia’s best writers, for adults as well...
Avid Reader’s Steamy Queensland nights
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Bookseller and author Krissy Kneen has run the Good S-x Book Club at Avid Reader in Brisbane for the past two years. Once a month, between 10 and 15 people...
Paddy O’Reilly’s ‘The Wonders’
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
After a failed heart transplant, Leon is the world’s first recipient of an entirely mechanical heart, engineered and implanted in secret. He is recruited by a Texan entrepreneur to join...
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