Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Cookbooks dominate the top of the bestsellers chart this week with Jamie’s 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and 4 Ingredients Kids (Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham, 4 Ingredients) in...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011
The Australian Booksellers Association held its annual conference in Melbourne during the weekend. The regular Book Buzz session was one of the highlights, showcasing the favourite books by booksellers and...

Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Did we forget to mention that the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher is in our hot little hands? Much goodness in this issue (starting with the macaron delights on the cover,...

Wednesday, 8 June 2011
This edited extract from a talk Text Publishing editor Mandy Brett delivered at the Wheeler Centre first appeared on Crikey's Culture Mulcher blog by W H Chong. You can also...

Friday, 20 May 2011
The following titles were recognised at this year’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards, presented on 19 May as part of the Sydney Writers Festival. Best Designed Book of the...

Friday, 15 April 2011
Publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall attended Australian Writers' Week in China in March. Here, he gives us a taste of three Chinese literary festivals that hosted Australian authors in 2011. English...

Monday, 4 April 2011
Imagine if Jesus had a rebellious, clever sister. Such is the world that author Leslie Cannold as created in her new novel The Book of Rachael (Text). Elisabeth Holdsworth's novel...

Wednesday, 23 February 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles in 'Best Designed Cover of the Year' category are: An Everyday Transience:...

Thursday, 27 January 2011
The shortlist for this year's Indie Book Award, for independent booksellers' favourite books of the previous year, has been announced. In the running are: Fiction Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe) Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe)...

Friday, 17 December 2010
Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions recalls the publishing life of his friend and mentor Ruth Park:  I was very saddened to hear that my dear friend Ruth Park has passed on. She...

Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Quite a few best books of 2010 lists have crossed our paths recently, so we thought we'd put them together in a list of lists! If there's a great list...

Friday, 26 November 2010
In the summer edition of Bookseller+Publisher Hannah Cartmel reviewed The Seer of Sevenwaters, book five in Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters series (Macmillan), and being such a fan of the series she...

Friday, 29 October 2010
Intrepid publishing assistant at Bookseller+Publisher Andrew Wrathall interviewed Shaun Micallef about his book Preincarnate (Hardie Grant) at the Australian Booksellers Association conference in Brisbane in July. As these things are...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Ex-Good News Week panellist Corinne Grant has put her pen to paper to describe a messy year of her life in her new book Lessons in Letting Go: Confessions of...

Monday, 11 October 2010
Women of Letters, an afternoon of letter reading and writing, came to Brisbane on Thursday 7 October and UQP's Kirsty Burow was there. Here, she pens a letter of her own:...

Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Topping the fastest movers chart this week is Akermanis: Open Season (Jason Akermanis & Guy Smart, Hardie Grant), the memoir and behind-the-scenes story of ex-AFL player Jason Akermanis.  At Home...

Friday, 1 October 2010
[caption id="attachment_2497" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Pamela Clarke"][/caption] Bookseller+Publisher publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall visited the AWW test kitchen and everyone in B+P HQ was lucky enough to taste the results. We approve....

Friday, 1 October 2010
There has been no movement at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steig...

Thursday, 23 September 2010
Andrea Hanke talks to Kate Holden about her new memoir The Romantic, a follow-up to In My Skin. I read that The Romantic originally started out as a novel. How...

Friday, 17 September 2010
[caption id="attachment_2402" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A Wordsmith's Dream: David Astle, Kate Burridge, Ursula Dubosarsky, Angela Meyer"][/caption] Melbourne Writers Festival celebrated its 25th birthday, in a year the organisation moved to a...

Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Black Inc. tells us they’re sending Mungo MacCallum's 2010 election book Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010 to print today, with delivery to bookstores scheduled for next...

Wednesday, 1 September 2010
With the film rights to her debut novel Addition just sold, and a new novel—Fall Girl—due in October, things are looking pretty good for Toni Jordan. And that’s before you...

Friday, 13 August 2010
Every time we say that we feel like Anna Wintour, and then we thank our lucky stars that instead of shoes, handbags and frocks, we are instead surrounded by manuscripts, advance...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The winners of this year's Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards were announced in Auckland on 22 July: Gerard Reid Award for Best Book, sponsored by Nielsen Book...

Wednesday, 28 July 2010
In this piece from our May/June 2010 issue, author, editor and lecturer Kalinda Ashton tells us how she got where she is today. 1. I go to a tiny community...