Book Review: ‘Rocks in the Belly’ (Jon Bauer, Scribe)
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Anybody who reads this book and isn’t instantly a fan probably wasn’t paying close enough attention. Rocks in the Belly is both a masterpiece and a very challenging piece of writing—both to...
Book buzz: the ones to watch
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
The Australian Booksellers Association held its annual conference in sunny Brisbane last weekend. Cue a whole load of book talk. Among the highlights was the now regular 'book buzz' session,...
Learning to balance: Nicholas Carr’s ‘The Shallows’ (Atlantic)
Friday, 9 July 2010
Nicholas Carr lays out his non-Luddite credentials early on in The Shallows—his critical look at ‘how the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember’ (Atlantic, August). In...
All liquored up …
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
No, not us, our cover. The new issue (August) has landed and the cover is a celebration of, well, ouzo, but also Food from Many Greek Kitchens, the new book...
Dinner and deadlines: the 2010 Miles Franklin award ceremony
Thursday, 24 June 2010
This week I was lucky enough to attend my first Miles Franklin Award ceremony, and it was rather exciting. Apparently it hasn’t always been so. I was surprised to read...
Fancy Goods Questionnaire: Tim Coronel
Friday, 18 June 2010
Bookseller+Publisher magazine publisher Tim Coronel has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Australian book industry, a 1969 Daimler and a thing for watches (no, really). He also has a lot of...
BOOK REVIEW: Wordlines: Contemporary Australian writing (selected by Hilary McPhee, Five Mile Press)
Friday, 11 June 2010
Hilary McPhee, as many will know, is one of Australia’s most respected publishing figures. Thus, my reaction to hearing that she has created a collection of Australian short fiction was...
The new issue has landed!
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Well, the shiny new issue of Bookseller+Publisher has landed, with a big fat 20 on the cover—that'd be Allen & Unwin, who are celebrating 20 years of independent publishing this...
Fancy Goods questionnaire: Andrew Wrathall
Friday, 4 June 2010
Publishing assistant at Bookseller+Publisher Andrew Wrathall resisted telling us about the books he loves for some time, but we squeezed it out of him and this is what he said....
Emerging Writers Festival: The story so far
Friday, 28 May 2010
[caption id="attachment_1562" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Lifted Brow at Page Parlour"][/caption] The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) came to life on Friday night in Melbourne in the form of The First Word,...
Bestsellers this week
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Four books in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead and From Dead to Worse (Hachette), have appeared in the fastest movers chart, behind The...
And …
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
I’m an absolute Twit. There, I’ve said it. I’m referring, of course, to the social networking phenomenon of Twitter, where (it could be argued) I’m spending way too much of...
Australian Book Design Awards: winners announced
Friday, 21 May 2010
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards were announced in a special event in Sydney last night. The winning books were: Best designed cover Best designed book...
Excuse us while we take a moment…
Thursday, 20 May 2010
We’re pretty snowed under here at Bookseller+Publisher headquarters, putting the finishing touches on the July issue after getting out this week’s bumper issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter. Last week,...
Thirty-seven territories and counting: ‘Beautiful Malice’ launched in Sydney
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Rebecca James’ Beautiful Malice—one of the most highly anticipated teen novels of the year—was launched in Leichhardt, Sydney, on Monday night. Despite the large turnout, this was a relaxed and...
Google Editions: about ‘surfacing books’ not replacing bookstores, says Palma
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
The article below originally appeared in our Weekly Book Newsletter, back in February, but with the recent mainstream coverage of the fact Google is planning to sell ebooks, we thought it might...
Most mentioned books this week
Monday, 3 May 2010
Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel Life of Pi (Canongate) has just published a new book Beatrice and Virgil (Text), which is receiving mixed reviews...
Small(er) publishers to the fore: a surprise Australian Publishers Association election result
Monday, 3 May 2010
Annual general meetings are usually pretty dreary affairs: financial reports are read out, there is lots of proposing and seconding on the previous year's minutes and the like, and then...
Fancy Goods questionnaire: new Bookseller+Publisher editor Andrea Hanke
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Andrea Hanke first worked at Bookseller+Publisher as a very over-qualified editorial assistant back in 2006. After a couple of years in London she has returned to the fold as editor...
Books, history, dress-ups: dare we say the Clunes ‘Back to Booktown’ fair has it all?
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
To quote our Weekly Book Newsletter (circa May 2009) at last year's annual Clunes 'Back to Booktown' fair: Rose Michael and her Arcade Publications colleague Dale Campisi (pictured) garnered local...
Most mentioned books this week
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
As the nation stopped to honour our Anzac soldiers this weekend, the book world was abuzz with new Anzac titles. The most mentioned chart usually features a few war-related titles...
Miller and the Miles Franklin: Do we have too many awards?
Friday, 23 April 2010
From today's Crikey newsletter, former Bookseller+Publisher editor and literary blogger Angela Meyer writes: Are there too many literary awards in Australia, and is our oldest one 'slipping away'? If an Australian...
Emerging Writers Festival: program launched
Friday, 23 April 2010
The program for the 7th Emerging Writers Festival (21 to 30 May, 2010) was launched at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne last night. New director Lisa Dempster said it would...
Bestsellers this week
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Since becoming Australia’s first MasterChef Julie Goodwin has been writing and testing recipes for her new cookbook Our Family Table (Random House), which has gained the top spot in the...
Literary lunching in Mildura
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
As we noted in the March issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine, writers festivals are a big deal not only in the big cities but also in regional centres. Mildura, in north-western...
Books at Supanova
Monday, 19 April 2010
[caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Scott Sigler author of 'Ancestor' (Hachette)"][/caption] Supanova, the 'pop culture expo' held in Melbourne over the weekend, drew thousands of science-fiction, fantasy and comic fans, and...
Most mentioned this week
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Michael Robotham's Bleed for Me (Sphere) took out the most mentions in Media Extra this week with five citings. Kate Howarth's Ten Hail Marys (UQP) is a local story in...
BOOK REVIEW: Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing No. 1 (ed by Karen Andrews, Miscellaneous Press)
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Some would not agree that some of the best writing appears in blogs. Editor Karen Andrews throws down the gauntlet by introducing her anthology as ‘an experiment to see how...
Bestsellers
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
There’s a storm brewing in South Dakota and also on this weeks bestseller charts as Lee Child’s thriller 61 Hours (Bantam) blasts in to number one ahead of Stieg Larsson's...
Interview: Maggie Joel on ‘The Second-Last Woman in England’ (Pier 9)
Monday, 29 March 2010
Maggie Joel has followed up her first novel The Past and Other Lies with The Second-Last Woman in England (Pier 9, April), which received five stars in the April issue of...
