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Books in the media this weekend, 10–11 September

Friday, 9 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo) New Australian Fiction 2022 (ed...

Moore establishes locum booksellers business

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Stacey Moore, owner and founder of independent bookshop Bookgrove in Ocean Grove, Victoria, has started another business, BreakAway Books locum booksellers. As part of the new business, Moore is offering...

Amplify Bookstore’s spring picks

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop’s top picks for spring. Spring has arrived, and we...

Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 September

Friday, 2 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Brother Alive (Zain Khalid, Ultimo) Empire, War, Tennis and Me (Peter...

Michelle Kadarusman on ‘Berani’

Tuesday, 30 August 2022
A powerful middle-grade story about animal activism, Berani (A&U, November), Michelle Kadarusman's latest novel, follows two young protagonists, Malia and Ari, who work together to rescue orangutan Ginger Juice. Our...

Bookshop tour: Lamplight Books, Auckland

Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Auckland's Lamplight Books is a newly established independent bookshop with a special focus on architecture and design books. Recently celebrating its first birthday, the shop has quickly become a staple...

Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 August

Friday, 26 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper August in Kabul (Andrew Quilty, MUP) The Nerves and their Endings...

Employment in the Australian publishing industry in 2022

Wednesday, 24 August 2022
In July 2022 Books+Publishing (B+P) surveyed more than 300 people about their employment in the Australian book industry, following up on similar surveys in 2013 and 2018. This report focuses on the data...

Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 August

Friday, 19 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Desire: A reckoning (Jessie Cole, Text) Marlo (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The...

Aus market up 4.1%, romance up 77% YTD

Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Australian book sales are up by 4.1% in value compared to this time last year, according to Nielsen BookData, which reports Australian book market sales of $544 million year to...

Passion for poetry: Sales in the wake of ‘Dropbear’

Tuesday, 16 August 2022
With sales of nearly 15,000 copies to date, Evelyn Araluen's 2022 Stella Prize winner Dropbear has defied the stereotype of poetry as a traditionally niche and low-selling genre. In our...

Betts bio debuts at number three

Monday, 15 August 2022
In bestsellers this week, the new Matthew Reilly is the highest new entry, while former AFL star Eddie Betts' The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (S&S) was Australia’s highest selling nonfiction...

Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 August

Friday, 12 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text) Provocations (Jeff Sparrow, NewSouth) Should We Fall...

Meg Foster on ‘Boundary Crossers’

Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Meg Foster is a historian of banditry, settler colonial and public history; her new book Boundary Crossers (NewSouth, November) explores the lives of four lesser-known Australian bushrangers. Described by reviewer...

Pitched at MIFF

Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Back in person at the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Books at MIFF event once again gave publishers and literary agents the opportunity to pitch books with screen potential. After...

Readings union members to consider industrial action

Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) members at Readings bookshop will consider industrial action, following on from a protest outside the independent chain’s Carlton store in Melbourne on 6...

Renée crime fiction debut sells to UK in two-book deal

Monday, 8 August 2022
Nadine Rubin Nathan at High Spot Literary has sold world English-language rights (ex NZ) to two crime novels, The Wild Card and Blood Matters (The Cuba Press), by Māori writer...

Books in the media this weekend, 6–7 August

Friday, 5 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Legitimate Sexpectations (Katrina Marson, Scribe) Mothercare (Lynne Tillman, Soft Skull Press)...

Untapped no more: heritage literature back in print

Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Launched in November 2020, Untapped: The Australian Literary Heritage Project began as a collaboration between authors, libraries and researchers to bring out-of-print Australian books back into circulation as ebooks available...