The golden age of middle-grade
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
In the four years since Danielle Binks wrote about the under-representation of middle-grade literature, the genre has exploded. Now a middle-grade author herself, Binks follows up with a look at...
Magic man: Nicholas J Johnson on ‘Tricky Nick’
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Magician Nicholas J Johnson's debut book for children, Tricky Nick (Pan, September), won reviewer Annie Waters over in its first 20 pages. She spoke to the author about this embellished...
Sales down but community spirit up: Melbourne booksellers enter second lockdown
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
As Melbourne enters its second week of renewed lockdown, booksellers across the city are feeling disappointed yet buoyed by community support. On Thursday, 9 July Melbourne re-entered stage three restrictions...
Green dream: Ketan Joshi on ‘Windfall’
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future (NewSouth, September) is renewable energy industry insider Ketan Joshi's account of two decades’ worth of climate wars in Australia. 'The minutiae of climate science can...
Virtual events planned for Indigenous Literacy Day; ILF records ‘huge increase’ in support
Friday, 10 July 2020
Indigenous Literacy Day, to be held on Wednesday 2 September, will this year feature three virtual events celebrating language and literacy and focussing on voices and footage from the communities...
Sensitive subjects: The value of sensitivity reading
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Australian authors are increasingly employing sensitivity readers to ensure their representations of diverse characters are respectful and authentic. But who is regulating the practice, and what are the risks when...
Observational humour: Remy Lai on ‘Fly on the Wall’
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Remy Lai's middle-grade graphic novel Fly on the Wall (Walker, September) follows 12-year-old Henry Khoo, who goes on a solo international flight to Singapore without the knowledge of his overprotective family....
Bookselling during the ‘new normal’
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
The financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Australian booksellers are varied, but the sense that bookselling is about more than simply selling books has been highlighted, with booksellers finding...
Witnessing the future: Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Mother Fault’
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
The Mother Fault (S&S, September), Kate Mildenhall's genre-bending follow-up to her 2016 debut Skylarking (Black Inc.), portrays a 'spine-tingling vision of a future Australia—eerie in its potential realism' as seen...
Van Neerven awarded Civitella Ranieri Center Fellowship in Italy
Friday, 26 June 2020
Ellen van Neerven has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Center Fellowship in Italy. Van Neerven, the only Australian selected for the coming three years of the Fellowship, was awarded the...
Community cup: Rawah Arja on ‘The F Team’
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Rawah Arja is a writer and teacher from Punchbowl, Sydney. In her debut YA novel The F Team (Giramondo, September), which is set in her home suburb, Arja explores family,...
Career Path: Middle Grade Mavens
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Pamela Ueckerman and Julie Grasso are two self-described ‘author mums’ and the hosts of the podcast Middle Grade Mavens. They review children’s books, interview industry experts and discuss all things...
Every unhappy family: S L Lim on ‘Revenge’
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
S L Lim's second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts (Transit Lounge, September) follows teenage Yannie, who is bound by familial obligations to care for her parents instead of going...
New online Book Clubs Hub undertakes national survey
Friday, 12 June 2020
The organisers of Clunes Booktown Festival have established a free online platform for book clubs to connect and share information, and are undertaking a national survey of Australian book clubs....
Illustrating the truth: Charmaine Ledden-Lewis on ‘Found’
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Bundjalung artist Charmaine Ledden-Lewis was the recipient of the 2019 Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award, which offered a mentorship and the opportunity to illustrate Bruce Pascoe's first picture book. The result...
The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Two years after the Wheeler Centre established its The Next Chapter writers scheme, books by two of its inaugural fellows—Adam Thompson and Evelyn Araluen—have been acquired by the University of Queensland Press. As applications...
Behind closed doors: Victoria Hannan on ‘Kokomo’
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
Kokomo (Hachette, August), the debut novel from Melbourne writer Victoria Hannan, is an intergenerational saga that centres on Mina and her mother Elaine, and their neighbours the Chengs. Reviewer Ellen...
Into the unknown: Zana Fraillon on ‘The Lost Soul Atlas’
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
The Lost Soul Atlas (Lothian, July), Zana Fraillon's return to the middle-grade genre, is a dual-narrative fable that follows Twig's quest through the Afterlife and his memories of his former...
The magic of bricks-and-mortar
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
As Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed and stores begin to reopen, long-time sales rep Mandy Wildsmith argues that bricks-and-mortar bookshops are here to stay. Nineteenth-century Melbourne entrepreneur E W Cole was...
Youth literature programs move online
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
'In the rush to keep so many IRL programs and events alive it feels as if there was more thought placed on the translation to digital than on the programs’...
Tourist trap: Luke Horton on ‘The Fogging’
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Luke Horton's debut novel The Fogging (Scribe, July) follows two Australian academics as their relationship breaks down while on holiday in Bali. Reviewer David Little described The Fogging as 'a...
Online programs to get young people reading and writing at home
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Junior columnist Adele Walsh shares some of the best online literary programming for young people that has sprung up since the Covid-19 lockdown began. The realisation that we would all...
Making connections: Cath Moore on ‘Metal Fish, Falling Snow’
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Cath Moore's debut YA novel Metal Fish, Falling Snow (Text, July) is an 'astonishingly original, heartfelt and funny' exploration of self-acceptance, identity and belonging, says reviewer Jacqui Davies. She spoke to...
At your service: Nic Bottomley on creative bookselling
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Nic Bottomley is president of the UK Booksellers Association (BA) and the owner of Bath bookshop Mr B’s Emporium. He was to be the keynote speaker at the Australian Booksellers...
Browsing online: how has book buying changed during the pandemic?
Monday, 11 May 2020
Isolation, lockdown and the closure of physical bookstores have resulted in a massive spike in online retail. Books+Publishing investigates what book buying looks like during Covid-19 and asks whether the...
Under the covers: Tegan Bennett Daylight on ‘The Details’
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Tegan Bennett Daylight's new collection of essays The Details: On love, death and reading (Scribner, July) explores her own memories and experiences through the lens of her life in reading and...
US Independent booksellers rally together via Bookshop.org
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Bookshop.org has raised more than US$1.2 million (A$1.86m) for independent bookstores in the US. Could a similar model work here? Jinghua Qian reports. The book world has watched the rise...
Kavanagh, Callil among Copyright Agency-funded ‘emerging culture critics’
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Book critics Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil are among five ‘emerging culture critics’ appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers with its share of $150,000 in funding from the Copyright Agency...
Will Covid-19 permanently change the book industry?
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
As booksellers and publishers innovate their businesses in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, Books+Publishing's columnist Veronica Sullivan looks at which of their measures are only temporary, and which may be...
‘Don’t presume to know how people will respond to your situation’: Small publisher Stormbird Press on coping with adversity
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
The small environment-themed publishing house Stormbird Press lost everything during Australia's bushfires in January. Publisher Margi Prideaux tells Books+Publishing how her year became 'slower and less ambitious, but maybe better...
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