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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...