Charts this week
Monday, 24 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton Allen & Unwin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Ottolenghi Simple Yotam...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Sales Fiction Caroline Dawnay at United Agents sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada and ANZ) rights to The Beat of the Pendulum (Catherine Chidgey) to Lightning Books (see news). Children’s...
Podcast spotlight: The Monthly Hour
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Launched in 2018, The Monthly Hour is a podcast companion to The Monthly magazine, described as ‘an essential hour of news, culture and ideas that [offers] insight into each issue...
Karen Foxlee’s ‘Lenny’s Book of Everything’
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
'Foxlee’s writing is brimming with perfectly constructed moments that merge into a truly sensational, heart-wrenching read. This is the kind of book that makes a reader feel grateful it exists' ......
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
‘Books are the last frontier of freedom and wilderness for kids, for imagining dangerous things, for imagining craziness and worst-case scenarios’—Children's author Andy Griffiths on putting the anarchy back into...
Charts this week
Monday, 17 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 Pig the Grub Aaron Blabey Scholastic 3 WeirDo #11: Splashy Weird! Anh...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
‘Teens—maybe more than ever—need to be included in our cultural programming in thoughtful, and challenging ways ... they are integral to continuing the culture of writer’s festivals in this country’—Youth...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Sales Fiction Curtis Brown Australia has sold ANZ rights to The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (Felicity McLean) to HarperCollins; North American rights to Algonquin; UK (ex ANZ) rights to...
Podcast spotlight: Conversations with Writers
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Launched in 2017, Conversations With Writers (CWW) goes 'beyond the press tour Q&As to discuss how their experiences and beliefs shape who they are and the tales they tell'. Produced...
Consenting adults: Kate Cuthbert on the romance novel and representations of sexuality after #MeToo
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
Escape Publishing managing editor Kate Cuthbert gave the keynote address at this year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference. This is an edited extract of her speech. I’d like to begin...
Stephen Giles’ ‘The Boy at the Keyhole’
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
'Commercial crime fiction fans would do well to pick up this gem of a slow-burning thriller but should be advised to go in with as little prior knowledge as possible...
Charts this week
Monday, 10 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 Pig the Grub Aaron Blabey Scholastic 3 Dog Man 5: Lord of...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Sales Fiction Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency has sold the television/film option to five novels in the ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series (Blanche d’Alpuget, Ventura) to Ironbark Media....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
'We are either ignoring, or describing, exploring or grappling on the contested ground of stolen lands, with unsettled matters. This is the fuel of creativity in the engine room. This...
Shaun Tan’s ‘Tales From the Inner City’
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
'These are metaphorical stories that will seep into your dreams and make you wake up longing to escape from the inner city, to be among the animals, only to remember...
Charts this week
Monday, 3 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 The 104-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 3 Jamie Cooks...
Bridging borders: Philippa Donovan on working between Australia, the UK and the US
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Literary consultant and book-to-film/TV scout Philippa Donovan has recently returned to Australia after working in the UK and the US. She shares her career journey. In 2002 I was broke...
Season’s readings: 2018 Christmas highlights
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Sarah Farquharson and Nathania Gilson round up this year’s Christmas highlights. Fiction as you like it This Christmas features new offerings from several bestselling Australian authors: Rosalie Ham returns with...
Tracking changes: Jacqueline Kent on ‘A Certain Style’
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Seventeen years after A Certain Style was first published, Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Australia’s first full-time book editor Beatrice Davis is being reissued for a new generation of publishing aficionados....
Mapping the future: The state of travel guidebooks
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang talks to Lonely Planet’s Chris Zeiher, APA Publications’ Agnieszka Mizak and former Dymocks category manager Ali Hammond about the state of the travel guidebook. Australians are travelling more...
From Bega to the big city: Myoung Jae Yi discusses Book Expo 2018
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Candelo Books owner Myoung Jae Yi embarked on a trip to the 2018 Book Expo in New York City as part of a prize sponsored by Simon & Schuster Australia....
The Christmas wrap-up: 2018 children’s highlights
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang picks some highlights from publishers’ Christmas lists. Headliners Several high-profile authors have new titles out this Christmas, including national treasure Alison Lester who has three picture books: Tricky’s...
Stretching the truth: Jack Heath on ‘The Truth App’
Thursday, 30 August 2018
The Truth App (Scholastic, September) is the first book in YA author Jack Heath’s five-book junior-fiction series 'Liars', described by reviewer Heath Graham as a ‘non-stop action-adventure ride’ for readers who want ‘techno-thrillers...
Finding home: Fiona Wright on ‘The World Was Whole’
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
With her second essay collection The World Was Whole, Fiona Wright ‘continues to set the standard for the essay form in Australia’, writes reviewer Jo Case. She spoke to the author....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
‘Our jacket art often has social media in mind, as we often create animated gifs, profile icons, and moving images that expand on the book jacket art and are designed...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Sales Fiction Text has sold Italian rights to The Helpline (Katherine Collette) to Garzanti. Acquisitions Fiction UQP has acquired world rights to The Trespassers (Meg Mundell, see news). Nonfiction Allen...
Fiona Wright’s ‘The World Was Whole’
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
‘In this exquisite follow-on from her award-winning memoir-in-essays Small Acts of Disappearance, Fiona Wright continues to set the standard for the essay form in Australia.’ ... read Jo Case's full...
Getting the picture: Elizabeth Flux on the local comics industry
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
As librarians and booksellers report greater interest in graphic novels for children and teenagers, Elizabeth Flux explores the state of the local comics industry. When comics store All Star Comics opened...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 August 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 104-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Scrublands Chris...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
'It’s only once the book has done well elsewhere that some of the chains will take more copies ... It is as though the customer has to prove that there...
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