Tinsel time: 2025 biography and memoir
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
From sports stars to media mavens, performers to podcasters, Books+Publishing pulls together titles about lives less-ordinary from publishers' 2025 gifting season recommendations. Well-known women Among the highlights from publishers for...
Books on the Rail’s Ali and Michelle in conversation
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Books on the Rail is an Australian initiative that places books on local public transport services – or, as co-founders Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus put it, ‘turns Australia's trains...
Tinsel Time 2025: Young readers
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
Share the joy of reading under the tree (and in stockings, and for Secret Santas and for teacher gifts!). Junior fiction There’s hilarity and adventure to spare for junior readers...
Tinsel time: 2025 nonfiction
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
History, homes and health; art, essays and philosophy – Books+Publishing takes a walk through the nonfiction offerings publishers are highlighting this holiday season. First Nations wit, wisdom and writing Miles...
UWAP at 90 years: ‘Our values will remain steadfast’
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
In 2025, University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) celebrates its 90th anniversary. Books+Publishing spoke to communications officer Lauren Pratt about the history, the present and the future of the press....
Sarah Brill on ‘Catch’
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sydney-based author Sarah Brill's Catch (A&U Children’s, October) is a ‘heartfelt and quietly thrilling coming-of-age novel’ about a 16-year-old who discovers she can catch people falling from the sky. Brill...
Tinsel time: 2025 fiction and poetry
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
From literary legends to debut writers, poetry collections to crime, Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local adult fiction and poetry titles releasing in time for Christmas 2025. A collection of...
Tinsel time: 2025 food and wine titles
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Food decisions often become a summer saga during the festive season! To help with mealtime and gifting time, Books+Publishing rounds up the local food and wine titles releasing in time...
Black Inc. 25 years on: ‘From inside the local scene’
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Based in Melbourne on land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, Black Inc. was founded in the year 2000 and is an independent publisher of nonfiction and...
Zoë Rankin on ‘The Vanishing Place’
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Zoë Rankin’s ‘near-flawless’ debut, The Vanishing Place (Moa Press, September), is described by Books+Publishing reviewer Tara Lee as ‘a sad girl novel wrapped in a family saga and delivered as...
‘It’s About More Than Just Funding’: A New Approach on what else governments can do
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Australian arts and culture think tank A New Approach (ANA) has released a report titled ‘Government, Culture and Creativity: It’s About More Than Just Funding’. This is the 15th report...
A tough sell: Fighting for space on the path to publication
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Dr Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a writer, editor and academic based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. She’s the author of two novels, Burn...
Telling stories, telling ourselves stories: Recapping BookPeople 2025
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
The annual BookPeople conference ran in Brisbane 14–16 June. This conference includes a program of panels and discussions, a trade exhibition, and a dinner and awards night for the Australian...
The Berry Agency: ‘The time was finally right’
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
In the current publishing climate, traditionally published authors are expected to take on a large proportion of the publicity and marketing of their books, while self-published authors take on all...
Editorial Letter: Epitexts, First Nations representation, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
As with all similar publications, Books+Publishing has a set of editorial guidelines and a style manual, designed to ground us in our core purpose and the needs of our audience....
ABIA winner profile: Jeanmarie Morosin
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards in early May, Books+Publishing reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their career, their challenges, their goals and what...
Amelia Mellor on ‘The Wicked Ship’
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Melbourne-based author Amelia Mellor’s new middle-grade adventure series, Oceanforged, launches with The Wicked Ship (Affirm, August), a 'rollicking mix of Treasure Island and The Sword in the Stone with a...
What’s so special about special editions?
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
The book as a collectible item seems to wax and wane as a trend. On noticing a distinct waxing interest lately, Books+Publishing (B+P) decided to reach out to some industry...
Olivia De Zilva on ‘Plastic Budgie’
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Tarndanya/Adelaide-based writer Olivia De Zilva’s debut, Plastic Budgie (Pink Shorts Press, August), is described as a ‘sharply funny, sad and sentimental reflection on the people, places and cultural forces that...
On alchemy: B+P reflects on Melbourne Writers Festival 2025
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
This year, several members of the B+P team attended the Melbourne Writers Festival. We asked publishing director Kate Cuthbert and managing editor Ange Glindemann to share their experience. ‘Alchemy’ –...
The quiet revolution of bookshop succession
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
In the independent bookstores of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, a new generation of book lovers is taking the reins. Incoming owners are learning that bookstores are more than just...
Who gets published in Aotearoa? Three key findings
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
A recent Booksellers NZ newsletter shared independent publisher Damien Levi’s analysis of 2023 publishing data on gender and ethnicity in Aotearoa. This analysis follows on from earlier work by writer...
A First Nations writer’s fellowship was withdrawn by Queensland’s government. What’s going on?
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Jo Caust is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communication, where she is also an honorary principal fellow. She is a founder-editor...
Emma Pei Yin on ‘When Sleeping Women Wake’
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Canberra-based, British-born Hong Kong-Chinese writer and editor Emma Pei Yin’s debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake (Hachette, July), is set in 1940s Hong Kong and follows three women whose lives...
Enamoured Books opens in Auckland
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Enamoured Books, Aotearoa New Zealand's first dedicated romance bookshop, opened in Auckland in May of 2025. Founder Ruby Wallace spoke with Books+Publishing about her vision for the shop. Why did you...
The 2025 Visiting International Publishers: Why they’re coming and what they hope to find
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
The 2025 Creative Australia Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) Program is running in Sydney from 19–23 May, coinciding with the Sydney Writers' Festival. The program invites international publishers, scouts and literary...
Publishing industry hopeful following Federal Election
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
With the landmark results of the 3 May federal election, questions have arisen about the future of the literary sector. Following the Books Create Australia election campaign, B+P reached out to the Australian Publishers...
Jasmin McGaughey on ‘Moonlight and Dust’
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American author and editor, and the writer behind Ash Barty’s Little Ash series. Her new young adult novel, Moonlight and Dust...
Creative Australia’s VIPs – a very important program
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Creative Australia’s Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program began in 1998, and has since welcomed 307 international guests to Australia from 30 countries. Books+Publishing publishing director Kate Cuthbert spoke with Creative...
Who’s eating publishers’ lunch? The rising costs and shrinking margins of Australian books
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Alice Grundy is an editor, publisher, researcher and teacher. She has worked on both sides of the publishing industry – holding various trade publishing roles over a 15-year period, as well...
