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Please note that due to Victoria’s AFL Grand Final public holiday on Friday, 23 October, the next ‘Daily’ newsletter will be published on Monday, 26 October.
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Former Picador Australia publisher Alex Craig has been appointed publisher of Ultimo Press. Craig spent 12 years at Pan Macmillan, including five as Picador publisher,... Read more |
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Andrew McLean is the winner of the inaugural Albert Ullin Award. The $10,000 biennial award, created with a bequest from the late The Little Book... Read more |
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Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for its 2020 Ampersand Prize for unpublished young adult and middle-grade fiction. The five shortlisted authors... Read more |
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Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has promoted Anthea Bariamis to a new position focusing on local audio titles, among a number of staff changes designed... Read more |
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In the Australian publishing landscape, the long lunch occupies a contentious space, provoking a mixture of envy, nostalgia, delight and judgement. Books+Publishing‘s columnist Veronica Sullivan... Read more |
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Publishing academics Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires conducted fieldwork at Frankfurt Buchmesse 2017–2019 to examine what makes a bestseller at the fair. The result was... Read more |
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Several publishers had big plans for significant birthdays this year, until Covid came along. In the third of a series of birthday profiles, we hear... Read more |
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After debuting at number one last week, All Our Shimmering Skies is spending its second week at the top of the Australian bestsellers chart, trailed by... Read more |
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This deeply unsettling book bravely attempts to interpret, chronicle and reflect on the nightmarish events of this year. While I relished the opportunity to try... Read more |
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Meg has taken in three strangers—Nerine and her two small daughters—in a bid to hide them from Nerine’s abusive ex-husband. The house is secluded, safe,... Read more |
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Political cartoonist First Dog on the Moon’s debut book for children is a delightfully absurd metatextual picture book/graphic novel hybrid starring a genius wombat inventor,... Read more |
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Prolific author Renée Treml says she wrote Let’s Go, Little Roo from experience with her own shy child, and Little Roo’s stubborn emotions and thought... Read more |
‘There’s no possible diverse, thriving, funded art sector without a materially just society that acts on issues like decommodifying housing and issuing a universal basic income. Diversity in the arts isn’t purely a curatorial project, it’s also a social justice project.’—Lauren Carroll Harris in Kill Your Darlings on Australia’s under-threat arts industry and reorienting the sector towards social justice.
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Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine.... Read more |
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Simon Clews has joined the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) as manager.
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The new committee for the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) is Hannah Janzen (president), Nina Heryanto (vice president), Philip Campbell (treasurer), Pooja Desai (secretary), Nada... Read more |
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Sallie Butler has joined Black Inc. as a publicist. Butler is currently publicist at the Wheeler Centre, and will join Black Inc. on 2 November.
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Katherine Ring has been promoted to the newly created position of junior editor at Simon & Schuster Australia in Sydney. Ring began the position on... Read more |
Anthea Bariamis has been promoted to the newly created position of commissioning editor audiobooks at Simon & Schuster Australia in Sydney. Bariamis began the position... Read more |
Michelle Swainson has been promoted to the newly created position of managing editor at Simon & Schuster Australia in Sydney. Swainson began the position on... Read more |
Caroline Valder has been promoted to the newly created position of operations director at Simon & Schuster Australia in Sydney. Valder began the position on... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is surveying ASA members and non-members on the impact of Covid-19 on the creative community. To access the surveys,... Read more |
The Second Son, a thrilling debut from Loraine Peck, will be released in February 2021. Supported by a high-profile promotional campaign, it’s set to be one of the biggest crime novels of the new year.
When Ivan Novak is shot dead putting out his garbage bins in Sydney’s west, his family wants revenge. Especially his father, a notorious crime boss. It’s a job for the second son, Ivan’s younger brother Johnny. But Johnny’s loyalty is torn and his beloved wife Amy is threatening to leave with their son Sasha. Johnny stakes everything on a heist, but can he afford to pay the price? And what price is paid by the women in this world where honour is everything?
In Peck’s action-packed debut, violence is its own language and love means breaking all the rules.
Praise for The Second Son:
‘A compelling story of fear, love, violence and—ultimately—hope, a modern-day Godfather.’ Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place
‘Outstanding…a gripping whodunnit. Original and straight from the heart.’ Kate London, author of Gallowstree Lane
Contact Stef Italia to request a bound proof or request a digital copy from NetGalley, and click here for more about The Second Son.
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