Creative with kids: Sandra Nobes from Allen & Unwin
Longtime freelancer Sandra Nobes was recently appointed in-house designer for children’s books at Allen & Unwin. She shares her career journey. This year I got my first ‘proper’ job in...
Art and the industry: Adrian Newstead on ‘The Dealer is the Devil’
The Dealer is the Devil (Brandl & Schlesinger, February) is Adrian Newstead’s guide to the Australian Indigenous art industry. He spoke to Clive Tilsley. Read Tilsley’s review here. Why is the...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Keen for 2014: A preview of forthcoming junior titles
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...
Wong joins Books Kinokuniya
Allen & Unwin marketing coordinator Valerie Wong has joined Books Kinokuniya in Sydney as marketing and events coordinator. Wong will be replaced at Allen & Unwin by Jessica McHenry.
Class act: Christos Tsiolkas on ‘Barracuda’
Christos Tsiolkas’ new novel Barracuda (A&U, November) is his ‘most personal and heartfelt book to date’, writes reviewer Martin Shaw. He spoke to the author. In Barracuda we get to...
New Adult: using it or losing it?
Australian publishers are starting to use the term in their marketing material, but what exactly is new adult, and how is it being used by booksellers? Cordelia Rice reports. In...
Webster retires from RMIT University; O’Shaughnessy appointed program director of grad dip in editing and publishing
Michael Webster has announced his retirement as program director of the graduate diploma in editing and publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne. ‘“Retired” is a dreadful word, but after a...
O’Shaughnessy to replace Webster at RMIT
Michael Webster will retire from his position as program director of the graduate diploma in editing and publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne in August. Webster will take up a...
New publishers join Murdoch Books
Allen & Unwin has continued to expand the Murdoch Books publishing team, with Diana Hill, Jane Morrow and Corinne Roberts joining Murdoch Books as publishers. A&U publishing director Sue Hines...
New publishers join Murdoch Books
Diana Hill, Jane Morrow and Corinne Roberts have joined Allen & Unwin as publishers for Murdoch Books. (See news.)
Tasmanian devils: Lenny Bartulin on ‘Infamy’
Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy (A&U, October) tells the story of William Burr, an adventurer on the trail of an escaped convict turned bushranger. Reviewer Tim Coronel called the novel a ‘rollicking,...
Bodies on the page: Michael Robotham on ‘If I Tell You I’ll Have to Kill You’
In Michael Robotham’s If I Tell You I’ll Have to Kill You (A&U) some of Australia’s best crime writers share their advice on writing, researching and reading. Reviewer Shane Strange...
No Vogel Award to be presented in 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that the judges of the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have decided not to present the award this year. This is the second time in the award’s...
A&U to pay damages to Corby family for use of photographs
Allen & Unwin has been ordered to pay members of Schapelle Corby’s family more than $50,000 in damages over the publication of a number of photographs in Sins of the Father by...
Handbury, Ashbridge launch online food community
Former Murdoch Books owner Matt Handbury and digital director Mark Ashbridge have partnered to launch a new website dedicated to food and cooking. Eatlove, which launched in October 2012, features...
War stories: Lyn White on the ‘Through My Eyes’ series
Lyn White is the editor of ‘Through My Eyes’, a new fiction series for readers aged 11-14 that explores war through the eyes of children. She spoke to Meredith Lewin....
Farmer joins Murdoch Books
Christine Farmer has joined Allen & Unwin in the role of publicity manager for Murdoch Books. Farmer, who previously worked for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand in the role of...
Farmer joins Murdoch Books
Christine Farmer has joined Allen & Unwin in the role of publicity manager for Murdoch Books. Farmer, previously publicity and communications director at HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand, started at...
A&U celebrates 25 years of children’s publishing
Allen & Unwin is celebrating 25 years of publishing books for children and young adults in 2013. A&U children’s books director Liz Bray told Books+Publishing that the publisher will mark...