Better Reading launches ‘crowd-sourced’ review platform
Better Reading has launched a new ‘crowd-sourced’ book review platform named Preview. Under the new program, publishers will be able to sponsor a title to be promoted to Better Reading’s...
Cool for kids: Publishers’ top children’s and YA titles for 2015
Publishers tell Hilary Simmons about their top children’s and YA titles for 2015.A&U publisher Erica Wagner believes Maureen McCarthy’s forthcoming YA novel Stay with Me (May) is particularly timely given...
Under the covers: Fiction top picks 2015
Hilary Simmons asks publishers to share their top fiction picks for 2015. (See nonfiction picks here.)Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes’ top pick for 2015 came from the slush pile. Hughes...
Under the covers: Nonfiction top picks 2015
Hilary Simmons asks publishers to share their top nonfiction picks for 2015. (See fiction picks here.)NewSouth publishing director Phillipa McGuinness says The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd (Quentin Beresford,...
Editor’s picks: Summer 2012/13
Andrea Hanke kicks off another reading year with new fiction from Kate Atkinson and Karen Russell, true stories of shopping and online dating, and some standout YA. Life after Jackson...
Lucky ’13: Publishers’ top picks for 2013
Local fiction Richard Flanagan’s first novel in five years is Random House publishing director Nikki Christer’s pick for 2013. She describes The Narrow Road to the Deep North (August) as...