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Laura Elvery recommends 

Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine – a book that is completely fascinating, heartbreaking, measured and fair. There’s a pace and a clarity in Lech’s writing that is so refreshing.

BorrowBox: ‘User experience is everything’ 

Wednesday, 19 March 2025
In the lead-up to the 2025 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), Books+Publishing is in conversation with the event's major sponsors about the status of the industry, what excites them about the...

Laura Elvery on ‘Nightingale’ 

Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Brisbane-based writer Laura Elvery (Ordinary Matter) makes her novel debut with Nightingale (UQP, May), a fictional reimagining of the life of Florence Nightingale. Books+Publishing reviewer Kate Dunphy describes it as...

Australian Book Design Awards 2025 longlists announced

Thursday, 6 March 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in the first three categories, and the emerging...

Books+Publishing reviews gain support from Cultural Fund

books and publishing logo Wednesday, 5 March 2025
In 2025 for the first time, Books+Publishing’s pre-publication reviews program is being supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. This is the ideal time to revisit the reviews, their purpose,...

Publishers’ top picks: Australian fiction

Tuesday, 4 March 2025
A new publisher, a new literary agency and the Australian fiction on offer at LBF. Members of newest Australian literary agency on the block, a4 Literary – for which former...

Publishers’ picks: Australian nonfiction

Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Food and family, AI, and escaping a cult: The Australian nonfiction publishers have high hopes for at LBF Sandra Buol, rights and international sales manager at Australian independent Allen &...

Peninsula Records and Books opens on the Yorke Peninsula 

logo for peninsula records and books Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Peninsula Records and Books has opened a shopfront in Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, with a selection of books ‘exclusively focused on Australian authors, supporting both iconic...

OverDrive – ‘libraries can create new readers’

Wednesday, 19 February 2025
In the lead-up to the 2025 ABIAs, Books+Publishing is in conversation with the event's major sponsors about the status of the industry, what excites them about the future, and what they have...

Jessica Stanley recommends 

Tuesday, 18 February 2025
I’m reading a book about psychotherapy called The Talking Cure, published by Macmillan in 2019. One of the authors has a therapy podcast I’m obsessed with called Three Associating (I...

Jessica Stanley on ‘Consider Yourself Kissed’ 

Tuesday, 18 February 2025
London-based Australian writer Jessica Stanley (A Great Hope) returns with Consider Yourself Kissed (Text, April), a compelling novel about love, identity and modern motherhood. Books+Publishing reviewer Emily Westmoreland calls it...

Libraries ready to feel the love 

Friday, 14 February 2025
A global day of celebration, Library Lovers' Day (LLD) is celebrated every 14 February to recognise libraries, library workers, and library users. First celebrated in Australia in 2006 by the...

Christmas 2024: Sales up for most booksellers 

Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Christmas sales in 2024 were up on the previous year for the majority of booksellers surveyed by Books+Publishing in its annual Christmas survey, which this year received responses from representatives...

Fiona Hardy recommends 

The Midwatch Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Honestly, I think Australian fiction is the strongest out there. This country has amazing writers, and I’ll almost always try to pick out an Australian to read, not out of...

Fiona Hardy on ‘Unbury the Dead’ 

Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Melbourne writer, bookseller, and reviewer Fiona Hardy is known for her children’s books, including the CBCA Notable How to Make a Movie in 12 Days. Now, she makes her adult...

How international book markets performed in 2024 

Photograph of a glove in front of shelves of books Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Results were mixed for international book markets in 2024. While sales were slightly up in the United States and significantly in Brazil, they were down in France, slightly down in...

Diana Reid recommends 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
I was completely engrossed by Emily Maguire’s Rapture: it’s immersive, visceral and thrillingly original.

Diana Reid on ‘Signs of Damage’ 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Diana Reid follows her bestselling novels Love & Virtue and Seeing Other People with her highly anticipated third novel, Signs of Damage (March, Ultimo), which ‘will appeal to fans of...

Lucy Sussex recommends 

Cover of Restless Dolly Maunder Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville, which captures the female Australian voice and experience so well – just like Mary Fortune.

Megan Brown recommends 

Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Natasha Lester’s The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard. I really enjoyed it because it weaves fact and fiction together, but not in a forced way or in a way that tries...

A year of Australian audiobooks: 2025 preview 

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Audiobook lovers have plenty of local content due in 2025. Here, we round up the Australian titles highlighted by local audio publishers Bolinda and Wavesound. All our 2025 Books+Publishing preview feature articles...

 

 

 

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