The rights approach: Australians on rights sales in Italy
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
This year the Australian Publishers Association is running a series of rights networking events to help Australian publishers connect with overseas markets. In the lead-up to its event with Italy,...
Andrew Paterson on ‘Rainfish’
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Andrew Paterson's debut middle-grade novel Rainfish (Text, July) won the 2020 Text Prize. Set in Far North Queensland, the book follows narrator Aaron, who breaks the law to impress an...
50 years of publishing in Australia: Hachette looks back
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Hodder & Stoughton was incorporated in Australia on 2 April 1971. On this, the 50th anniversary of the company’s permanent roots in Australia, Hachette Australia & New Zealand CEO Louise...
June reviews round-up
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Winter 2021 yields new fiction from seasoned authors, including Briohny Doyle’s third book Echolalia, Kate Liston-Mills’s Dear Ibis, the follow-up to her 2017 collection The Waterfowl are Drunk! and Michael...
Sophie Overett on ‘The Rabbits’
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Sophie Overett's debut novel The Rabbits (Vintage, July), winner the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize, is a magic realist family saga centred around Delia Rabbit, a mother dealing with trauma from her...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In Iowa...
Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The historical YA novel Echo in the Memory (Walker, June) took author Cameron Nunn 10 years and a PhD in the history of child convicts to write. The book features...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Meg Whelan
Monday, 26 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Isabelle O’Brien
Friday, 23 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the...
Chrissy Brincat on interning at UQP
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Each year Vision Australia runs a 12-month graduate program for graduates who are blind or who have low vision, with a component of the program involving a three-month external placement....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Bianca Jafari
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Lisa Emanuel's 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to involvement with an oppressive and...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Stef Italia
Friday, 16 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the...
Meet literary agent Jacinta di Mase
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
As the pandemic keeps rights sellers from meeting face-to-face, Books+Publishing is shining a regular spotlight on the work of Australian rights agents. Today, we hear from Jacinta di Mase, the founder and lead agent...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Pooja Desai
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In...
May reviews round-up
Thursday, 8 April 2021
In May Anita Heiss will release her latest work of historical fiction, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams), which reviewer Joanne Shiells loved and said deserves to be read by all...
The rights approach: Australians on rights sales and acquisitions in Latin America
Thursday, 8 April 2021
This year the Australian Publishers Association is running a series of rights networking events to help Australian publishers connect with overseas markets. In the lead-up to its event with Latin...
Alice Pung on ‘One Hundred Days’
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
One Hundred Days (Black Inc., June), Alice Pung's first novel for adults, is described as a fractured fairytale about 16-year-old Karuna, who is locked in her family's housing commission flat...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Kraków’s Massolit Books
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. 'Massolit is...
Shirley Marr on ‘A Glasshouse of Stars’
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Perth author Shirley Marr's fourth children's book, A Glasshouse of Stars (Puffin, May), is a semi-autobiographical middle-grade novel inspired by Marr's experiences growing up as a first-generation Chinese–Australian migrant. Reviewer...
Meet literary agent Alex Adsett
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
As the pandemic keeps rights sellers from meeting face-to-face, Books+Publishing is shining a regular spotlight on the work of Australian rights agents. Today, we hear from Alex Adsett, a literary agent representing authors across...
Anita Heiss on ‘Bila Yarrudangga-langdhuray’
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Anita Heiss's new historical novel Bila Yarrudanggalangdhuray (S&S, May), the first Australian commercial fiction release to feature the title on the cover solely in an Aboriginal language, follows protagonist Wagadhaany,...
Lift-off: Non-profit Parachute Press launches in regional Vic
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Parachute Press is a new children’s publisher based in Castlemaine, regional Victoria. Co-founded by award-winning author Martine Murray and artist, ceramicist and musician Anna Read, Parachute Press is described by...
New talent: Australian publishers, agents nominate their top new authors
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
The first issue for 2021 of Books+Publishing’s sister publication Think Australian is shining a spotlight on debut and early-career authors. In this preview, Think Australian asked Australian publishers and literary...
Jacqueline Bublitz on ‘Before You Knew My Name’
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Jacqueline Bublitz's debut novel Before You Knew My Name (A&U, May) takes the crime fiction trope of a jogger discovering a dead body and turns it on its head. Bublitz's novel...
International outlook: Translated books in the Australian market
Thursday, 11 March 2021
In Australia, the reading public's appetite for translated books has been growing steadily over the years. With international travel at a standstill, now more than ever there appears to be...
Krissy Kneen on ‘The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen’
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
In Krissy Kneen's new memoir The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen (Text, May), the death of her beloved grandmother is the catalyst for the excavation of long-buried family history, taking Kneen—and the...
April reviews round-up
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
With Mother's Day just around the corner, April is chock full of great literary book club titles. Jacqueline Maley's debut novel The Truth About Her, about a journalist juggling motherhood,...
Katherine Rajwar on interning at Hachette
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
The annual paid Hachette Australia summer internship was established in 2020 as part of a suite of activities the company has created to attract new talent into book publishing. Katherine...
How international book markets performed in 2020
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Through the PubMagNet initiative—a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world—representatives from publications in the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil and China have shared...
