Neighbourhood watch: Strengthening ties between Oz and NZ publishing
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Why are there not stronger ties between the Australian and New Zealand publishing scenes? asks Jo Case. While there are key differences between Australia and New Zealand (particularly our relationship...
Remaking history: Kate Mildenhall on ‘Skylarking’
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Kate Mildenhall’s Skylarking (Black Inc., August) is a historical novel about an intense female friendship. Reviewer Angela Andrewes spoke to the author. Skylarking is based on historical events. What drew...
Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s winter reading list
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Girls, Roxane Gay and Neil Gaiman. Andrea Hanke’s editor’s picks are brought to you by the letter G. In an essay in the Paris Review about the inspiration for...
Rethinking business: The market for business books
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Books on leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation are attracting new readers to the business books category, while a strong backlist remains essential to sales, writes Andrea Hanke. For the past two...
Retail rewards: An interview with Len Vlahos
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
US book-industry insider Len Vlahos will deliver the keynote at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference. Vlahos is the new owner of Denver bookstore chain Tattered Cover, former executive director...
Expounding and expanding: On Wellington’s Unity Books
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Books, people, ideas and a strong sense of community are at the heart of Unity Books in Wellington, writes co-owner and manager Tilly Lloyd. I doubt many Australian sports people,...
Your store: Non-book item of the month
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
This pack of three acrylic coffee templates from DOIY Design helps spruce up your morning coffee whether you’ve got a barista’s skills or not. Each come with three shapes—a love...
Your store: Strictly business
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
To sell business books successfully you need to invest time in selection, says Boffins Books co-owner Bill Liddelow. ‘Don’t fall into the trap of just having some “Dummies” or “Idiot’s...
Your store: Strong foundations
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Melbourne bookseller Readings was named the inaugural Bookstore of the Year at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards in April. The judges highlighted Readings’ events program and its two...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. What do you...
Behind the Mike: Profile of Mike Shuttleworth
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. He...
Unstuck in the middle: Middle-grade fiction in Australia
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Middle-grade children’s fiction is underrepresented—and often misunderstood—in Australian publishing, writes Danielle Binks. When people talk about younger readers, the language often invokes building and architecture—gateway literature, foundation years—and for good...
Book bites: A taste of books to come
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
In the picture Move over wombats. Koalas take a starring role in two forthcoming picture books from Scholastic. Don’t Call Me Bear by Pig the Pug author Aaron Blabey (August)...
Shelf talk: Good sports
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Every Anzac Day commentators make a false equivalence between the efforts of Australia’s troops and the men paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a ball around some grass....
Shelf talk: Memorable memoirs
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Foreign Soil author Maxine Beneba Clarke’s forthcoming memoir The Hate Race (Hachette, August) is surely one of the most anticipated of the year. It tells the story of Clarke’s life...
Shelf talk: Crime pays
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The winter months will be big for crime lovers with both the Davitt Awards and Ned Kelly Awards scheduled to be announced, and a swathe of new titles due to...
Shelf talk: The write stuff
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Writers looking for tips or a way to procrastinate under the guise of productivity can look forward to writing guides from two of Australia’s funniest authors. Catherine Deveny’s Use Your...
Shelf talk: Classic comics
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Graphic novels are heating up as more progressive genres are being tackled by ever more daring creators. Punpun is an average kid in an average town... whose life turns decidedly...
Where does a book sell and why: A look at sales for different channels
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds takes a closer look at sales for indies, chains and discount department stores. Consumers buy books in many places, from a planned purchase...
Talkback: Too many writers’ festivals?
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Does Australia have too many writers’ festivals? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. While there are a lot of writers’ festivals, it’s not the number that’s the problem. What is problematic is...
Pricing our business: Terri-ann White on book prices
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
UWA Publishing director, author and former bookseller Terri-ann White calls for industry-wide resistance to lower book prices and greater efficiency in distribution in her latest column on the state of...
All the rage: Claire Zorn on ‘One Would Think the Deep’
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Claire Zorn’s One Would Think the Deep is an exploration of violence and grief that ‘has all the trademark complexities of her first two novels’, writes reviewer Bec Kavanagh. She...
Race relations: Randa Abdel-Fattah on ‘When Michael Met Mina’
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s When Michael Met Mina follows the burgeoning relationship between Mina, a ‘scholarship girl’ originally from Afghanistan, and Michael, whose family belongs to a racist political organisation. Reviewer Frances...
On tour: Michael Grant
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Michael Grant’s latest book is Front Lines (HGE). He is travelling to the Sydney Writers’ Festival and Brisbane in May What would you put on a shelf-talker for your latest...
Small publisher spotlight: Monash University Publishing
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Melbourne-based Monash University Publishing released its first titles in 2010. Director Nathan Hollier spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company in under 50 words. Monash...
On tour: Hanya Yanagihara
Friday, 29 April 2016
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your latest book? A fairytale about male romance set in someplace that feels a lot like New York City in a time...
On tour: Herman Koch
Friday, 29 April 2016
Dutch writer Herman Koch is the author of the satirical novel The Dinner (Text). His latest book Dear Mr M (Text) will be released in August. He is travelling to...
The polyphonic read: Rajith Savanadasa on ‘Ruins’
Friday, 29 April 2016
Told from the perspectives of five characters, Rajith Savanadasa’s Ruins is ‘a riveting debut that examines the intricacies of class, racial and generational divides in contemporary Sri Lanka’, writes reviewer...
Small publisher spotlight: Ford Street Publishing
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Melbourne-based Ford Street Publishing specialises in children’s and YA books, and released its first titles in 2007. Founder Paul Collins spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe...
Small publisher spotlight: Vine Leaves Press
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Established in 2014, Melbourne-based Vine Leaves Press specialises in book-length vignette, poetry and short-story collections, among other things. Co-founder Jessica Bell spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series:...
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