Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Hummingbird Effect’
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall is a Melbourne-based writer whose first book, Skylarking, was longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Indie Book Awards. Her second novel was the widely lauded The Mother Fault. Her latest, The...
Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Historian and novelist Isolde Martyn and First Nations author Robyn Ridgeway have collaborated on a history of an imagined Australian country town, decade-by-decade from 1922 to the present day, illustrated...
Lonely Planet’s ‘blue spine’ guidebooks reimagined as publisher celebrates 50 years
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
As the travel category recovers from its pandemic low-point, Lonely Planet is celebrating 50 years. The publisher's senior director, trade sales & marketing Chris Zeiher talks to Books+Publishing about the...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local fiction
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Also see our features for nonfiction as well as children’s and YA titles. Familiar names...
Ash Barty on ‘Ash Barty: Champion’
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Ash Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer from Queensland. Those who pick up the new Young Readers edition of her memoir, Ash Barty: Champion (HarperCollins), ‘will...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local nonfiction
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local nonfiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Politics and culture Two books for those ready to read about the pandemic lockdowns: Life as...
Gabbie Stroud on ‘The Things That Matter Most’
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Gabbie Stroud is a self-professed 'recovering teacher' and author of the bestselling Teacher (2018, A&U) based in Merimbula, NSW. Her new adult novel, The Things That Matter Most (A&U, August), is an...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local children’s and YA
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Tis the season Among the children’s and YA titles coming in time for...
Maree Coote on ‘Letters for Lunch’
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Maree Coote is a celebrated Melbourne-based publisher, author and illustrator known for her captivating and intricately detailed illustrations. She won the coveted Bologna Ragnazzi 2017 Special Mention Prize for her...
The APA on a new ‘clean and modern’ TitlePage and future potential
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
The APA's Titlepage and supply chain manager Cat Colwell spoke to Books+Publishing about some recent changes to book pricing and availability service TitlePage, as well as its potential to provide more real-time...
Wendy Orr on ‘Honey and the Valley of the Horses’
Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Wendy Orr is a Canadian-born writer who now calls Australia home. She is the author of over 40 books but is perhaps best known for her beloved novel Nim's Island...
Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 June
Friday, 2 June 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Dark Cloud (Guillaume Pitron, Scribe) Eleven Letters to You (Helen Elliott,...
ABIAs: This year’s winners on their books, and the industry that produced them
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
At this year’s ABIA awards Books+Publishing digital producer Andrew Wrathall spoke with some of the winners about their books, bookshops and the trends affecting the industry. From BookTok, to paper...
Alice Wood on HarperCollins’s ABIA-shortlisted marketing campaigns
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
HarperCollins, under head of marketing communications Alice Wood, has received three of the five nominations for the inaugural Marketing Strategy of the Year award in this year's Australian Book Industry...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
In part two of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner share the...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
In part one of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner outline the...
Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The product of two years’ work by IPEd’s Accessibility Initiative Working Party, based on a review of the international literature and a survey of local publishers, the new publication Books...
Amplify Bookstore’s winter picks
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share their...
Time to open a bookshop
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Various new bookshops have opened up across Australia this year and the previous year, with most of them being focused on children’s books. We take a brief look at the...
Books in the media this weekend, 15–16 April
Thursday, 13 April 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Cellnight (John Kinsella, Transit Lounge) Greek Lessons (Han Kang, Hamish Hamilton)...
Carl Merrison on ‘Backyard Footy’
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Hailing from Halls Creek, children's author Carl Merrison won a 2020 black&write! fellowship to develop his 'Backyard Sports' picture book series. The first book, Backyard Footy (illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian,...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Books+Publishing's rights publication Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut is in the running for three NSW Premier's awards and the Stella...
Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 April
Friday, 31 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Blue Hunger (Viola di Grando, Scribe) Hard To Bear (Isabelle Oderberg,...
How international book markets performed in 2022
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Through the PubMagNet initiative, a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world, representatives from publications in Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US have shared insights...
Jess Racklyeft recommends
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
I am a huge fan of Claire Saxby’s work (I have been honoured to work on the books Iceberg and Whisper on the Wind [both A&U] with her) and recently read Tasmanian...
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....
Megan Rogers recommends
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The last book I read and loved was Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (Penguin). I’d been wanting to read it for years but didn’t get a chance until after I’d finished...
Megan Rogers on ‘The Heart is a Star’
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Megan Rogers' debut novel, The Heart is a Star (HarperCollins, May), centres on a middle-aged anaesthetist, Layla, who is juggling her career, family and love life when she must travel to Tasmania...
Christmas 2022: sales up, supply problems ease
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Books+Publishing received feedback from representatives of 53 bookshops around Australia for its annual Christmas survey. According to booksellers, there was a bump in book sales in the lead-up to Christmas...
B D Lovell recommends
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (Scribner) is probably the last book that I really loved, even though I read it several years ago. It is a YA...
