Employment in the Australian publishing industry in 2022
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
In July 2022 Books+Publishing (B+P) surveyed more than 300 people about their employment in the Australian book industry, following up on similar surveys in 2013 and 2018. This report focuses on the data...
Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 August
Friday, 19 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Desire: A reckoning (Jessie Cole, Text) Marlo (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The...
Passion for poetry: Sales in the wake of ‘Dropbear’
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
With sales of nearly 15,000 copies to date, Evelyn Araluen's 2022 Stella Prize winner Dropbear has defied the stereotype of poetry as a traditionally niche and low-selling genre. In our...
Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 August
Friday, 12 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text) Provocations (Jeff Sparrow, NewSouth) Should We Fall...
Meg Foster recommends
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen. It is a raw, evocative and powerful book of poetry that looks at Australia through a vivid and unvarnished lens. Many poems have First Nations’ perspectives...
Meg Foster on ‘Boundary Crossers’
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Meg Foster is a historian of banditry, settler colonial and public history; her new book Boundary Crossers (NewSouth, November) explores the lives of four lesser-known Australian bushrangers. Described by reviewer...
Pitched at MIFF
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Back in person at the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Books at MIFF event once again gave publishers and literary agents the opportunity to pitch books with screen potential. After...
Books in the media this weekend, 6–7 August
Friday, 5 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Legitimate Sexpectations (Katrina Marson, Scribe) Mothercare (Lynne Tillman, Soft Skull Press)...
Untapped no more: heritage literature back in print
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Launched in November 2020, Untapped: The Australian Literary Heritage Project began as a collaboration between authors, libraries and researchers to bring out-of-print Australian books back into circulation as ebooks available...
Books in the media this weekend, 30–31 July
Friday, 29 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding (Amanda Svensson, Scribe) Lessons...
WFH easier but more than half stressed, burnt out: Book industry survey 2022
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
In July 2022 Books+Publishing (B+P) surveyed over 300 people about their employment in the Australian book industry, following up on similar surveys in 2013 and 2018. This year, for the...
Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 July
Friday, 22 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Harvest Lingo (Lionel Fogarty, Giramondo) Out of Breath (Anna Snoekstra, HQ Fiction)...
Meet ABA Children’s Bookseller of the Year Becky Lucas
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Becky Lucas is the owner of Shakespeare's Bookshop in Blackwood, in the Adelaide foothills. Named 2022 ABA Children's Bookseller of the Year, Lucas has a passion for children's books and...
Bookshop tour: Scorpio Books, Christchurch
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Established nearly 50 years ago, Scorpio Books is the biggest bookshop in the South Island of Aoteoroa New Zealand, and is considered an institution by many Christchurch locals. The well-loved...
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 July
Friday, 15 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Lilly and Her Slave (Has Fallada, Scribe) Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams,...
Who is #BookTok-ing in Australia, and how
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Around the world, publishers are attracting new readers and experiencing increased sales via the #BookTok hashtag on TikTok—but what about here? Jo Case looks at how Australian publishers, booksellers and...
Six key ingredients for BookTok success
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
With growth of #BookTok-recommended titles phenomenally outstripping the wider adult fiction market, publishers are keen to harness the platform and booksellers must keep an eye on what's trending. Jo Case...
Tracey Lien on ‘All That’s Left Unsaid’
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Tracey Lien's debut novel All That's Left Unsaid (HQ Fiction, September) blends a murder-mystery with a 'raw and honest' exploration of the Vietnamese-Australian experience in the late 90s. Reviewer Anthea Yang, who...
Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 July
Friday, 8 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Age of Fibs (Beth Spencer, Spineless Wonders) Disorientation (Elaine Hsieh...
Books yule love: 2022 Christmas children’s and young adult
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2022. Picture books Readers young and old will delight in a number of new...
Life after Trump: Political books now
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
While the Australian federal election (and the Morrison government) is now behind us and Trump titles no longer dominate the category, books that explain the world we inhabit are still...
Melanie La’Brooy on ‘The Wintrish Girl’
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Melanie La'Brooy's The Wintrish Girl (UQP) is the first book in her 'Talismans of Fate' fantasy trilogy for middle-grade readers. Featuring magical creatures and new friendships, the book uses tropes...
Meet ABA Bookseller of the Year Melanie Peacock
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Born and bred on Sydney’s north shore, winner of the 2022 Australian Booksellers Association Bookseller of the Year Melanie Peacock cannot walk past a bookshop without venturing in. Peacock started...
Melanie La’Brooy recommends
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Somehow I made it through most of my life without ever reading a single book by Sir Terry Pratchett. It wasn’t until my teenage son became a Pratchett devotee and...
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 July
Friday, 1 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Diplomat (Chris Womersley, Picador) Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette) Lapvona...
Books yule love: 2022 Christmas nonfiction
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local adult nonfiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2022. Memoir and biography Themes of joy, love and community run through two highly anticipated memoirs...
Tobias Madden recommends
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
A book I recently read and adored was Holden Sheppard’s upcoming YA novel The Brink (Text, August). On the surface, it’s a hard-hitting story about a group of school leavers...
Tobias Madden on ‘Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell’
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Tobias Madden's Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell (Penguin, September) is a Ballarat-set coming-of-age rom-com that follows teens Eli and Noah as they bond online and navigate meeting in person. Featuring...
Books in the media this weekend, 25–26 June
Friday, 24 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Rattled (Ellis Gunn, A&U) The Red Witch (Nathan Hobby, The Miegunyah...
Books yule love: 2022 Christmas fiction
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local adult fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2022. Book club picks Among the releases due in the second half of 2022 are several...
