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...
Books in the media this weekend, 18–19 June
Friday, 17 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Basin (Scott McCulloch, Black Inc.) Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan) Horse...
ABA conference 2022: diversity, sustainability discussed—in person
Thursday, 16 June 2022
This year the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference was held in person for the first time since 2019, taking place 12–13 June at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney....
BookUp 2022: Greening and gatekeeping
Thursday, 16 June 2022
The second annual BookUp conference, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), was held in Sydney on Thursday, 9 June. ‘At least 180 people engaged with the program this year,...
Sophie Cunningham recommends
Thursday, 16 June 2022
I’ve just finished Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper (S&S). It’s a beautiful book, about the act of story telling and about the traumas that sometimes lie at the heart of...
Sophie Cunningham on ‘This Devastating Fever’
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
This Devastating Fever (Ultimo, September) is Sophie Cunningham's first novel in more than a decade. The novel interweaves the story of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their friends in the Bloomsbury...
Books in the media this weekend, 11–12 June
Friday, 10 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bad Art Mother (Edwina Preston, Wakefield) Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)...
Open Book intern Bohdi Byles on cracking open the book industry
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship is a six-month internship program aimed to increase cultural diversity in the Australian publishing workforce. This year’s pilot program offered two paid placements, one...
Grace Heifetz: insights from the Open Book pilot program
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The inaugural Open Book internship program received over 200 applications, with two successful applicants undertaking paid six-month internships this year, each with three different publishers and supported by an industry...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Mika Tabata
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
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....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Crystal Corocher
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
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....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Emily Hart
Monday, 6 June 2022
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....
Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 June
Friday, 3 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of AI (Toby Walsh, La Trobe...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Emily Cook
Friday, 3 June 2022
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....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Sam van der Plank
Thursday, 2 June 2022
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....
The Collins Booksellers story
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
May this year marks the 100-year anniversary of Collins Booksellers, which was established by Fredrick Henry (Harry) Slamen in 1922. The company celebrated its centenary over the weekend, where it...
Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Mietta Yans
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
In the lead-up to the 70th Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) Awards, Books+Publishing spoke to the two shortlisted nominees for Emerging Designer of the Year. In this second instalment we meet Mietta Yans,...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Kate Lloyd
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
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....
July books reviewed
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
A round-up of local books to look out for in July, as recommended by Books+Publishing reviewers in the past month. Fiction Come July, three debut authors will see their books...
