BOOK REVIEW: The Bath Fugues (Brian Castro, Giramondo)
Brian Castro’s Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel The Bath Fugues (Giramondo) was reviewed back in the May/June 2009 issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine by Max Oliver, a veteran Australian bookseller....
View ArticleThe new issue has landed!
Well, the shiny new issue of Bookseller+Publisher has landed, with a big fat 20 on the cover—that’d be Allen & Unwin, who are celebrating 20 years of independent publishing this year. Happy...
View ArticleTop picks from the current issue
Which books got good reviews in the October issue of Bookseller+Publisher you ask? Well… The proof copy of Caroline Overington’s novel I Came to Say Goodbye came covered in glowing quotes from Random...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Monica McInerney on ‘At Home with the Templetons’ (Michael Joseph)
Monica McInerney spent six months researching stage fright, Irish surf schools and much more for her latest novel, she tells Rachel Wilson. At Home with the Templetons, like all your novels, deals...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: How to Make Gravy (Paul Kelly, Hamish Hamilton)
Paul Kelly’s story begins with the Spiegeltent in Melbourne in 2004 when he was offered an exclusive show: four nights of never-to-be repeated performances. Around that was born the idea of singing 100...
View ArticleThe Indigenous Literacy Project: Kimberley visit
Matthia Dempsey was invited to accompany several members of the publishing industry on a recent visit to some of the schools involved in the book industry’s Indigenous Literacy Project. She shares some...
View ArticleReviewers’ top picks from the current issue
In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Avid Reader’s Paul Landymore was mightily impressed with Brendan Cowell’s How It Feels (Picador, November), a debut novel that opens in Cronulla...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Brendan Cowell on ‘How it Feels’ (Picador)
‘Sex, drugs, art, suicide, love, death and, possibly, murder are the themes of this exceptional debut novel,’ writes Paul Landymore in his five-star review of Brendan Cowell’s debut novel. He spoke to...
View ArticleBookseller+Publisher magazine June issue: top picks
The June issue has landed! This time around several titles impressed our reviewers. Here are just a few: Berlin Syndrome (Melanie Joosten, Scribe, July) Reviewer Eloise Keating describes Melanie...
View ArticleThe October issue!: Reviewers’ top picks
Did we mention the October issue of the magazine hit our desks a couple of weeks ago? Here are the reviewers’ top picks from the reviews this time around: Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U,...
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