Sundays Under the Lemon Tree (Julia Busuttil Nishimura, illus Myo Yim, Scribble)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Best known for her cookbooks, Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s debut picture book,…
UQP acquires O’Keeffe’s third novel
Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to…
Hachette acquires Carmody’s dystopian romantasy
Monday, 22 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Hachette Australia has acquired The Shadows that Listen, a debut dystopian…
Fiction takes top three spots for first time in 2025
Friday, 19 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Top 10 bestsellers Wild Card (Elsie Silver, Piatkus) The Secret of…
Book Review: ‘The Whisper Place’ by Mindy Mejia
It’s uncanny to drive by fictional crime scenes on my way to work. I have always wondered what…
Readings’ A Day in Carlton program announced
Thursday, 18 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Readings has announced the full 2025 program for ‘A Day in…
The inventor of the Internet remains convinced he made the world a better place
Imagine what it must have been like to invent the wheel, and then still be around to watch…
Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi
Indignity: A Life Reimagined Author: Lea Ypi ISBN-13: 978-0241661925 Publisher: Allen Lane Guideline Price: £22 All families have…
The Hiding Place (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing No stranger to the literary scene, Kate Mildenhall (The Mother Fault,…
New and reprinted titles from Mary Murphy, Raymond Briggs, Oscar Wilde and more – The Irish Times
Little earthlings may be fascinated by space, but spacelings find us to be equally curious creatures. In Mary…
Garner longlisted for 2025 Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize
Monday, 8 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing In the UK, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by…
Oliver Twist’s villain is reimagined in ‘Fagin the Thief’
“Fagin the Thief,” by Allison Epstein (Doubleday, 2025) Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in…