Book designer and blogger W H Chong was interviewed by ABC Radio's The Book Show about the recent cover he designed for Lloyd Jones' Hand Me Down World and the unique process that is book cover design.
As part of her quest to read 20 classics in 2011, Angela Meyer read Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. While it was great fun:"I wish I’d read it as a kid of about 11 or 12. It would have been absolutely thrilling, then."
After a new book on Churchill, it is unlikely that Winnie's reputation will survive at all, or our idea of World War II with it.
Does a plug by another author on a book cover ever convince you to buy it? Author Bill Morris explains the delicate business of 'blurbing', where writers indulge in mutual pats-on-the-back and help aspiring writers get their books onto shelves.
The gruesome survival story outlined in American rock climber Aron Ralston's memoirs is full of suffering and pain. However it also brims with hope and the overcoming of immense adversity, writes Alice Robertson.
Laura van den Berg has particular skill in capturing the strangeness that can come at times -- the sense of being a stranger to your own life and the world, says Matthia Dempsey regarding her short story collection What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us.
Should the demise of the mega bookseller come as a surprise? Probably not.
Book retailer REDgroup is a victim of online retailers (and the federal government's rejection of recommendations to open up the local market) or simply poor management. Crikey asked publishers and retailers what it means.
Only a fool would believe the public will rush to spend two -- three times as much for their product in order to sustain book stores just because they're nice. writes fiction editor at Australian Book Review Chris Flynn.
'Culturomics' is a paradigm for studying cultural trends using large amounts of textual data. An exciting new project will draw over 500 billion words from many languages from Google Books, writes James McElvenny.
