We interviewed Staying Whole While Falling Apart‘s author James Gering to find out how he stays whole while falling apart and more! Q: Your main protagonist is a character called Aaron Auslander but it’s hard to look past the parallels… are any of these poems based on your own experience? A: Many poems, yes – […]
Calling all “self isolating” artists (& others) We think it’s time to blast off from this virus-fuelled ‘hot spot’ to the fresh air of inspiration to be found in the cosmos. So we’re calling for entries to our first-ever digital anthology, which will have the theme/title Outer Space, Inner Minds. Any work that touches on our relation […]
The most gratifying outcome for an author is, of course, to have his book bought in huge numbers. But the next best thing is to be the subject of an extended critical study. That’s what’s happened in the case of my book, Hemingway in Spain: Words and Images (1st edition, 1997; 2nd edition 2007), and […]
A Compulsion to Kill is like no other! Investigating the lives of the murderous and heinous, Robert Cox brings Australia’s earliest serial killers to life in a gripping page-turner. Cox sat down with Editorial Assistant Sarah Trapski to have a quick chat about his new book. Sarah Trapski: With your previous work, Baptised in Blood, and now A […]
More international recognition for David P Reiter’s latest work! David’s recent win at the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2012 for the My Planets Reunion Memoir set the stage. And 2014 is looking to be bigger and better! The International Autobiography and Biography Association (IABA) Conference has just invited David to present Planets to a […]
I was delighted to have my first USA reading from My Planets at Op.Cit Bookshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We had been staying with my long time friend David de Vaux and Molly at their cosy home on the other side of the Rockies, about an hour and half drive from Santa Fe, and […]
IP is one of only 5 publishers invited to attend the Australia-China Publishing Forum in mid-March 2014! – who said the start of the year would be boring? We are excitedly preparing pitches for Chinese publishing houses regarding prospective sales and rights deals and looking forward to brushing shoulders with our colleagues at with Penguin […]
Blood by Peter Kay Blood was recently featured in The Mercury Saturday Magazine. Blood, written by Tasmanian local Peter Kay, is a magical realism novel involving time travel, romance, adventure, and the WWII bombing of Darwin. Blood has also been featured in The Sunday Tasmanian, The Saturday Tasmanian, CQU News and the University of Canberra […]
This week we feature the latest reviews of our titles I Love You Book by Libby Hathorn and Heath McKenzie and Sawdust by Deborah Kay with Barry Levy. I Love You Book is a charming picture book about the reasons why children (and adults!) love reading stories in books. It was inspired by a play […]
Our last ever issue of IP eNews is now online, so please check it out if you haven’t already: IP eNews 60 We’ve enjoyed the 15 years that eNews has been online and were pleased that the National Library has been archiving it as ‘a significant cultural feature’ almost from the start. The newsletter evolved […]
