Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out
By Catriona Menzies-Pike
Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately
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How to Love the World by Ilka Tampke review – a woman is trapped by a fallen tree
By Catriona Menzies-Pike
The stuck narrator records the minutiae of the forest and her harrowing life in a purposeful novel that demands a slow read but doesn’t always reward it
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/12/ilka-tampke-how-to-love-the-world-review-book-novel
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Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism
The cancellation of Jazz Money’s children’s book Bila, A River Cycle over comments by the book’s illustrator, Matt Chun, has led to the publisher’s potential collapse On 28 February, University of Queensland Press received an email from one of its authors warning of the publisher’s impending collapse. UQP is one of the most celebrated literary houses in the country – the Australian Book Industry Awards’ small publisher of the year for four of the past five years – and its enviable stable of authors continues to win major awards. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/03/shaken-staff-and-an-author-exodus-how-a-picture-book-plunged-an-acclaimed-australian-publisher-into-a-crisis-over-antisemitism
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The cancellation of Jazz Money’s children’s book Bila, A River Cycle over comments by the book’s illustrator, Matt Chun, has led to the publisher’s potential collapse
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