Every thriving reading community needs good bookshops, and good booksellers. In our Meet the Bookseller series, we introduce you to some of Australia’s most loved booksellers, starting with our local community of Adelaide. If you’d like to nominate a bookshop or bookseller to be featured, please let us know in comments, or email maddy@wakefieldpress.com.au.

This week, meet Alice Teasedale, owner of Kangaroo Island-based Big Quince Print and its carefully curated shop, the Book Nook. Alice tells us what it’s like to run a print, copy and signwriting shop alongside a bookshop – phew!

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Barbara Hanrahan was one of Australia’s most distinctive artists. Characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy, her works are fearlessly direct and unashamedly decorative.

In a special guest piece for the blog, Dr Judith Thomas writes about the iconic artist’s knack for creating unease in her artwork.

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Roger Zubrinich and Judy Peters like to travel. A lot. Prior to the pandemic, the couple would escape the Australian winter and head to Europe for the summer, traipsing through countries via a hire car.

With overseas travel now something of a dream, Roger has decided to revisit some of their destinations in writing. The next instalment in the Travel for Two series sees Roger and Judy navigating traffic, sipping cold beers, and learning about the history of Peniscola.

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Wakefield Press is excited to announce the acquisition of world rights to Jodi McAlister’s YA rom-com Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending, via Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Literary. It is scheduled for Australian publication in May 2022.
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Roger Zubrinich and Judy Peters like to travel. A lot. Prior to the pandemic, the couple would escape the Australian winter and head to Europe for the summer, traipsing through countries via a hire car.

With overseas travel now something of a dream, Roger has decided to revisit some of their destinations in writing. He has no doubt that driving to them is infinitely easier.

The next instalment in the Travel for Two series sees Roger and Judy dipping into the pleasures of Sabbioneta. Read on to travel with us!

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In June this year, Emeritus Professor Barbara Santich delivered a fascinating talk to the South Australian Garden History Society. Barbara has been kind enough to let us republish her fascinating talk on little-known Jean-Louis Edouard Bourbaud.

A little-known figure, Bourbaud was a French wine expert who came to SA in the mid-19th Century, and who also encouraged mulberry growing for silk production. Barbara’s research on Bourbaud is part of a wider research project for the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations (ISFAR), although the project is still in its early stages.

Find out more about his fascinating story below!

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Roger Zubrinich and Judy Peters like to travel. A lot. And primarily, but not exclusively, to Europe. The attraction of Europe, apart from its more or less limitless offerings, is that they are able to drive their way around. Every European summer from 1994 to 2019 after which the pandemic halted travel, they’ve picked up a lease car, most often in Paris but not always, and have driven to places large and small across Europe and the UK. Roger drives, Judy navigates, and yes, they’re still together.

Sometimes the excursions have been as short as four weeks, other times as long as 12 weeks. They have driven as far north as Lulea in Sweden, which is about 110 kilometres below the Arctic Circle, and as far east as the Black Sea in Romania and Bulgaria. In fact, they’ve driven through most countries in Europe, some numerous times, with the exceptions being countries such as the Ukraine that are excluded by the lease car insurance. Given that they can’t travel at present, Roger has decided to revisit some of their destinations in writing. He has no doubt that driving to them is infinitely easier.

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Every thriving reading community needs good bookshops, and good booksellers. In our Meet the Bookseller series, we introduce you to some of Australia’s most loved booksellers, starting with our local community of Adelaide. If you’d like to nominate a bookshop or bookseller to be featured, please let us know in comments, or email maddy@wakefieldpress.com.au.

This week, meet Annie Waters, manager at Mostly Books in Mitcham. Read on to find out what the last book she read and loved was, and what makes Mostly Books different from other bookshops.

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 In our author interview series RAPID FIRE, we’re getting to know our authors a little better by throwing a few quick questions at them. Next up to the plate is Lisa Walker, author of Trouble is My Business, the next Olivia Grace mystery.

Lisa talks about her current 1960s-flavoured reading habits, the book that most inspired the character of Olivia Grace, and something she wished she’d known about publishing before getting started.

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Every thriving reading community needs good bookshops, and good booksellers. In our Meet the Bookseller series, we introduce you to some of Australia’s most loved booksellers, starting with our local community of Adelaide. If you’d like to nominate a bookshop or bookseller to be featured, please let us know in comments, or email maddy@wakefieldpress.com.au.

This week, we have Molly Murn, a long-time bookseller at Matilda Bookshop in the spectacular Adelaide Hills town of Stirling. Read on to find out what she loves about being a bookseller, and how she first got into the business of books.

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