PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Michael Deves on how to hunker

Michael Deves, Wakefield Press typesetter and production all-rounder, talks today about his uplifting personal favourite books, just right for the prescribed hunkering down.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Poppy Nwosu on timing and strange times

Today’s entry comes from Poppy Nwosu, marketing and publicity coordinator at Wakefield Press, and author of young adult fiction. Her latest book, Taking Down Evelyn Tait, will be published by Wakefield Press on 01 April 2020.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Maddy Sexton on self care in strange times

Today's entry comes from Maddy Sexton, Events Manager. Maddy discusses the importance of staying connected, as well as taking time for yourself when things are all a bit not-quite-right.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: YA Publisher Margot Lloyd

Today's entry comes from Margot Lloyd, our wonderful head of Young Adult publishing. Read on for some very exclusive sneak peeks at some of the great YA books Wakefield Press will be releasing in the coming weeks and months.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: A Wakefield Press diary

Times are strange.

CELEBRATE International Women's Day with these trailblazing heroines!

The theme for International Women's Day 2020 is I am Generation Equality: Realising Women's Rights. Here at Wakefield Press we are proud of the cultural, social, economic, and political achievements of the Australian women who have shaped our country and our home state, South Australia. Did you know that South Australia was the first place in the world where women won both the right to vote and the right to stand for parliament, on 18… Continue reading

CELEBRATE 60 Years of the Adelaide Festival with Wakefield Press!

The Adelaide Festival is as much shaped by people and place as it in turn shapes people and place; its identity is a weird and wild shifting thing. It is not owned by one individual, but belongs to everyone. Right now in Adelaide we are experiencing our annual festival season, one of our favourite times of the year here at Wakefield Press! Yet this year festival season is even more special than usual! In 2020,… Continue reading

Wakefield Press and Love Your Bookshop Day

Love Your Bookshop Day is all about celebrating what makes local bookshops so great (and so important)! Here at Wakefield Press, we're celebrating by opening our shop on Saturday 10 August, but the celebration is about more than just one day. As our fearless leader, Michael Bollen, considers the daunting 'For Official Use Only' headers that have plagued his inbox as late, he also ponders his own official use as a publisher. In Diary of a Publisher, a brilliant…

Book Review: Making Friends with Alice Dyson

Our intern Jessica Hartman reviews debut author Poppy Nwosu's Making Friends With Alice Dyson, the first in Wakefield Press's dedicated Young Adult Fiction list led by Margot Lloyd. Whilst reading this text I have fallen in love with, become exasperated by, and completely related to Alice Dyson, the protagonist Poppy Nwosu has so artfully created. The text delves into issues of social anxiety, peer pressure and bullying, self-identity, the feeling of being trapped on a…

An Interview with: Claire Morey, Intern

Meet our wonderful intern, Claire, who recently completed her Honours degree in history (and then plunged right into a two-week stint at Wakefield Press!). Claire talks about the importance of self-aware history writers and the impact university has on reading habits. What is the first book you ever read? One of the first novel-sized books I can remember reading is probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It seems to be the most…