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. This week, Roger and Judy traipse through Nice.
Continue readingEvery 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. 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 Angela Crocombe, Senior Buyer at Readings Kids in Carlton, Victoria. Read on to find out what her favourite part about being a bookseller is, and to see her…
Continue readingRoger 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.
Continue readingEvery 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…
Continue readingBarbara 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.
Continue readingRoger 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.
Continue readingWakefield 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.
Continue readingRoger 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…
Continue readingIn 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…
Continue readingRoger 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…
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