It’s that time of year, where our bakers get competitive and compete for the highly coveted title of bake-off champion, and the rest of the staff stuff themselves silly on all manner of incredible bakes and cakes, and we raise some money for Cancer Council with Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.… Read the rest
Want to know what it’s like doing our Faber Writing Academy Writing a Novel course? Journalist Diana Jenkins shares her experiences of the course so far, what she’s learnt from our tutors, and how it’s helping progress her novel (and also comments on course catering & our eating habits!).… Read the rest
Today we hosted our annual bake-off, and in time-honoured fashion our Onions came to the office laden with baked goods and laid them out in front of unsuspecting judges, as Anneka Manning and Holly Throsby faced the challenge of eating and rating the splendid fare.… Read the rest
If you hadn’t already noticed (evidenced here, here & here for instance), we take our baking and cake eating very seriously. To celebrate Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea we hosted our annual bake-off with guest judges Annabel Crabb and Fiona Inglis facing quite a challenge in rating the competition.… Read the rest
At Sydney Writers Festival we celebrated Tashi turning twenty in the only way appropriate, inviting all his friends and readers to join authors Anna & Barbara Fienberg for a big birthday party!… Read the rest
So you may be aware we like cake, and we like any excuse for cake, so with Josephine Moon’s book The Chocolate Promise based around a Tasmanian chocolate shop called the Chocolate Apothecary, we just couldn’t resist celebrating its forthcoming publication with a chocolate themed morning tea!… Read the rest
We’ve been getting more and more festive here at Onion HQ as Christmas approaches, and this week (spurred on in particular by a two hour internet outage) an inter-departmental Christmas Decoration-off has escalated to new heights of competitiveness (everything turns into a competition here, even baking).… Read the rest
Should you be a regular reader of our blog or follow us on social media you may know we like cake, and our Instagram feed typically supports this suggestion. It isn’t just eating cake that we’re into though, as nice as that is, we’re a company of bakers as much as we are readers, so every year we throw down the gauntlet to our staff to see who can create the most delicious baked goods.… Read the rest
Want to know what it’s like to work in book marketing at a publishing company? Well we asked our intern Lisa, who recently joined us, to share her experiences so far, and how she ended up travelling from Germany to join us in Sydney!… Read the rest
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Se, a winner of a Girlfriend Magazine competition to be a publisher for the day. Winning from over 1,000 entries, Se joined us to learn the ins and outs of publishing with a whistle-stop tour of our world of books in our Sydney office. … Read the rest
