"Still waters run deep" : empirical methods and the migration patterns of regional publishers' authors and titles within Australian literature

In the recent book 'London was full of rooms', Carol Hetherington argues that the "statistical basis for the London-centric view of Australian literary production is misleading" (Hetherington 245). This account, though, when held against the bibliographic evidence that it examines, at least in AustLit's current dataset, is itself incomplete [Graph A]. As might be observed in the graph representing the place of publication of first-edition Australian novels around the world, for the period 1900-2000, the next largest publisher of Australian fiction after London, the United States, is less than one quarter the size of the total British production of Australian novels.