Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Ruffino joins Keeperton as head of commercial strategy
- Bonnier UK to cease new acquisitions for Echo
- CBCA announces new award category
- “Tori Woods” found guilty
- Readings Best of the Best 2025
- QUT to become new custodian of “Meanjin”
- Hachette Australia announces “Belonging and Storytelling” event
- Local publishers on Bologna Prize shortlist
- Allen & Unwin acquires Duncan’s “Musquito”
- Affirm acquires Blue-eyed Kayla Jade’s memoir
Top stories over the past month
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Claims of hypocrisy levelled over AWW as Abdel-Fattah invitation reissued
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- Writing Australia announces North America Publishers’ Program delegates
- Writing Australia announces 2026 VIPs
- A&U acquires book based on “The Inventors” series
- Jones retires from Abbey’s
- Local authors feature in UK and US shortlists
- Mildura Writers Festival director, board changes
- Wiley acquires Judd’s debut
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Atria acquires BookToker Bateman debut
- Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
- Hachette acquires McNab’s true crime ‘Recipe for Murder’
- Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut
- Wombat Books launches writing prize for teens
- Bakers Lane Books: New publisher, writing prize launched
- ILF Day theme announced
- Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
- Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year
- World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
Top stories since 1 January 2026
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Silvey charged over child exploitation material
- Claims of hypocrisy levelled over AWW as Abdel-Fattah invitation reissued
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- Writing Australia announces North America Publishers’ Program delegates
- Writing Australia announces 2026 VIPs
- A&U acquires book based on “The Inventors” series
- Jones retires from Abbey’s
- Local authors feature in UK and US shortlists
- Mildura Writers Festival director, board changes
- Besliev and Blake promoted at Simon & Schuster
- Wiley acquires Judd’s debut
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- Libraro and Hachette UK launch £50,000 “reader-led” prize
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- Courtney Peppernell on “The Last Poem”
- Courtney Peppernell recommends
- Explainer: What are orphan works – and how would a proposed orphan works scheme affect publishing?
- Writers’ centres are “fundamental” to literary culture
- Wheeler Centre turns 15
- Community Publishing, Australian Literature and the “DIY Publishing Toolkit”
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Call for submissions: A how-to guide for responding to government
- Recommended reads for Father’s Day
- ASA, APA, Copyright Agency, NZSA statement on LibGen: What to do next?
- Who’s eating publishers’ lunch? The rising costs and shrinking margins of Australian books
- Publishers’ top picks: Australian fiction
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Global Book Crawl a ‘success’ in Australia
- Mother’s Day recommendations from B+P reviewers
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- Australian Book Design Awards 2025 longlists announced
Top Junior stories
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (fiction): Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (Clare Stephens, Atlantic), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjajamuwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika (Solomon Cocky, ed Barbara Hale & Inge Kral, UWA Publishing), stars, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum
- (fiction): Lyrebird (Jane Caro, A&U), stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (fiction): Left Behind (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (young_adult): For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (picture_book): Naynay and the Mermaid (Tasma Walton, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by A Kirk
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): He Would Never (Holly Wainwright, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Alida Galati
- (fiction): The Farm (Jessica Mansour-Nahra, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (younger_readers): The Making of Martha Mayfield (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Tenille White
- (picture_book): Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder (Tim Winton, illus Cindy Lane, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Caitlin Hadrill
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (younger_readers): Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Kathryn Wheaton Grierson
- (nonfiction): The Man Who Planted Canberra (Robert Macklin, NLA), stars, reviewed by Michael Kitson
- (fiction): Very Impressive for Your Age (Eleanor Kirk, A&U), stars, reviewed by Heidi Maier
- (young_adult): A Guide to Falling Off the Map (Zanni L Arnot, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (picture_book): Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (young_adult): What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino