Bestsellers, first week back
Friday, 9 January 2026
Top 10 bestsellers The Housemaid (Freida McFadden, Bookouture) (combined editions) Talons of Power (Wings of Fire graphic novel #9) (Tui Sutherland, illus by Mike Holmes, Scholastic) Arnott's: The Cookbook (Are...
Crime, politics and history in Aussie bestsellers
Friday, 5 December 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Guinness World Records 2026 (Guinness World Records, Guiness) Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Brimstone (Callie Hart, Hodderscape) Big...
Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 September
Monday, 29 September 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper Apron-Sorrow...
Romance, colouring books and children’s fiction dominate Aussie bestsellers
Monday, 29 September 2025
Top 10 bestsellers The Secret of Secrets (Dan Brown, Bantam) The Hallmarked Man (Robert Galbraith, Sphere) Fearful (Lauren Roberts, S&S Children’s) The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins,...
A new top Australian cookbook; and a triply cosy week of bestsellers
Monday, 28 April 2025
Top 10 bestsellers The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins, Hay House) Sunrise on the Reaping (Suzanne Collins, Scholastic) Fearless (Lauren Roberts, S&S Children’s) Easy Dinner Queen (Steph...
Fearless debuts at number one; children’s books chart
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Fearless (Lauren Roberts, S&S Children's) The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins, Hay House) Sunrise on the Reaping (Suzanne Collins, Scholastic) Cozy Corner (Coco Wyo,...
Tigga Mac debuts at four
Monday, 30 September 2024
Top 10 bestsellers We Solve Murders (Richard Osman, Viking) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Daydream (Hannah Grace, S&S) Tigga Mac’s Cake Hacks (Tegan MacCormack & Katie Scoble, Penguin) It...
Latest Dog Man debuts in top spot
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Top 10 bestsellers The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man #12) (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) Bluey: Hooray, It's Easter! (Puffin) What Happened to Nina (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins) Bluey: Happy Easter (Puffin) Bluey: Easter...
Pantera acquires Price debut
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Perfect Candidate, a debut work of nonfiction from Lucinda Price (also known as Froomes), via Claire Harrison at Creative Representation. Pantera Press described...
RiP Steph Bowe
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Australian YA author Steph Bowe has died, aged 25, due to complications from T-cell acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, a form of leukemia. Bowe began her career as a blogger before publishing...
Motorbike-riding librarians visit Bega on annual library tour
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Motorbike library-tour group Biblio Turismo has visited Bega library as part of its annual tour of New South Wales libraries, reports Bega District News. Between 8-11 November the group visited libraries...
Child tops ALIA most-borrowed list in 2018; Pape tops nonfiction
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with library provider Civica to compile a list of most-borrowed books from Australian libraries from June 2017 to May 2018. Like last...
Sexual abuse victim seeks compensation from NLA
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is being pursued for compensation by a Balinese man who was the victim of sexual abuse revealed in a book of diary entries by...
‘Alpacas with Maracas’ to be read for 2019 National Simultaneous Storytime
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Matt Cosgrove’s picture book Alpacas with Maracas (Koala Books) has been chosen for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime next year. National Simultaneous Storytime will take...
Correction
Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Books+Publishing published an article under the title of 'Former Mary Ryan's Byron Bay relaunches as the Book Room at Byron' on 13 February 2018 in which former Mary Ryan’s franchisees...
RiP Chris Player
Friday, 12 January 2018
The founder of specialist academic distributor Astam Books, Chris Player, has died. Footprint Books, which acquired Astam in 2006, supplied the following statement: ‘Sadly Chris Player passed away on Saturday,...
RiP Rose Creswell
Monday, 24 April 2017
Former literary agent Rose Creswell has died. The Cameron Creswell Agency writes: ‘It is with much sadness The Cameron Creswell Agency announces the death, on Tuesday 19 April 2017, of...
