Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Copyright Agency announces latest Cultural Fund grants
- Rockpool acquires Major Street
- A&U acquires Wilkinson’s new YA novel
- Meerkat acquires Bacon’s first Sauútiverse novel
- Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak”
- Grattan releases PM summer reading list
- MidnightSun Publishing launches picture book prize
- Writing Australia appointments
- Waterstones names 2025 books of the year
- Living Libraries Infrastructure Program funding announced
Top stories over the past month
- Ruffino to depart Simon & Schuster
- A&U acquires Hardy’s memoir and novel
- SLV responds to reports on cuts
- Readings Prize 2025 winners announced
- New First Nations metadata standards published
- PRH acquires debut Crozier novel
- Affirm acquires Keegan’s second novel
- Affirm Press acquires Moloney’s “Why We Garden”
- Spiers Prize winners announced
- A&U acquires Flynn biography
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
- Bakers Lane Books: New publisher, writing prize launched
- ILF Day theme announced
- Wombat Books launches writing prize for teens
- World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
- Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year
- Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
Top stories since 1 January 2025
- 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
- Bakers Lane Books: New publisher, writing prize launched
- ILF Day theme announced
- Wombat Books launches writing prize for teens
- World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
- Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year
- Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
- Wiley acquires Edwards’ The Wardrobe Project
- A&U acquires new crime novel from Brown
- S&S acquires Kitching’s next thriller
- Papercuts Comics Festival announces program
- Pryor awarded 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- The Bookshop opens in Colac
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- New year 2026 preview: Nonfiction
- Publishers reaching across borders at Sharjah
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- New year 2026 preview: CYA
- Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country
- Amplify Bookstore 5 years in: “a little beyond ourselves”
- Kay Kerr on “Might Cry Later”
- Junior Book Club – holiday reads
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?
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Publishers’ top picks: Australian fiction
- Global Book Crawl a ‘success’ in Australia
- Mother’s Day recommendations from B+P reviewers
- Who’s eating publishers’ lunch? The rising costs and shrinking margins of Australian books
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
Top Junior stories
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Misfit: The Unravelling of Samantha X (Amanda Goff, Echo), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
- (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
- (young_adult): For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (fiction): Left Behind (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (fiction): Lyrebird (Jane Caro, A&U), stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (picture_book): Naynay and the Mermaid (Tasma Walton, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by A Kirk
- (fiction): The Farm (Jessica Mansour-Nahra, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder (Tim Winton, illus Cindy Lane, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Caitlin Hadrill
- (younger_readers): The Making of Martha Mayfield (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Tenille White
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (nonfiction): The Man Who Planted Canberra (Robert Macklin, NLA), stars, reviewed by Michael Kitson
- (younger_readers): Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Kathryn Wheaton Grierson
- (fiction): He Would Never (Holly Wainwright, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Alida Galati
- (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
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland