Top stories
Top stories this week
- Copyright Agency launches legal action against universities
- Scribe sells Giggs’ ‘Fathoms’ to US in record deal
- Amazon’s AbeBooks backflips after booksellers protest
- Voss Literary Prize 2018 shortlist announced
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 winners announced
- KOALAs 2018 winners announced
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 winners announced
- Walkley Book Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Brazilian publishers seek to intervene to save leading retailers from closure
- ‘Florette’ named on 2018 NYT/NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books list
Top stories over the past month
- Samuel Wagan Watson wins 2018 Patrick White Literary Award
- Queensland Literary Awards 2018 winners announced
- First authors announced for 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week
- First authors announced for 2019 Perth Festival Writers Week
- Copyright Agency launches legal action against universities
- McIver wins 2018 Richell Prize for ‘I Shot the Devil’
- Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India
- Leigh wins 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
- Scribe sells Giggs’ ‘Fathoms’ to US in record deal
- Shortlist announced for 2018 Diagram Prize for oddest book title
Top stories over the past year
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced
- Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris
- Ball departs PRH
Top stories in 2017
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- ‘The Chaser’s’ Andrew Hansen and wife Jessica Roberts sign two-book deal with Walker Books
- Echo to publish Jabour’s debut novel ‘The Way Things Should Be’
- HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal
- CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- Pan Macmillan signs two-book deal with debut YA author Guillaume
- Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced
(Categories used: local news, international news, library news, international library news)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia (Marcia Langton, Hardie Grant), 4 stars, reviewed by Karen Wyld
- (younger_readers): A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U), 5 stars, reviewed by Phil Lesnie
- (younger_readers): Girltopia (Hilary Rogers, Scholastic), 4 stars, reviewed by Natalie Crawford
- (fiction): Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U), 5 stars, reviewed by Scott Whitmont
- (fiction): A Superior Spectre (Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop), 5 stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (fiction): The Love That I Have (James Moloney, HarperCollins), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (picture_book): Cicada (Shaun Tan, Lothian), 5 stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): The Nowhere Child (Christian White, Affirm Press), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (fiction): The Shepherd’s Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton), 5 stars, reviewed by Scott Whitmont
- (fiction): Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Doug Wallen
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- New specialist kids agency launched
- Australian children’s books shortlisted for Japan’s Sakura Medal
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 winners announced
- Australians nominated for 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals
- YABBAs 2018 winners announced
- KOALAs 2018 winners announced
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 winners announced
- ‘Florette’ named on 2018 NYT/NYPL Best Illustrated Children’s Books list
- Australian Family Therapists’ Award for children’s literature 2018 winners announced
- ‘Real Pigeons’ series sold to US in three-book deal
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris
- The Little Bookroom opens ‘big sister’ bookshop in Northcote
- Indie Book Awards 2018 shortlist announced
- Walker Books to publish middle-grade fiction book by Zoe Norton Lodge and sister Georgia
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 shortlists announced
- Gleitzman announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2018-19
- CBCA Notable Books for 2018 announced
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
- ‘Nevermoor’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced