Top stories
Top stories this week
- Educational Publishing Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Davitt Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Hachette acquires VPLA winner in ‘competitive’ auction
- LoveOzYA relaunches with new committee
- Inky Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Canberra Writers Festival 2019 program launched
- Crime writers condemn Staunch Prize after organisers suggest thrillers could ‘bias jurors’
- Two women awarded Japan’s top literary awards
- Pearson shifts to digital-first model
- Ferns appointed HarperCollins NZ general manager
Top stories over the past month
- PRH issues editor ‘first and final warning’; MEAA alleges ‘discriminatory’ conduct
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
- Over 300 booksellers encouraged to ‘change the narrative’ at upbeat ABA conference
- Hachette acquires middle-grade, YA novels by Binks
- Educational Publishing Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 shortlists announced
- 2019 ABA conference: value, volume down YTD; HR, sales discussed
- Thames & Hudson to open Sydney office; Heath to join as associate publisher
- UK survey finds that older women feel misrepresented in fiction
- A&U acquires ‘fierce’ literary debut
Top stories over the past year
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
- Samuel Wagan Watson wins 2018 Patrick White Literary Award
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
- Amazon to merge CreateSpace and KDP
Top stories in 2017
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript
- ‘The Chaser’s’ Andrew Hansen and wife Jessica Roberts sign two-book deal with Walker Books
- HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal
- Echo to publish Jabour’s debut novel ‘The Way Things Should Be’
- CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Pan Macmillan signs two-book deal with debut YA author Guillaume
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
(Categories used: local news, international news, library news, international library news)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Any Ordinary Day (Leigh Sales, Hamish Hamilton), 4 stars, reviewed by Lorien Kaye
- (young_adult): Everything I’ve Never Said (Samantha Wheeler, UQP), 4 stars, reviewed by MH Alessandrino
- (fiction): Bridge of Clay (Markus Zusak, Picador), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Simon McDonald
- (nonfiction): Boys Will Be Boys (Clementine Ford, A&U), 4 stars, reviewed by Heath Graham
- (younger_readers): Stella the Unstoppable: The Talent Show Fiasco (Richard Newsome, Affirm), 3 stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (younger_readers): The Truth App: Liars Book One (Jack Heath, Scholastic), 4 stars, reviewed by Heath Graham
- (young_adult): Girl Running, Boy Falling (Kate Gordon, Rhiza Edge), 4 stars, reviewed by Katie Haydon
- (nonfiction): Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp (David Sornig, Scribe), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Oliver Driscoll
- (fiction): Fusion (Kate Richards, Hamish Hamilton), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (picture_book): My Culture and Me (Gregg Dreise, Puffin), 4 stars, reviewed by Cassie Lynch
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Is YA okay?: The state of Australian young adult literature
- LoveOzYA relaunches with new committee
- Inky Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Dr Karl returns to ABC Books in three-book deal
- ‘Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas’ to be read for National Simultaneous Storytime 2020
- UK Society of Authors launches £5000 prize for illustrated children’s books
- Black Inc. to publish ‘creative’ Thunberg bio; sells rights to S&S UK
- Blabey tops NYT bestseller charts
- Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to Love Your Body
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- Lush announced as SWF head of children’s & YA programs
- Hachette signs international deal for three new ‘Nevermoor’ books; details for book 3 announced
- New specialist kids agency launched
- CBCA Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- ‘Alex Rider’ books to be adapted into YA drama series
- Vivas to join Hardie Grant Egmont as publisher
- New database to celebrate diversity in children’s books