Top stories
Top stories this week
- Richell Prize 2019 longlist announced
- Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Australian Centre Literary Awards 2019 winners announced
- Winners of the Ned Kelly Awards 2019 announced
- MWF reports strong box office takings; Ben Folds tops bestseller chart
- Hardie Grant Egmont to release new Billie B Brown books to celebrate 10 years
- Clarke, Dovey among Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship recipients
- Foulcher wins 2019 ACU poetry prize
- The Children’s Bookshop to close in November
Top stories over the past month
- Meyer to leave Echo
- Richell Prize 2019 longlist announced
- Copyright Agency announces recipients of $500k in funding grants
- Educational Publishing Awards 2019 winners announced
- Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
- Hachette appoints Adler publisher at large
- Readings announces 2019 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
- Amazon breaks Atwood embargo in US
- US publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Top stories over the past year
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- 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
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
- Spencer wins 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for ‘The Age of Fibs’
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
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- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript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
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- 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
- ‘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
- Black Inc. to end ‘Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems’; announces new collection
(Categories used: local news, international news, library news, international library news)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): On Drugs (Chris Fleming, Giramondo), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (younger_readers): Stella the Unstoppable: The Talent Show Fiasco (Richard Newsome, Affirm), 3 stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (picture_book): My Culture and Me (Gregg Dreise, Puffin), 4 stars, reviewed by Cassie Lynch
- (picture_book): Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog), 4 stars, reviewed by Karen Wyld
- (fiction): Fusion (Kate Richards, Hamish Hamilton), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (young_adult): Catch a Falling Star (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books), 4 stars, reviewed by Tehani Croft
- (young_adult): You Must Be Layla (Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Penguin), 3 stars, reviewed by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
- (fiction): Into the Fire (Sonia Orchard, Affirm Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Hilary Simmons
- (picture_book): Midnight at the Library (Ursula Dubosarsky illus by Ron Brooks, NLA), 5 stars, reviewed by Margaret Hamilton
- (nonfiction): Accidental Feminists (Jane Caro, MUP), 3 stars, reviewed by Melissa Cranenburgh
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Hardie Grant Egmont to release new Billie B Brown books to celebrate 10 years
- Noni, Black win 2019 Inky Awards
- ‘My Pet Star’ named Sainsbury’s Children’s Book of the Year 2019
- Walker to distribute new UK children’s publisher in ANZ
- Hardie Grant Egmont sells ‘Welcome to Your Period’ to four territories
- Scribble sells Bell and Colpoys picture books in first German deal
- Fremantle sells ‘Antarctica’ picture book to US
- ‘The Secret Runners of New York’ tops July YA bestsellers chart
- Puffin grants in New Zealand
- Place of exchange: Jane Stratton on Lost in Books
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- CBCA Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Hachette signs international deal for three new ‘Nevermoor’ books; details for book 3 announced
- New specialist kids agency launched
- Vivas to join Hardie Grant Egmont as publisher
- A&U acquires new Anh Do children’s books in three-series deal
- New database to celebrate diversity in children’s books