Top stories
Top stories this week
- Report says up to 60 Big W stores could close
- ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins Book of the Year at 2019 Indie Book Awards
- Whitcoulls pulls Peterson’s ‘12 Rules for Life’
- PRH, Text, Matilda Bookshop and Farrell’s Bookshop awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference
- CBCA Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals shortlists announced
- Kinokuniya’s oldest Asian store outside of Japan to close
- Forthcoming Wood novel sold to US, UK
- Red Room Poetry expands Poetry in First Languages schools program to QLD, NT, ACT
- Scribe acquires debut novel by Horton
Top stories over the past month
- Stella Prize 2019 shortlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- PRH to collectively bargain with editorial, publicity staff
- Garner honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
- Report says up to 60 Big W stores could close
- Ball to join S&S as Scribner publishing director
- MUP appoints new directors, editorial advisory board
- LBF International Excellence Awards winners announced
- ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins Book of the Year at 2019 Indie Book Awards
- ABIA 2019 longlists announced
Top stories over the past year
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- 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
- Ball departs PRH
- Bonnier Publishing to restructure Australian publishing arm; 35 staff redundancies announced
Top stories in 2017
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- 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- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript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
- 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
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Pan Macmillan signs two-book deal with debut YA author Guillaume
- Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
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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): Girltopia (Hilary Rogers, Scholastic), 4 stars, reviewed by Natalie Crawford
- (younger_readers): A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U), 5 stars, reviewed by Phil Lesnie
- (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
- (nonfiction): Any Ordinary Day (Leigh Sales, Hamish Hamilton), 4 stars, reviewed by Lorien Kaye
- (fiction): The Nowhere Child (Christian White, Affirm Press), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (fiction): Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Doug Wallen
- (picture_book): Cicada (Shaun Tan, Lothian), 5 stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Four ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
- CBCA 2019 Notable Books announced
- SLV ‘retires’ Centre for Youth Literature
- CBCA Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Inky Awards 2019 longlists announced
- A&U acquires new Anh Do children’s books in three-series deal
- Affirm focuses on children’s/YA manuscripts in 2019 mentorship award
- Redgum to launch ‘full-service’ schools program
- Living the fantasy: Lynette Noni’s career path
- Storylines announces notable NZ children’s books for 2019
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- The Little Bookroom opens ‘big sister’ bookshop in Northcote
- Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 shortlists announced
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- ‘Nevermoor’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced
- ‘Amelia Westlake’ sells into US
- Lush announced as SWF head of children’s & YA programs
- CBCA Awards 2018 shortlists announced