Top stories
Top stories this week
- Antigny, Narayan to join Pantera Press
- Hachette acquires Byrne’s book on family history
- Gomez leaves PRH
- Full program announced for 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas Weekend
- PRH withdraws ebooks from unlimited subscription platforms
- #AuthorsForFireys raises $486,600 for bushfire relief
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2020 shortlist announced
- Booktopia launches $5k Favourite Australian Book award
- Gannon’s ‘The Mothers’ sold to US, optioned for TV
- NewSouth acquires van Zweden’s memoir
Top stories over the past month
- Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
- Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding round recipients
- Antigny, Narayan to join Pantera Press
- Hachette acquires Byrne’s book on family history
- UWAP staff given six-month extensions; university to reconsider publishing model
- Indie Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- Book sales value down three percent in 2019: Nielsen
- Gomez leaves PRH
- Full program announced for 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas Weekend
- Wilson appointed Berbay sales and marketing manager
Top stories over the past year
- Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
- ‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
- Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
- University of Sydney won’t appoint new chair of Australian literature
- Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale
- Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
- Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced
Top stories in 2017
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
- ‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript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
- Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
- Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
- University of Sydney won’t appoint new chair of Australian literature
- Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale
- Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
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Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (fiction): Shirl (Wayne Marshall, Affirm), 4 stars, reviewed by Myles McGuire
- (nonfiction): Blueberries (Ellena Savage, Text), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Charlotte Guest
- (fiction): There Was Still Love (Favel Parrett, Hachette), 5 stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (nonfiction): Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion (Robert Tickner, Scribe), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (nonfiction): The Medicine: A doctor’s notes (Karen Hitchcock, Black Inc.), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (fiction): Cherry Beach (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text), 4 stars, reviewed by Carody Culver
- (fiction): In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette), 4 stars, reviewed by Simon McDonald
- (fiction): Fauna (Donna Mazza, A&U), 4 stars, reviewed by Anne Barnetson
- (fiction): Bird (Adam Morris, Puncher & Wattmann), 4 stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (nonfiction): Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China won’t map the future (Rory Medcalf, La Trobe University Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Chris Saliba
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- CBCA, Little Bookroom organise book drives for bushfire-affected children
- A&U acquires ANZ rights to Marney’s new YA novel
- Adaptation of Winton’s ‘Blueback’ gets Screen Aus funding
- PRH sells ‘The Tiny Star’ to US
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- ‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
- ‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
- Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
- ‘All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors’ sold to US, Canada
- Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2019 White Ravens list
- Walker acquires middle-grade novels from Pamela Rushby, Allison Rushby
- A&U acquires new Anh Do children’s books in three-series deal