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Most read news and features over the past seven days
- Hachette “working around the clock” to restore distribution systems after unauthorised activity
- Queensland Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2026 longlist announced
- Simon & Schuster unveils Simon Stream website, ebook royalties
- Lily and Hugo’s children’s bookstore to open in Sunbury
- Eugen Bacon on “Crimson in Quietus”
- “Books endure” at BookUp: The risks and rewards of taking our time
- Leading Edge creditors meeting called; “high volume” of ABA buying group enquiries
- Allen & Unwin acquires “The Vatican Files”
- Davitt Awards 2026 shortlists announced
Most read news and features over the past month
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- Australian Publishers Association Graphic Novel Editing Intensive announced
- Frankfurt Book Fair to close Hall 6
- Hardie Grant to integrate Pantera Press titles across imprints, staff to depart
- Leading Edge enters administration
- Books Kinokuniya to open first Melbourne store
- Varuna to launch new venue, public program
- Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize longlist announced
- Hachette “working around the clock” to restore distribution systems after unauthorised activity
- Industry bodies welcome prime minister’s comments on AI and copyright
Most read stories over the past 12 months
- Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
- Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut
- Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
- ILF Day theme announced
- Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year
- World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- S&S acquires Kitching’s next thriller
- Papercuts Comics Festival announces program
- Pryor awarded 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant
Most read news and features since 1 January 2026
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- CBCA announces 2026 book week theme
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- Australian Publishers Association Graphic Novel Editing Intensive announced
- “Tori Woods” found guilty
- UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Silvey charged over child exploitation material
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
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- local news
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- features
Most read features
Most read feature articles over the past month
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- Lily and Hugo’s children’s bookstore to open in Sunbury
- Eugen Bacon on “Crimson in Quietus”
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- “Books endure” at BookUp: The risks and rewards of taking our time
- Tim Ayliffe on “Web of Spies”
- Meet the Rising Stars: Annie Zhang
- Meet the Rising Stars: Alisa Ahmed
- Tim Ayliffe recommends
- “Only an oligarch could afford it”: Booksellers Aotearoa’s Renee Rowland on selling at RRP
Most read feature articles over the past 12 months
- Call for submissions: A how-to guide for responding to government
- Recommended reads for Father’s Day
- Bayt Al-Hikma: the first library in the Islamic world
- NielsenIQ Brazil reports encouraging market growth, colouring book trend
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers
- Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini: Communities need a library
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
- Books on the Rail’s Ali and Michelle in conversation
- ‘Cultural pillage’: The Australian literary community responds to Meanjin’s closure
Most read rights news stories
Most read stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- Bakers Lane Books acquires “Alice Comes Home” by Helen M Jones
- Hachette to publish CFMEU exposé by Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders
- A&U acquires Mark Tedeschi’s “The Gentleman Bushranger”
- Allen & Unwin acquires “Bullyproof” by Matt Purcell
- Allen & Unwin acquires Sue Williams historical novel “Macarthur’s Daughters”
- Allen & Unwin acquires debut romantasy trilogy by Claire Benson
- Allen & Unwin acquires “The Vatican Files”
- UWA Publishing acquires Georgie Harriss autofiction “Perpetual Stew”
- Allen & Unwin acquires Joan Fleming’s debut novel “The Fig Book”
Most read reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (fiction): Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (Clare Stephens, Atlantic), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjajamuwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika (Solomon Cocky, ed Barbara Hale & Inge Kral, UWA Publishing), stars, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum
- (picture_book): Naynay and the Mermaid (Tasma Walton, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by A Kirk
- (fiction): Left Behind (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (young_adult): For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (picture_book): Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder (Tim Winton, illus Cindy Lane, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Caitlin Hadrill
- (fiction): A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (young_adult): What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (younger_readers): Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Kathryn Wheaton Grierson
- (nonfiction): Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth), stars, reviewed by Ellie Pope
- (picture_book): Between (Anna Walker, Scribble), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (young_adult): A Murder is Going Down (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (fiction): The One Remaining (Paula McLean, Fearless Press), stars, reviewed by Ananya Thirumalai
- (fiction): Gravity Let Me Go (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Vanessa Pengelly
- (fiction): Chosen Family (Madeleine Gray, Summit Books), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
- (nonfiction): Riots (Fiona Skyring, UWA Publishing), stars, reviewed by Nashin Mahee
- (picture_book): Here Come the Cousins (Maggie Hutchings, illus Sarah Zweck, T&H), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala