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Top stories over the past seven days
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
- Forster to leave Curtis Brown
- Paul appointed A&U head of operations
- Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced
- Taylor & Francis AI deals to earn ‘additional royalties for authors’, ASA ‘deeply concerned’
- Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced
- Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships
- Bowie, Burland and Byfield appointed to ILF board
- UK report: Half of adults not reading regularly
- ‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
Top stories over the past month
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
- Wright wins 2024 ALS Gold Medal
- Miles Franklin 2024 shortlist announced
- Booktopia administrators identify $60 million in debt
- Hachette appoints Naoum as publishing director, promotes Collett
- Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 longlist announced
- APA pauses Educational Publishing Awards
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
- Around 200 jobs to go at T&F
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Top stories since 1 January 2024
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
- Former Hachette Livre CEO launches publisher, partners with S&S
- S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
- Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced
- Booktopia requests extension to voluntary trading suspension as it seeks funding
- Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
- ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024
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Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 nonfiction
- Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 fiction
- Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 biographies and memoirs
- Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 children’s books
- Meet the Rising Stars 2024: Justin Wolfers
- Robbie Egan: ‘A centralised ecommerce platform … would be transformative’
- Meet the Rising Stars: Katherine Rajwar
- Meet the Rising Stars: Rebecca Allen
- Meet the Rising Stars: Riikka Dunn
- Arnold opens Ladyhawke bookshop in Ivanhoe
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Angourie Rice and Kate Rice on ‘Stuck Up & Stupid’
- AI: The next, best editorial tool?
- Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
- Listen up: How booksellers are getting in on the audiobook boom
- Explainer: What are the costs and considerations of making audiobooks?
- Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
- Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
- Rising Stars on AI
- ‘I wanted to make a meaningful impact’: Reflections from the 2023 Open Book interns
- Sharlene Allsopp on ‘The Great Undoing’
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Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (young_adult): If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next (Jack Heath, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (fiction): The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U), stars, reviewed by Anne Barneston
- (picture_book): Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures (Timothy Ide, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
- (fiction): Days of Innocence and Wonder (Lucy Treloar, Picador), stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (fiction): A Woman of Courage (Tania Blanchard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Anna Loder
- (fiction): Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (younger_readers): Kimmi: Queen of the dingoes (Favel Parrett, illus Astred Hicks, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s songs reimagined (ed by Kirsten Krauth, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Megan Koch
- (nonfiction): Meatsmith (Andrew McConnell & Troy Wheeler, Hardie Grant), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Eighteen Summers (Penny Harrison, illus Leila Rudge, Little Hare), stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (picture_book): Hunter on Holiday: A Big Trip Around Europe (Jessica and Stephen Parry-Valentine, illus Ashlee Spink, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Phil Lesnie
- (nonfiction): Big Mouth (Matt Preston, Viking), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (nonfiction): Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP), stars, reviewed by Becca Whitehead
- (younger_readers): Fluff: Bullies Beware (Matt Stanton, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Penguin Oh Penguin (Gladys Milroy, illus Helen Milroy, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
- (nonfiction): A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (younger_readers): Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin
- (picture_book): Good Night, Good Beach (Joy Cowley, illus Hilary Jean Tapper, Gecko Press), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (nonfiction): Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc.), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (younger_readers): Lani and the Universe (Victoria Carless, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin