Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Ryan resigns from PRH
- HarperCollins acquires Pung, Ng children’s books
- ‘Honeybee’ named Dymocks Book of the Year 2020
- Day wins Patrick White Literary Award
- Red Ventures acquires Lonely Planet
- UQP acquires new Neave novel
- Walker acquires Uhlmann picture book
- Masson appointed SPN chair, Webster steps down
- Southern-Reid wins Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award 2020
- First writers announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week 2021
Top stories over the past month
- Hardie Grant Children’s launches new illustrated imprint
- Radnidge takes on literary at Hachette, Hazard to head new lifestyle list
- Bertelsmann to acquire S&S
- Pan Macmillan ‘finalising contractual relationship’ with Evans
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- Morris-Marr’s ‘Fallen’ wins 2020 Walkley Book Award
- Ryan resigns from PRH
- Australian First Nations and People of Colour in Publishing Network launched
- Wright resigns from PRH
- Dymocks Book of the Year 2020 shortlist announced
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced
- Redundancies expected as Lonely Planet reduces global publishing operations; Melbourne office to close ‘almost entirely’
- ABA asks publishers for support during Covid-19 outbreak
- ABA launches new website as authors, booksellers and publishers adapt to business under lockdown
- More than half of authors paid below standard rates for appearances, according to ASA rates tracker
- Redundancies at Hardie Grant, Scribe; T&H reduces staff hours temporarily
- Bertrams future ‘at risk’
- Publish or postpone? Which titles are being delayed due to Covid-19
- Hachette announces paid summer internship program
- Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
Top stories since 1 January 2020
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced
- Redundancies expected as Lonely Planet reduces global publishing operations; Melbourne office to close ‘almost entirely’
- ABA asks publishers for support during Covid-19 outbreak
- ABA launches new website as authors, booksellers and publishers adapt to business under lockdown
- More than half of authors paid below standard rates for appearances, according to ASA rates tracker
- Redundancies at Hardie Grant, Scribe; T&H reduces staff hours temporarily
- Bertrams future ‘at risk’
- Publish or postpone? Which titles are being delayed due to Covid-19
- Hachette announces paid summer internship program
- Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2020 announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
- ABA conference, BookUp postponed
- ABIA 2020 longlists announced
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
- A new leaf: 2021 nonfiction preview
- Meet Hachette Australia head of rights Sarah Brooks
- Reviews round-up
- Publishing’s meritocracy myth
- Art work: Fiona McGregor on ‘Buried Not Dead’
- A window on the world: Stephanie Smee’s career journey
- Lessons from the past: Lorraine Marwood on ‘Footprints on the Moon’
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Australian bookshops respond to Covid-19
- ‘Changes start small’: Behind the union push at PRH
- The bookseller’s dilemma: What bookstores won’t stock
- Why are booksellers leaving Leading Edge?
- Will Covid-19 permanently change the book industry?
- ‘Books that matter and books that sell’: Industry predictions for 2020
- The unequal impact of Covid-19 on publishers
- Ten rules for successful remote working
- What we’ll be reading in 2020
- Fullers Bookshop celebrates 100 years of Hobart bookselling
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
- HarperCollins acquires Pung, Ng children’s books
- CBCA restructures board, confirms 2021 Book Week theme
- The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U)
- Gay YA rom-com wins 2020 Ampersand Prize
- S&S to publish Kerr children’s series and World Cup diary
- Iceberg (Claire Saxby, illus by Jess Racklyeft, A&U)
- Walker acquires Uhlmann picture book
- Beneath the Trees (Cristy Burne, Fremantle Press)
- Wakefield acquires Webster’s ‘That Thing I Did’
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
- CBCA 2020 Notable Books announced
- Readings Children’s Book Prize 2020 shortlist announced
- CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
- NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
- Aussie picture books to feature in Bologna nonfiction exhibition
- Walker launches biannual ‘Walker Wednesday’ to discover new writers
- Foxlee, Cai, Tan longlisted for 2020 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
- CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (picture_book): Respect (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner
- (fiction): Stone Sky Gold Mountain (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (nonfiction): The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system (Patrick Mullins, Scribe), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (young_adult): The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (fiction): Mammoth (Chris Flynn, UQP), stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (younger_readers): The Year the Maps Changed (Danielle Binks, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (fiction): Sheerwater (Leah Swann, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Carody Culver
- (picture_book): Who’s Your Real Mum? (Bernadette Green, illus by Anna Zobel, Scribble), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): The Adversary (Ronnie Scott, Hamish Hamilton), stars, reviewed by Nathan Smith
- (young_adult): How to Grow a Family Tree (Eliza Henry Jones, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (nonfiction): Father of the Lost Boys (Yuot A Alaak, Fremantle Press), stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (fiction): All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (picture_book): Mum’s Elephant (Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe, illus by Christina Booth, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Bronte Coates
- (fiction): The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (younger_readers): The January Stars (Kate Constable, A&U), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (picture_book): All Bodies are Good Bodies (Charlotte Barkla, Little Hare), 4 stars, reviewed by Thuy On
- (fiction): A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (Jessie Tu, A&U), stars, reviewed by Sydnye Allen
- (fiction): The Hunted (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (young_adult): Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal (Anna Whateley, A&U), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (young_adult): Please Don’t Hug Me (Kay Kerr, Text), stars, reviewed by Charlotte Guest