Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- UK’s CMA clears Bertelsmann’s S&S acquisition
- Brio Books becomes part of Booktopia
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- Booksellers’ Choice 2021 Book of the Year Awards shortlists announced
- Google bans ebooks on Shopping ads
- Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced
- EWF 2021 program announced
- Creative Victoria announces latest VicArts recipients
- Affirm acquires ‘After Australia’ companion anthology
- Gilligan wins Ondaatje Prize for ‘The Butchers’
Top stories over the past month
- ‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
- S&S US to publish Pence books despite staff petition
- S&S acquires El Masry body inclusive wellbeing guide
- Ivers appointed HarperCollins commercial fiction & nonfiction publisher
- Kellow elected APA president, new committee members elected
- Macky, Ballantyne to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; ABIA business awards shortlists announced
- Vogel Award 2021 shortlist announced, winner announced today
- S&S acquires Mahoney’s ‘Currently Between Husbands’
- Hughes-d’Aeth to head new UWAP advisory board
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Hachette announces paid summer internship program
- First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count research commences
- Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
- CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
- Guidelines for $75m RISE and $35m Arts Sustainability funds released
- ABDA 2020 winners announced
- NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
- PRH acquires Doyle’s ‘Echolalia’
- Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 shortlists announced
- NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
Top stories since 1 January 2021
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced
- Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- ‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year
- Stella Prize 2021 longlist announced
- ABIA 2021 longlists announced
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- PRH acquires debut romantic comedy ‘The Matchmaker’
- Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
- ABIA 2021 shortlists announced
- Full Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program announced
- ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ wins 2021 Indie Book of the Year
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
- Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Meg Whelan
- Chrissy Brincat on interning at UQP
- Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Isabelle O’Brien
- Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2021: Bianca Jafari
- 50 years of publishing in Australia: Hachette looks back
- Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’
- Sophie Overett on ‘The Rabbits’
- June reviews round-up
- The rights approach: Australians on rights sales in Italy
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- The unequal impact of Covid-19 on publishers
- The golden age of middle-grade
- Sales down but community spirit up: Melbourne booksellers enter second lockdown
- Sensitive subjects: The value of sensitivity reading
- Debut fiction you might have missed in 2020
- Glowing up: Claire Christian on ‘It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake’
- Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Akiko Chan
- Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
- A Christmas message to European bookshops
- From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Hachette acquires Temple middle-grade series
- The Incredibly Busy Mind of Bowen Bartholomew Crisp (Paul Russell & Nicky Johnston, EK Books)
- Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’
- Coco, the Fish with Hands: Endangered Animal Tales 1 (Aleesah Darlison, illus by Mel Matthews, Puffin)
- Echo in the Memory (Cameron Nunn, Walker Books)
- Henry Hamlet’s Heart (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP)
- The Story of Australia: For the young (and the curious) (Don Watson, Black Inc.)
- Rainfish (Andrew Paterson, Text)
- The Cat Thief (Pat Simmons, illus by Liz Duthie, Little Pink Dog Books)
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
- NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
- CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
- ILF to hold Indigenous Literacy Day YouTube event
- Kamaleddine’s ‘The Truth About Luck’ wins inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Walker launches biannual ‘Walker Wednesday’ to discover new writers
- Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala)
- This One is Ours (Kate O’Donnell, UQP)
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (younger_readers): Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner
- (fiction): All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (young_adult): This One is Ours (Kate O’Donnell, UQP), stars, reviewed by Mischa Parkee
- (nonfiction): Soar: A life freed by dance (David McAllister, Thames & Hudson), stars, reviewed by Nathan Smith
- (nonfiction): Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave (Mark Mordue, Fourth Estate), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (fiction): Rural Dreams (Margaret Hickey, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (picture_book): Wolfred (Nick Bland, Hardie Grant Egmont), stars, reviewed by Bronte Coates
- (picture_book): Found (Bruce Pascoe, illus by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): The Hunted (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (young_adult): The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
- (fiction): It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake (Claire Christian, Text), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (picture_book): Piper Picks the Perfect Pet (Caroline Tuohey, illus by Nicky Johnston, Ford St), stars, reviewed by Thuy On
- (young_adult): The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U), stars, reviewed by Tehani Croft
- (picture_book): Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (nonfiction): Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP), stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (fiction): New Animal (Ella Baxter, A&U), stars, reviewed by Georgia Brough
- (nonfiction): Loss Adjustment (Linda Collins, Awa Press), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (nonfiction): Into the Suburbs: A migrant’s story (Christopher Raja, UQP), stars, reviewed by Daniel Nour
- (younger_readers): Lola Online: #TheSecretUpstairsFanClubParty (Shannan & Tayla Stedman, Omnibus), stars, reviewed by Katie Haydon
- (fiction): Love Objects (Emily Maguire, A&U), stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh