Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- Ned Kelly Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Davitt Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and Writing WA announce partnership festival
- RAFFWU reports in principle agreement with BRTD
- MWF 2021 full program launched
- PRH acquires Chadderton middle-grade graphic novel
- New Collins store Our Bookshop to open in Hawksburn
- Scholastic sales down 13%
- Taylor, Wasley receive 2022 KSP residencies
Top stories over the past month
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- S&S acquires two McAlister rom-coms
- Hardie Grant announces new board, buyout of founding investor
- ‘Future Girl’ wins 2021 Readings YA book prize
- Better Read Than Dead workers vote for industrial action; authors sign open letter in support
- Text Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- Lohrey wins 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award for ‘The Labyrinth’
- Rusher departs Hachette
- ‘Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow’ series optioned for TV
- A&U, Upswell, UQP among Cultural Fund recipients
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Hachette announces paid summer internship program
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- Guidelines for $75m RISE and $35m Arts Sustainability funds released
- Create NSW funding recipients announced; future of Writing NSW ‘at risk’
- NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
- ABDA 2020 winners announced
- Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
- CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
- NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
- Ngaio Marsh Award 2020 shortlists announced
Top stories since 1 January 2021
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced
- Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- ‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
- Civica library index: Australians turn to local fiction during pandemic
- Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- Stella Prize 2021 longlist announced
- ABIA 2021 longlists announced
- Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Christmas in July
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Edinburgh’s Typewronger Books
- Diana Reid on ‘Love & Virtue’
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Quebec’s Librairie Hannenorak
- Samantha Rutter on founding new publisher Storytorch during Covid
- Christmas in July: children’s and YA
- Max Easton on ‘The Magpie Wing’
- Poppy Nwosu on ‘Road Tripping with Pearl Nash’
- August reviews round-up
- Annie Raser-Rowland on ‘Let’s Eat Weeds!’
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Glowing up: Claire Christian on ‘It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake’
- Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Akiko Chan
- Debut fiction you might have missed in 2020
- Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Vanessa Masci
- Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
- Q&A with Dymocks CEO Mark Newman
- A Christmas message to European bookshops
- From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Kraków’s Massolit Books
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Text Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- ‘Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow’ series optioned for TV
- Samantha Rutter on founding new publisher Storytorch during Covid
- ABC Kids to publish Teeny Tiny Stevies picture books
- Christmas in July: children’s and YA
- PRH acquires Chadderton middle-grade graphic novel
- The Song of Lewis Carmichael (Sofie Laguna, illus by Marc McBride, A&U)
- Anything But Fine (Tobias Madden, Penguin)
- self/less (AViVA, Macmillan)
- Road Tripping with Pearl Nash (Poppy Nwosu, Wakefield)
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
- CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
- NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
- ILF to hold Indigenous Literacy Day YouTube event
- Kamaleddine’s ‘The Truth About Luck’ wins inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala)
- This One is Ours (Kate O’Donnell, UQP)
- Wolfred (Nick Bland, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (younger_readers): Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner
- (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
- (fiction): All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (picture_book): Wolfred (Nick Bland, Hardie Grant Egmont), stars, reviewed by Bronte Coates
- (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
- (fiction): Rural Dreams (Margaret Hickey, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (nonfiction): Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave (Mark Mordue, Fourth Estate), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (young_adult): The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
- (nonfiction): Loss Adjustment (Linda Collins, Awa Press), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (nonfiction): Who Gets to be Smart (Bri Lee, A&U), stars, reviewed by Kim Thomson
- (young_adult): The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U), stars, reviewed by Tehani Croft
- (fiction): Infinite Splendours (Sofie Laguna, A&U), stars, reviewed by Adam Ford
- (young_adult): Future Girl (Asphyxia, A&U), stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (picture_book): Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): New Animal (Ella Baxter, A&U), stars, reviewed by Georgia Brough
- (younger_readers): Aussie STEM Stars: Fiona Wood (Cristy Burne, Wild Dingo Press), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (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