Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Ned Kelly Awards 2022 shortlists announced
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2022 shortlists announced
- Jackson’s ‘Human Looking’ wins ALS Gold Medal
- Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
- HarperCollins acquires Mordue novel, second Cave biography
- Hachette acquires Dunn debut novel
- S&S acquires MAFS star Robinson’s memoir
- Inaugural Deep Creek residency recipient announced
- Mortimer wins 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize
- Royal Societies of ANZ partner on $10,000 writing award
Top stories over the past month
- Canada’s Indigo Books sales up 17.4% in 2022
- ‘Love & Virtue’ wins ABIA book of the year 2022
- Hughes apologises for plagiarism in Miles Franklin-longlisted novel
- ‘The Dogs’ removed from Miles Franklin longlist, White says Hughes breached trust
- Penguin Literary Prize 2022 winner announced
- Miles Franklin 2022 shortlist announced
- Australia Council announces New York Publishers’ Program, Translation Fund recipients
- A&U announces mentorship program with Voices from the Intersection
- Authors, industry figures recognised in 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Australia Council latest funding announced
Top stories over the past 12 months
- ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
- Ned Kelly Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Folio Books announces closure
- CBCA 2022 Notable Books announced
- Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Top stories since 1 January 2022
- ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
- CBCA 2022 Notable Books announced
- Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced
- Floods devastate Lismore Library, Book Warehouse
- Canada’s Indigo Books sales up 17.4% in 2022
- Stella Prize 2022 longlist announced
- CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- Stella Prize 2022 shortlist announced
- Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 longlists announced
- Newbery, Caldecott 2022 winners announced
- 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced
- ‘In the Clearing’ to become Disney+ drama series
- ABIA 2022 longlists announced
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Books yule love: 2022 Christmas fiction
- Open Book intern Bohdi Byles on cracking open the book industry
- Grace Heifetz: insights from the Open Book pilot program
- Books yule love: 2022 Christmas nonfiction
- ABA conference 2022: diversity, sustainability discussed—in person
- Books in the media this weekend, 18–19 June
- Books yule love: 2022 Christmas children’s and young adult
- Tobias Madden recommends
- Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2022: Mika Tabata
- Books in the media this weekend, 11–12 June
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Diana Reid on ‘Love & Virtue’
- Christmas in July
- Annie Raser-Rowland on ‘Let’s Eat Weeds!’
- How international book markets performed in 2021
- #BookTok 101: Your guide to a major new force in publishing
- Stories we tell: 2022 fiction preview
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Angoulême’s La librairie de la bande dessinée et de l’image
- Reality bites: 2022 nonfiction preview
- ‘The lost dog poster’: designers on book covers in 2021
- Jennifer Down on ‘Bodies of Light’
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- A&U announces mentorship program with Voices from the Intersection
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2022 shortlists announced
- Honour Among Ghosts (Sean Williams, A&U)
- A Little Spark (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
- Books yule love: 2022 Christmas children’s and young adult
- Dirt by Sea (Michael Wagner, illus by Tom Jellett, Puffin)
- Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text)
- Be Careful, Xiao Xin! (Alice Pung, illus by Sher Rill Ng, Working Title Press)
- Birdbrain (Kelli Anne Hawkins, HarperCollins)
- Naturopolis (Deborah Frenkel, illus by Ingrid Bartkowiak, Storytorch Press)
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- Family Tree (Josh Pyke, illus by Ronojoy Ghosh, Scholastic)
- CBCA 2022 Notable Books announced
- Pyke’s ‘Family Tree’ selected for National Simultaneous Storytime 2022
- CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- Text Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- ‘Nevermoor’ to be adapted as musical film
- A&U acquires debut middle-grade novel ‘A Girl Called Corpse’
- ‘Ghost Bird’ sells to UK
- Australians nominated for 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
- How to Repaint a Life (Steven Herrick, UQP)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (picture_book): Family Tree (Josh Pyke, illus by Ronojoy Ghosh, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Romi Sharp
- (fiction): Love & Virtue (Diana Reid, Ultimo) , stars, reviewed by Georgia Brough
- (nonfiction): Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP) , stars, reviewed by Timmah Ball
- (fiction): Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) , stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (fiction): Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U) , stars, reviewed by Anthea Yang
- (fiction): The Dogs (John Hughes, Upswell) , stars, reviewed by Jack Rowland
- (young_adult): How to Repaint a Life (Steven Herrick, UQP) , stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (young_adult): The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Matt Ottley, Dirt Lane), stars, reviewed by M H Alesandrino
- (young_adult): Terciel and Elinor (Garth Nix, A&U) , stars, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
- (picture_book): Ouch! Tales of Gravity (Kate Simpson, illus by Andy Hardiman, A&U), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (younger_readers): My Brother Ben (Peter Carnavas, UQP) , stars, reviewed by Liam Hingee
- (young_adult): Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (picture_book): When You’re Older (Sofie Laguna, illus by Judy Watson, A&U Children), stars, reviewed by Michael Earp
- (nonfiction): Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin) , stars, reviewed by Tracy-Kate Simambo
- (young_adult): Dark Rise (C S Pacat, A&U) , stars, reviewed by Catherine Moller
- (young_adult): self/less (AViVA, Macmillan) , stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (fiction): The Magpie Wing (Max Easton, Giramondo) , stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (fiction): The Younger Wife (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan) , stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (picture_book): A Duck Called Brian (Al Murphy, Scholastic) , stars, reviewed by Ellen Cregan
- (fiction): Scary Monsters (Michelle de Kretser, A&U) , stars, reviewed by Carody Culver