Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Hardie Grant acquires Alberici memoir
- Rabble to cease stocking Rowling titles
- Crispin awarded 2020 Blake Poetry Prize
- Booker Prize 2020 shortlist announced
- Young wins 2020 Colin Roderick Award for ‘Paper Emperors’
- Dalton, Pape, Bluey dominate Australian bestsellers YTD
- PRH to publish first volume of Obama memoir in November
- PRH acquires Madden’s ‘Anything But Fine’
- HarperCollins, S&S add diversity-focused directors
- QBD unrolls Australian Geographic kiosks
Top stories over the past month
- Hardie Grant acquires Alberici memoir
- Hardie Grant, Kellow launch Ultimo Press
- Lui to curate new A&U imprint
- Hardie Grant, RMIT announce new narrative nonfiction prize
- A&U acquires 2020 Calibre Prize winner Rees’ memoir
- Affirm acquires picture book based on viral TikTok poem
- CWF 2020: All live events sold out; ‘strong uptake’ for streaming
- Daunt outlines plan for Barnes & Noble
- Readings announces 2020 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
- Ned Kelly Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Top stories over the past 12 months
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
- ‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series
- Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
- Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2019 White Ravens list
- Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
- Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
- University of Sydney won’t appoint new chair of Australian literature
- Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale
- Hardie Grant acquires Slattery Media Group publications, expands sports publishing
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
- Redundancies at Hardie Grant, Scribe; T&H reduces staff hours temporarily
- Bertrams future ‘at risk’
- More than half of authors paid below standard rates for appearances, according to ASA rates tracker
- Publish or postpone? Which titles are being delayed due to Covid-19
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2020 announced
- ABA conference, BookUp postponed
- Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
- Hachette announces paid summer internship program
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- ABIA 2020 longlists announced
- Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Light bulb moment: why stories of women in STEM are important
- Outsider art: Sofie Laguna on ‘Infinite Splendours’
- Adventure time: Shivaun Plozza on ‘The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars’
- Nathan Hollier on the Malaysian book market
- Good Books: a new bookshop for Wellington
- Nathan Hollier on the Indian book market
- Everyday heroes: Jamila Rizvi on ‘I’m a Hero Too’
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Australian bookshops respond to Covid-19
- Brexit, bookselling and ‘Boy Swallows Universe’: An interview with Charlie Redmayne
- 2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview
- Australian novels, international rights—what’s the story? Part three
- All bases covered: Karys McEwen on book design
- Taking stock: Hachette’s Next Stock Date system
- Book designer spotlight: Imogen Stubbs
- Quiet achiever: Jessica Horrocks’ career journey
- The information age: Children’s reference books
- The bookseller’s dilemma: What bookstores won’t stock
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Affirm acquires picture book based on viral TikTok poem
- SCBWI announces new awards for Australian illustrators
- PRH named ‘master publishing partner’ for Bluey books ahead of US, UK launches
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2020 winners announced
- Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing establishes new illustration prize
- PRH acquires Madden’s ‘Anything But Fine’
- Light bulb moment: why stories of women in STEM are important
- Australian Geographic acquires ‘Deadly Science’ series
- How to Make a Bird (Meg McKinlay, illus by Matt Ottley, Walker Books)
- How to Be a Real Ballerina (Davina Bell, illus by Jenny Løvlie, Little Hare Books)
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2019 White Ravens list
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- ‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
- ‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
- Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
- ‘All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors’ sold to US, Canada
- Walker acquires middle-grade novels from Pamela Rushby, Allison Rushby
- Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced
- Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion (Robert Tickner, Scribe), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (fiction): Shirl (Wayne Marshall, Affirm), 4 stars, reviewed by Myles McGuire
- (nonfiction): The Medicine: A doctor’s notes (Karen Hitchcock, Black Inc.), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (nonfiction): Blueberries (Ellena Savage, Text), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Charlotte Guest
- (fiction): Cherry Beach (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text), 4 stars, reviewed by Carody Culver
- (fiction): In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette), 4 stars, reviewed by Simon McDonald
- (fiction): Fauna (Donna Mazza, A&U), 4 stars, reviewed by Anne Barnetson
- (nonfiction): Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China won’t map the future (Rory Medcalf, La Trobe University Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Chris Saliba
- (fiction): Bird (Adam Morris, Puncher & Wattmann), 4 stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (picture_book): Three (Stephen Michael King, Scholastic), 4 stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
- (fiction): Return Ticket (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Doug Wallen
- (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
- (fiction): No Neat Endings: Stories (Dominic Carew, MidnightSun), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Nathan Smith
- (young_adult): The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (nonfiction): A Year in the Mud and the Toast and the Tears: My (semi) rural kind of life (Georgie Brooks, Bad Apple Press), 3 stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (nonfiction): Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders (Phillip Roope & Kevin Meagher, A&U), 3 stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (fiction): Mammoth (Chris Flynn, UQP), stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (young_adult): The Girl with the Gold Bikini (Lisa Walker, Wakefield), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Alida Galati