Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Van Neerven awarded Civitella Ranieri Center Fellowship in Italy
- Text acquires four additional Text Prize-shortlisted books
- Hachette acquires two new Lester books
- Van Neerven, Sakr to host new UQP poetry podcast
- Colin Roderick Award 2020 longlist announced
- Federal government announces $250 million creative support package
- John Marsden prize renamed Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers
- WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
- Furloughed UK staff return to work
- Llewellyn appointed Wheeler Centre CEO
Top stories over the past month
- Australian publishing workers share salaries to promote wage transparency
- Age/SMH seeks ‘greater diversity of applicants’ for book critic roles
- Tan wins 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal
- Overett wins Penguin Literary Prize 2020
- Australian authors and industry figures recognised in 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours
- Magabala Books announces First Nations’ publishing cadetship
- Booksellers’ Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards shortlists announced
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced
- Kavanagh and Callil resign as emerging critics over lack of diversity
- Footprint Books to close
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- ‘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’
- ABA conference, BookUp postponed
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2020 announced
- Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
- ABIA 2020 longlists announced
- 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
- Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
- Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
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- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Behind closed doors: Victoria Hannan on ‘Kokomo’
- The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter
- Bookselling during the ‘new normal’
- Career Path: Middle Grade Mavens
- Every unhappy family: S L Lim on ‘Revenge’
- Community cup: Rawah Arja on ‘The F Team’
- Witnessing the future: Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Mother Fault’
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
- Quiet achiever: Jessica Horrocks’ career journey
- Book designer spotlight: Imogen Stubbs
- The information age: Children’s reference books
- Australian novels, international rights: What’s the story? Part two
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Illustrating the truth: Charmaine Ledden-Lewis on ‘Found’
- Career Path: Middle Grade Mavens
- Wakefield acquires Haghdoosti’s debut YA novel ‘Sunburnt Veils’
- Howl (Kat Patrick, illus by Evie Barrow, Scribble)
- The Wolves of Greycoat Hall (Lucinda Gifford, Walker Books)
- Aunty’s Wedding (Miranda Tapsell & Joshua Tyler, illus by Samantha Fry, A&U)
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
- ‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- ‘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
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
- (fiction): There Was Still Love (Favel Parrett, Hachette), 5 stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (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): Fauna (Donna Mazza, A&U), 4 stars, reviewed by Anne Barnetson
- (fiction): In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette), 4 stars, reviewed by Simon McDonald
- (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
- (younger_readers): The Glimme (Emily Rodda, illus by Marc McBride, Scholastic), 5 stars, reviewed by Dani Solomon
- (fiction): Return Ticket (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Doug Wallen
- (nonfiction): The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes (Judith Hoare, Scribe), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (fiction): Wearing Paper Dresses (Anne Brinsden, Macmillan), 4 stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (fiction): Being Black ’N Chicken, & Chips (Matt Okine, Hachette), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (fiction): The Weekend (Charlotte Wood, A&U), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Carody Culver
- (younger_readers): How to Make a Movie in 12 Days (Fiona Hardy, Affirm Kids), 4 stars, reviewed by Katie Haydon
- (picture_book): All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors (Davina Bell, illus by Jenny Løvlie, Little Hare), 4 stars, reviewed by Louise Pfanner
- (picture_book): The Tiny Star (Mem Fox, illus by Freya Blackwood, Puffin), 5 stars, reviewed by Margaret Hamilton
- (young_adult): The Man in the Water (David Burton, UQP), 4 stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh