Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- S&S acquires Wright biography
- Young wins first prize in Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2021
- SPN Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
- ‘Still Life’ named Dymocks 2021 Book of the Year
- Dymocks Melbourne hires security after alleged check-in assault
- McLean donates $1 million to Stella Prize
- SPN conference 2021: ‘stimulating, diverse and accessible’
- Distribution of Sebold memoir halted after man jailed for her rape exonerated
- Angry Robot acquires Gold Coast BookTokker debut
- UQP acquires new Lucashenko novel ‘Edenglassie’
Top stories over the past month
- Supply chain: Booksellers report serious delays; missing, damaged stock
- Hachette opens Melbourne, Brisbane ‘working hubs’
- Pause on east coast consignments as trade works to mitigate XL supply issues
- Onus on Australian rights holders to opt out of Internet Archive donation
- Jordan wins 2021 Richell Prize
- Hardie Grant appoints Harry, Epa
- Varuna launches publisher and agent program
- Pascoe awarded 2021 ASA Medal
- Tsiolkas, Araluen, Grills, Clarke 2021 Melbourne Prize winners
- Cuthbert joins Pantera
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- ‘Fireflies’ establishes book publisher
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
- CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
- Australia Council, Create NSW, WA arts funding latest rounds announced
- Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2020 winners announced
Top stories since 1 January 2021
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
- CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
- Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced
- ‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year
- Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020
- Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- Civica library index: Australians turn to local fiction during pandemic
- Stella Prize 2021 longlist announced
Categories used for top stories:
- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Stories we tell: 2022 fiction preview
- Reality bites: 2022 nonfiction preview
- Career path: Johannes Jakob
- Getting in early: 2022 children’s and YA preview
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Dunedin’s University Book Shop
- ‘The lost dog poster’: designers on book covers in 2021
- Get to know the SPN Book of the Year shortlist
- Get to know the SPN Book of the Year shortlist
- Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 November
- Get to know the SPN Book of the Year shortlist
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Christmas in July
- Q&A with Dymocks CEO Mark Newman
- Debut fiction you might have missed in 2020
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
- #BookTok 101: Your guide to a major new force in publishing
- Diana Reid on ‘Love & Virtue’
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Kraków’s Massolit Books
- A Christmas message to European bookshops
- From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Nottingham’s Five Leaves Bookshop
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Ouch! Tales of Gravity (Kate Simpson, illus by Andy Hardiman, A&U)
- Getting in early: 2022 children’s and YA preview
- Aus picture books chosen for IFLA catalogue
- Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U)
- This is Me! (Sally Morgan, Magabala)
- Ober wins 2021 French HiP prize
- Xavier in the Meantime (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
- In an Artist’s Garden (Claire Orrell, Thames & Hudson)
- Big World, Tiny World: Forest (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
- Kate Gordon on ‘Xavier in the Meantime’
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile)
- Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the monsoon forest (Diane Lucas and Ben Tyler, illus by Emma Long, A&U Children’s)
- Main Abija My Grandad (Karen Rogers, A&U)
- The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text)
- Text Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- Paws (Kate Foster, Walker Books)
- The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel (Nicki Greenberg, Affirm)
- Common Wealth (Gregg Dreise, Scholastic)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (young_adult): The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
- (nonfiction): Who Gets to be Smart (Bri Lee, A&U), stars, reviewed by Kim Thomson
- (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
- (fiction): Love Objects (Emily Maguire, A&U), stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (fiction): Echolalia (Briohny Doyle, Vintage), stars, reviewed by Jack Rowland
- (picture_book): Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the monsoon forest (Diane Lucas and Ben Tyler, illus by Emma Long, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Romi Sharp
- (nonfiction): The Nordic Edge: Policy possibilities for Australia (ed by Andrew Scott & Rod Campbell, MUP), stars, reviewed by Chris Saliba
- (picture_book): Main Abija My Grandad (Karen Rogers, A&U), stars, reviewed by Thuy On
- (young_adult): The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text), stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (nonfiction): Recipe for a Kinder Life (Annie Smithers, Thames & Hudson), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (fiction): Love & Virtue (Diana Reid, Ultimo) , stars, reviewed by Georgia Brough
- (younger_readers): Paws (Kate Foster, Walker Books), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (fiction): Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) (Anita Heiss, S&S), stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (younger_readers): The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel (Nicki Greenberg, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (poetry): Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP), stars, reviewed by Jeremy George
- (fiction): The Shut Ins (Katherine Brabon, A&U), stars, reviewed by Chloë Cooper
- (picture_book): Common Wealth (Gregg Dreise, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Melinda Allan
- (nonfiction): The Believer (Sarah Krasnostein, Text), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (younger_readers): Fil & Harry (Jenny Blackford, illus by Kristin Devine, Christmas Press), stars, reviewed by Lian Hingee