Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Dohle assures agents of competitive bidding between PRH, S&S
- Willson appointed Murdoch Books publisher
- $100k Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
- Readings to open new Melbourne CBD shop
- Pyke’s ‘Family Tree’ selected for National Simultaneous Storytime 2022
- Walker Books launches new imprint Walker Studio
- Bowen appointed ILF CEO
- Stivens wins 2022 Ray Koppe Fellowship
- Hardie Grant acquires debut novel ‘The Eulogy’
- Ultimo acquires Khalil, Davidow memoir
Top stories over the past month
- Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced
- Stella Prize rebrands, expands eligibility
- EPAA 2021 winners announced
- Varuna announces 2022 residential fellowships
- Readings announces 2021 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
- Wright wins 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
- Booktopia revenue up 35%, profit up 125%
- Ghosh to headline Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Perth
- Queensland Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
- Barnes & Noble sales up 5–6%
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
- ‘Fireflies’ establishes book publisher
- CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
- CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
- Australia Council, Create NSW, WA arts funding latest rounds announced
Top stories since 1 January 2021
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2021 longlist announced
- Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
- CBCA Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
- Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced
- Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- ‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
- Civica library index: Australians turn to local fiction during pandemic
- Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020
- 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
- #BookTok 101: Your guide to a major new force in publishing
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Azil in Ljubljana
- Books in the media this weekend: A new round-up
- Melbourne City Reads boosts sales, ‘camaraderie and solidarity’
- Chelsea Watego on ‘Another Day in the Colony’
- October reviews round-up
- Books in the media this weekend
- Monica McInerney on ‘Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat’
- Exploring the natural world: Australian environment-themed children’s books
- Monica McInerney recommends
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Christmas in July
- Debut fiction you might have missed in 2020
- Q&A with Dymocks CEO Mark Newman
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop
- Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
- A Christmas message to European bookshops
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Kraków’s Massolit Books
- From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing
- Katherine Rajwar on interning at Hachette
- Melbourne City of Lit meets Nottingham’s Five Leaves Bookshop
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- ‘Ghost Bird’ sells to UK
- Terciel and Elinor (Garth Nix, A&U)
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2021 winners announced
- Pyke’s ‘Family Tree’ selected for National Simultaneous Storytime 2022
- $100k Historical Novel Prize longlists announced
- The Greatest Mistakes That Went Right (Maddy Mara, illus by Cheryl Orsini, Affirm Press)
- Walker Books launches new imprint Walker Studio
- HGCP acquires ‘UnMonumental’ picture book
- Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
- Merriman YA novels optioned for screen
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- CBCA 2021 Book of the Year shortlists announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U)
- HarperCollins acquires Pung, Ng children’s books
- Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile)
- Affirm acquires Bontempelli picture book
- With a Little Kelp from Our Friends (Mathew Bate, illus by Liz Rowland, Thames & Hudson)
- Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
- Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the monsoon forest (Diane Lucas and Ben Tyler, illus by Emma Long, A&U Children’s)
- The Odds (Matt Stanton, ABC Books)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (young_adult): The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
- (nonfiction): Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave (Mark Mordue, Fourth Estate), 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
- (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): Lola Online: #TheSecretUpstairsFanClubParty (Shannan & Tayla Stedman, Omnibus), stars, reviewed by Katie Haydon
- (fiction): Love Objects (Emily Maguire, A&U), stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (fiction): The Women and the Girls (Laura Bloom, A&U), stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (picture_book): With a Little Kelp from Our Friends (Mathew Bate, illus by Liz Rowland, Thames & Hudson), stars, reviewed by Ellen Cregan
- (nonfiction): Buried Not Dead (Fiona McGregor, Giramondo), stars, reviewed by Cher Tan
- (nonfiction): Coming of Age in the War on Terror (Randa Abdel-Fattah, NewSouth), stars, reviewed by Daniel Nour
- (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
- (younger_readers): The Odds (Matt Stanton, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (picture_book): Main Abija My Grandad (Karen Rogers, A&U), stars, reviewed by Thuy On
- (nonfiction): The Nordic Edge: Policy possibilities for Australia (ed by Andrew Scott & Rod Campbell, MUP), stars, reviewed by Chris Saliba
- (fiction): Echolalia (Briohny Doyle, Vintage), stars, reviewed by Jack Rowland
- (fiction): The Silent Listener (Lyn Yeowart, Viking), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (picture_book): Give Me Some Space! (Philip Bunting, Omnibus), stars, reviewed by Bronte Coates
- (younger_readers): Footprints on the Moon (Lorraine Marwood, UQP), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala