Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Griffiths appointed HarperCollins sales director
- Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021 shortlist announced
- Transit Lounge acquires Bacon short story collection
- ARRA 2020 finalists announced
- UQP to publish Indigenous speculative fiction anthology
- S&S Australia reports record year, sales up 15%
- Wakefield acquires Roff debut short fiction collection
- Scribner acquires Cave’s ‘Into the Rip’
- UQP acquires Atkins picture book
Top stories over the past month
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- ABIA 2021 longlists announced
- HarperCollins launches new illustrated imprint
- S&S acquires Zonfrillo memoir
- Australian Book Design Awards 2021 longlists announced
- A&U acquires Agnew science debut
- Au wins inaugural Novel Prize
- Publisher, bookseller Facebook pages wiped of content
- Kelly departs HarperCollins
- Nat’s What I Reckon wins 2020 Booktopia FAB Award
Top stories over the past 12 months
- 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
- Hachette announces paid summer internship program
- Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
- Redundancies at Hardie Grant, Scribe; T&H reduces staff hours temporarily
- Bertrams future ‘at risk’
- Publish or postpone? Which titles are being delayed due to Covid-19
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2020 announced
Top stories since 1 January 2021
- Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced
- Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
- Full Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program announced
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Nielsen: Australian book sales up 7.8% in 2020
- ABIA 2021 longlists announced
- HarperCollins launches new illustrated imprint
- Book industry figures among 2021 Australia Day honours recipients
- S&S acquires Zonfrillo memoir
- Australian Book Design Awards 2021 longlists announced
- A&U acquires Agnew science debut
- Au wins inaugural Novel Prize
- Saleh wins 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
- S&S acquires Lyons cookbook
- Publisher, bookseller Facebook pages wiped of content
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- A year of transformation: The industry reflects on 2020
- Christmas 2020: Strong sales across all categories
- How international book markets performed in 2020
- The state of accessible publishing in Australia
- Sara Haghdoosti on ‘Sunburnt Veils’
- Mothers and daughters: Jacqueline Maley on ‘The Truth About Her’
- Christmas 2020 survey results
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Australian bookshops respond to Covid-19
- The unequal impact of Covid-19 on publishers
- Will Covid-19 permanently change the book industry?
- Ten rules for successful remote working
- The golden age of middle-grade
- Sales down but community spirit up: Melbourne booksellers enter second lockdown
- Sensitive subjects: The value of sensitivity reading
- Glowing up: Claire Christian on ‘It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake’
- Meet the ABDA Emerging Designers of the Year: Akiko Chan
- Browsing online: how has book buying changed during the pandemic?
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- CBCA 2021 Notable Books announced
- Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile)
- Inaugural Little Hare Illustration Prize winner announced
- Avery signs four-book deal after Walker Wednesday submission
- Inaugural Little Hare Prize for Illustration shortlist announced
- WAYRBA 2021 shortlists announced
- Paws (Kate Foster, Walker Books)
- The Prison Healer (Lynette Noni, Penguin)
- Huda and Me (H Hayek, A&U)
- Text announces Steph Bowe Mentorship for Young Writers
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2020 winners announced
- NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
- CBCA Book Week 2020 postponed to October
- ILF to hold Indigenous Literacy Day YouTube event
- Kamaleddine’s ‘The Truth About Luck’ wins inaugural Matilda Children’s Literature Prize
- CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- Walker launches biannual ‘Walker Wednesday’ to discover new writers
- Bell appointed publisher at A&U
- The golden age of middle-grade
- Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (picture_book): Respect (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner
- (nonfiction): The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system (Patrick Mullins, Scribe), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (young_adult): The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (fiction): All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (younger_readers): The Year the Maps Changed (Danielle Binks, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (younger_readers): Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Hannah Gardiner
- (young_adult): This One is Ours (Kate O’Donnell, UQP), stars, reviewed by Mischa Parkee
- (nonfiction): Soar: A life freed by dance (David McAllister, Thames & Hudson), stars, reviewed by Nathan Smith
- (nonfiction): Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave (Mark Mordue, Fourth Estate), stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (fiction): Rural Dreams (Margaret Hickey, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (fiction): The Hunted (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (nonfiction): Father of the Lost Boys (Yuot A Alaak, Fremantle Press), stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (picture_book): Wolfred (Nick Bland, Hardie Grant Egmont), stars, reviewed by Bronte Coates
- (young_adult): Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal (Anna Whateley, A&U), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (fiction): It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake (Claire Christian, Text), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (young_adult): The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
- (fiction): A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (Jessie Tu, A&U), stars, reviewed by Sydnye Allen
- (young_adult): Please Don’t Hug Me (Kay Kerr, Text), stars, reviewed by Charlotte Guest
- (picture_book): Found (Bruce Pascoe, illus by Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott, Text), stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux