Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- S&S acquires three titles by Heiss
- Fullagar wins 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
- Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette
- Berry wins overall Writers’ Prize for ‘The Home Child’
- Local publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
- Carnegie Medal 2024 shortlists announced
- Christmas Press acquires Kelleher SF novel ‘The Lastling’
- CBCA 2024 shortlists announced
- Aurealis Awards shortlists announced
- Hachette acquires Paris debut ‘The Unravelling’ in two-book deal
Top stories over the past month
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced
- CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced
- S&S acquires three titles by Heiss
- Gender pay gaps revealed for larger Australian publishers
- Booktopia half-year revenue down 21%; profit down 34%
- Fullagar wins 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
- Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette
- Perth Writers Weekend programming remains unchanged, despite open letter
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
- Hachette, A&U drop ins detail Roberts-Smith case
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
- Fagan files suit against A&U
- Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
- ‘Immaculate’ wins 2023 Vogel
- CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced
- A&U announces Fagan resignation
- CBCA Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Top stories since 1 January 2024
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
- ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees
- S&S announces staff restructure, new appointments
- Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments
- Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced
- CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced
- Gougoulis to depart Text
- Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced
- S&S acquires three titles by Heiss
- Craig leaves Ultimo
- Johnstons ‘positive about the future of Hill of Content’ in Melbourne
- Authors among Australia Day honours
- Gender pay gaps revealed for larger Australian publishers
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
- The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
- Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
- Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
- Bri Lee recommends
- New York, New York: Insights from the 2024 Australian publishing delegation
- Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
- Shankari Chandran recommends
- Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Angourie Rice and Kate Rice on ‘Stuck Up & Stupid’
- AI: The next, best editorial tool?
- Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
- Explainer: What are the costs and considerations of making audiobooks?
- Listen up: How booksellers are getting in on the audiobook boom
- Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
- Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
- Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’
- ‘I wanted to make a meaningful impact’: Reflections from the 2023 Open Book interns
- Rising Stars on AI
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U Children’s)
- Desert Jungle (Jeannie Baker, Walker)
- Affirm signs Mellor for five-book series and third ‘Grandest Bookshop’ book
- Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
- Stay for Dinner (Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus Michelle Pereira, Bright Light)
- Monster Island (George Ivanoff, Puffin)
- Mother Earth (Libby Hathorn, illus Christina Booth, Lothian)
- Backyard Footy (Carl Merrison, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
- Who’s Afraid of the Light? (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
- My Little Barlaagany Sunshine (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (fiction): The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U), stars, reviewed by Anne Barneston
- (picture_book): Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures (Timothy Ide, MidnightSun), stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
- (fiction): Days of Innocence and Wonder (Lucy Treloar, Picador), stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (fiction): A Woman of Courage (Tania Blanchard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Anna Loder
- (fiction): Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (young_adult): If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next (Jack Heath, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (nonfiction): Meatsmith (Andrew McConnell & Troy Wheeler, Hardie Grant), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (younger_readers): Kimmi: Queen of the dingoes (Favel Parrett, illus Astred Hicks, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s songs reimagined (ed by Kirsten Krauth, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Megan Koch
- (picture_book): Eighteen Summers (Penny Harrison, illus Leila Rudge, Little Hare), stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (young_adult): We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Brenton Cullen
- (nonfiction): Big Mouth (Matt Preston, Viking), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (picture_book): Hunter on Holiday: A Big Trip Around Europe (Jessica and Stephen Parry-Valentine, illus Ashlee Spink, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Phil Lesnie
- (younger_readers): Fluff: Bullies Beware (Matt Stanton, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (picture_book): Penguin Oh Penguin (Gladys Milroy, illus Helen Milroy, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
- (nonfiction): A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (picture_book): Good Night, Good Beach (Joy Cowley, illus Hilary Jean Tapper, Gecko Press), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (younger_readers): Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin
- (picture_book): Nothing Alike (Zewlan Moor, illus Peter Cheong, Bright Light), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
- (nonfiction): Engaging China: How Australia can lead the way again (ed by Jamie Reilly & Jingdong Yuan, SUP), stars, reviewed by Nathan Smith