Top stories
Top stories this week
- Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
- No Vogel to be awarded this year
- Penguin General and Faber win at 2019 British Book Awards; ‘Normal People’ wins book of the year
- 2019 VIPs program highlights US market, inclusivity and creating buzz
- SWF 2019: paid attendance figures, book sales up in second year at Carriageworks
- Australian Reading Hour ambassadors’ books covers revealed
- Stella winner ‘The Erratics’ sells to US, Canada
- Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients
- Dymocks celebrates 140th anniversary
- Sinclair, Castrique win Nature Writing Prize 2019
Top stories over the past month
- Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 shortlist announced
- Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding recipients
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 winners announced; Griffiths wins book of the year
- McGraw-Hill projects up to $529m in annual savings after Cengage merger
- Woollahra Digital Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Pan Macmillian and Affirm win at 2019 ABIAs; ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins book of the year
- No Vogel to be awarded this year
- Penguin General and Faber win at 2019 British Book Awards; ‘Normal People’ wins book of the year
- The Little Bookroom and Lost in Books collaborate on ‘All the Ways to be Smart’ giveaway
- Text Prize 2019 shortlist announced
Top stories over the past year
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
- The Little Bookroom opens ‘big sister’ bookshop in Northcote
- Samuel Wagan Watson wins 2018 Patrick White Literary Award
- Book Depository to remit GST from July
Top stories in 2017
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript
- ‘The Chaser’s’ Andrew Hansen and wife Jessica Roberts sign two-book deal with Walker Books
- HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal
- Echo to publish Jabour’s debut novel ‘The Way Things Should Be’
- CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Pan Macmillan signs two-book deal with debut YA author Guillaume
- Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced
(Categories used: local news, international news, library news, international library news)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (younger_readers): A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U), 5 stars, reviewed by Phil Lesnie
- (fiction): Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U), 5 stars, reviewed by Scott Whitmont
- (fiction): A Superior Spectre (Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop), 5 stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh
- (nonfiction): Any Ordinary Day (Leigh Sales, Hamish Hamilton), 4 stars, reviewed by Lorien Kaye
- (young_adult): Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U), 5 stars, reviewed by Karen Wyld
- (younger_readers): Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Jeremy Lachlan, Hardie Grant Egmont), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Angela Crocombe
- (nonfiction): The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth), 4 stars, reviewed by Meelee Soorkia
- (fiction): The Biographer’s Lover (Ruby J Murray, Black Inc.), 5 stars, reviewed by Angela Elizabeth
- (nonfiction): Happy Never After (Jill Stark, Scribe), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (picture_book): Wisp: A Story of Hope (Zana Fraillon, illus by Grahame Baker Smith, Lothian), 4 stars, reviewed by Margaret Hamilton
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- The Little Bookroom and Lost in Books collaborate on ‘All the Ways to be Smart’ giveaway
- Text Prize 2019 shortlist announced
- Australian Reading Hour ambassadors’ books covers revealed
- Lost in Books to host IBBY Honour Books exhibition
- Class act: Facilitating in-school author visits
- Screen Australia announces funding for ‘Zac Power the Movie’
- McConnochie wins Green Earth Book Award for Children’s Fiction
- Hachette acquires junior fiction series ‘Kitty is Not a Cat’ in four-book deal
- REAL Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Hardie Grant Egmont sells two Sophie Beer titles to the US
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- The Little Bookroom opens ‘big sister’ bookshop in Northcote
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 shortlists announced
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- ‘Nevermoor’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- Lush announced as SWF head of children’s & YA programs
- Walker Books to publish YA anthology by LGBTQIA+ authors
- ‘Alex Rider’ books to be adapted into YA drama series