Top stories
Top stories this week
- The University of Western Australia to close UWA Publishing
- The Bookworm Beijing to close amid cleanup of ‘illegal structures’
- Australian authors on 2020 Dublin Literary Award longlist
- Black Inc. acquires El Sayed’s memoir ‘Muddy People’
- Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist announced
- Fitzgerald wins 2019 Richell Prize for climate change-inspired stories
- Herrick’s YA novel ‘By the River’ wins German Youth Literature Prize
- Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced
- Fyfe wins 2019 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
- PRH to acquire complete works of Eric Carle
Top stories over the past month
- Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
- Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale
- ‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series
- University of Sydney won’t appoint new chair of Australian literature
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
- ‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
- Walkley Book Award 2019 longlist announced
- NewSouth acquires Abdel-Fattah’s examination of Islamophobia
- ‘The Glad Shout’ wins 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Top stories over the past year
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- Queensland Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
- Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
- Owners of The Hobart Bookshop to retire
- Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2019 announced
Top stories in 2017
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript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
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- 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’
- Queensland Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
(Categories used: local news, international news, library news, international library news)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): On Drugs (Chris Fleming, Giramondo), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (picture_book): Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog), 4 stars, reviewed by Karen Wyld
- (picture_book): My Culture and Me (Gregg Dreise, Puffin), 4 stars, reviewed by Cassie Lynch
- (fiction): There Was Still Love (Favel Parrett, Hachette), 5 stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (nonfiction): The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes (Judith Hoare, Scribe), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (young_adult): Catch a Falling Star (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books), 4 stars, reviewed by Tehani Croft
- (young_adult): You Must Be Layla (Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Penguin), 3 stars, reviewed by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
- (fiction): Into the Fire (Sonia Orchard, Affirm Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Hilary Simmons
- (younger_readers): The Glimme (Emily Rodda, illus by Marc McBride, Scholastic), 5 stars, reviewed by Dani Solomon
- (nonfiction): Accidental Feminists (Jane Caro, MUP), 3 stars, reviewed by Melissa Cranenburgh
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
- ‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
- ‘All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors’ sold to US, Canada
- ‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
- 2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- Herrick’s YA novel ‘By the River’ wins German Youth Literature Prize
- Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced
- ‘Missing Marvin’ wins Children’s Peace Literature Award
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- CBCA Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
- Hachette signs international deal for three new ‘Nevermoor’ books; details for book 3 announced
- ‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
- A&U acquires new Anh Do children’s books in three-series deal
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 shortlists announced