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Most read news and features over the past seven days
- CBCA 2026 Book of the Year Award winners
- Ned Kelly Awards 2026 best debut crime fiction shortlist announced
- PRH acquires “A Classified Affair” by Chloe Hooper
- Pages HQ bookshop to open in Drouin
- NSW History Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Christmas 2026 preview: General nonfiction
- Wiley acquires Hannah Brown’s “Wired to Lead”
- Christmas 2026 preview: Illustrated nonfiction
- Local author Eva Frances wins two Romance Writers of America awards
- Queer AFL romance “After the Siren” optioned for screen
Most read news and features over the past month
- Hachette “working around the clock” to restore distribution systems after unauthorised activity
- Leading Edge enters administration
- Varuna to launch new venue, public program
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Queensland Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for “Fierceland”
- National Biography Award 2026 shortlist announced
- Agents, AI, trust and transparency: Local literary agents respond to situation “we all live in fear of”
- Booker Prize 2026 longlist announced
- Bakers Lane Books acquires “Alice Comes Home” by Helen M Jones
Most read stories over the past 12 months
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- A&U acquires New Blue Ribbon Cookbook
- Roche wins 2025 Moth Short Story Prize
- Readings 2025 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist announced
- Danger Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- David Allen named Dymocks CEO
- Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival announces 2025 program
- International Literary Programmers Roundtable set to return to Melbourne
- Queensland Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
Most read news and features since 1 January 2026
- Wombat Books acquires debut picture book by AL Tait
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- CBCA announces 2026 book week theme
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- Australian Publishers Association Graphic Novel Editing Intensive announced
- UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation
- “Tori Woods” found guilty
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- Hachette “working around the clock” to restore distribution systems after unauthorised activity
- NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- CBCA 2026 shortlist announced
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
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Most read features
Most read feature articles over the past month
- Agents, AI, trust and transparency: Local literary agents respond to situation “we all live in fear of”
- Lily and Hugo’s children’s bookstore to open in Sunbury
- Eugen Bacon on “Crimson in Quietus”
- “Books endure” at BookUp: The risks and rewards of taking our time
- Pages HQ bookshop to open in Drouin
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- “Sometimes they’d walk out with a butterfly guide as well because we got talking”: Lindy Jones on the tacit arts of bookselling
- Aus audiobook report: “Frequent listening correlates with higher rates of reading in print and ebook formats”
- What’s next for traditional reading for young children? An excerpt from “Between Reading and Screens”
- Eugen Bacon recommends
Most read feature articles over the past 12 months
- Call for submissions: A how-to guide for responding to government
- Recommended reads for Father’s Day
- Bayt Al-Hikma: the first library in the Islamic world
- NielsenIQ Brazil reports encouraging market growth, colouring book trend
- Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini: Communities need a library
- Has the number of bookshops in Australia really halved? Probably not, but we should still be worried
- ‘Cultural pillage’: The Australian literary community responds to Meanjin’s closure
- St Joseph’s College Devagiri Library: A door to the future
- New year 2026 preview: Nonfiction
- Book Club – this month’s reads
Most read rights news stories
Most read stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Allen & Unwin acquires “Into the Valley” by Alex Miller
- Allen & Unwin acquires “The Vatican Files”
- Magabala acquires “Children of Crows” by Sharleigh Crittenden
- Allen & Unwin acquires Tanya Scott’s “Stillwater” follow-up “The Family Business”
- Allen & Unwin acquires Charlotte Guest’s debut “The Kookaburra”
- Penguin Random House acquires “Malachite” by Hasib Hourani
- PRH acquires “A Classified Affair” by Chloe Hooper
- HQ acquires “The Confession” by E Brodie
- UWA Publishing acquires Georgie Harriss autofiction “Perpetual Stew”
- Allen & Unwin acquires Joan Fleming’s debut novel “The Fig Book”
Most read reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (picture_book): Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjajamuwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika (Solomon Cocky, ed Barbara Hale & Inge Kral, UWA Publishing), stars, reviewed by Fay Helfenbaum
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (young_adult): What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (picture_book): Between (Anna Walker, Scribble), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (young_adult): A Murder is Going Down (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (fiction): Gravity Let Me Go (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Vanessa Pengelly
- (fiction): Chosen Family (Madeleine Gray, Summit Books), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
- (picture_book): Here Come the Cousins (Maggie Hutchings, illus Sarah Zweck, T&H), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (nonfiction): Mary Penfold (Grantlee Kieza, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Andrea Kress
- (fiction): The Lucky Sisters (Rachael Johns, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (younger_readers): Frances Bloom (Frances Bloom #1) (Katrina Nannestad, illus Marina Zlatanova, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
- (young_adult): Eggshell (Olivia De Zilva, Espresso), stars, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin
- (nonfiction): Silence Is My Habitat: Ecobiographical Essays (Jessica White, Upswell), stars, reviewed by Chloe Bleakley
- (fiction): The Long Night (Christian White, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Mark Johnson
- (nonfiction): Not Quite White in the Head (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP), stars, reviewed by Tierney Khan
- (picture_book): Confetti and the Rainbow Garden (Shane Jenek, illus Dylan Finney, Pantera), stars, reviewed by Bohdi Byles
- (poetry): The Rot (Evelyn Araluen, UQP), stars, reviewed by Ellie Fisher
- (fiction): Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers (Zoe Terakes, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Abe Theobald
