Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Vale Michael Webster
- Booktopia liquidators investigating potential claim against former directors
- S&S US to no longer require book endorsements
- MUD Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced
- 2025 Bologna Best Children’s Publisher shortlist announced
- Bundyi Publishing announces unpublished manuscript prize
- Little Book Press relaunches author, illustrator mentorships
- BookPeople reveals new consumer, member websites
- Publishers, Authors Guild sue state of Idaho over book bans
- Pink Shorts Press acquires works by De Zilva, Cothren
Top stories over the past month
- Vale Michael Webster
- Hardie Grant announces restructure, redundancies
- Australian market down 3% in value
- PRH acquires Text Publishing
- Creative Australia announces New York Publishers Program 2025 delegates
- Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced
- Text Prize discontinued
- Riveted Press acquires middle-grade fantasy trilogy
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
Top stories since 1 January 2025
- Vale Michael Webster
- Hardie Grant announces restructure, redundancies
- Australian market down 3% in value
- PRH acquires Text Publishing
- Creative Australia announces New York Publishers Program 2025 delegates
- Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
- Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced
- Text Prize discontinued
- Riveted Press acquires middle-grade fantasy trilogy
- Literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients
- Local authors on Dublin Literary Award 2025 longlist
- Booktopia liquidators investigating potential claim against former directors
- Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2025 shortlist announced
- Christmas sales up 2% by value
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- How international book markets performed in 2024
- Fiona Hardy on ‘Unbury the Dead’
- Megan Brown recommends
- Fiona Hardy recommends
- Diana Reid on ‘Signs of Damage’
- Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex on ‘Outrageous Fortunes’
- Diana Reid recommends
- Lucy Sussex recommends
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
- Teens and the ‘book slump’: Why we should diagnose a situation rather than an identity
- ‘A service we wish to recommit to and double down on’: Shant Kradjian on Booktopia’s distribution services, staffing, and plans to rebuild trust
- Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
- Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
- Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
- Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
- The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
- AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
- Stuart Kells on ‘Alice™’
Top Junior stories
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP), stars, reviewed by Becca Whitehead
- (nonfiction): Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc.), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (fiction): The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Denise Jarrott
- (younger_readers): Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (fiction): Every Last Suspect (Nicola Moriarty, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Ilona Urquhart
- (fiction): Shadows of Winter Robins (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (fiction): A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (fiction): The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (nonfiction): How to Avoid a Happy Life (Julia Lawrinson, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (fiction): The Lost Letters of Rose Carey (Julie Bennett, S&S), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (fiction): The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Joy Lawn
- (young_adult): Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Katy Briggs
- (fiction): The Work (Bri Lee, A&U), stars, reviewed by Megan Koch
- (picture_book): Country (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus Cheryl Davison, Wild Dog), stars, reviewed by Baran Rostamian
- (younger_readers): The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (fiction): Love from Scratch (Amy Hutton, S&S), stars, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman
- (nonfiction): Jilya (Tracy Westerman, UQP), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (fiction): This Kingdom of Dust (David Dyer, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Dunphy
- (picture_book): Stickboy (Rebecca Young, illus Matt Ottley, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Anthea Yang
- (fiction): All the Beautiful Things You Love (Jonathan Seidler, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman