Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- A&U to reduce working hours and salaries by 20%
- Australian trade publishing revenue up 15%, unit sales up 36% year-on-year
- Bookshops, publishers eligible for wage subsidy scheme
- CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- ‘Most’ Dymocks stores remain open as chain announces Top 101
- Pan Mac Australia parent company begins ‘cost-saving’ initiative; layoffs, wage cuts in US
- ‘The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree’ shortlisted for International Booker
- HarperCollins to acquire Egmont Books UK
- Oz writing bodies call for additional ‘disaster response’ funding, ELR/PLR to expand to digital
- OzCo announces four-year funding; 49 unsuccessful orgs to receive extensions
Top stories over the past month
- ABA asks publishers for support during Covid-19 outbreak
- ABA conference, BookUp postponed
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2020 announced
- Retailers allowed to remain open as federal, state govts introduce lockdown measures
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- A&U to reduce working hours and salaries by 20%
- Bell appointed publisher at A&U
- S&S, Nielsen withdraw from LEB conference
- Australian trade publishing revenue up 15%, unit sales up 36% year-on-year
- Bookshops, publishers eligible for wage subsidy scheme
Top stories over the past 12 months
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
- ‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series
- Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
- Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
- Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
- University of Sydney won’t appoint new chair of Australian literature
- Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced
- Amazon Australia makes Farrow book available for sale
- Hardie Grant acquires Slattery Media Group publications, expands sports publishing
Top stories since 1 January 2020
- ABA asks publishers for support during Covid-19 outbreak
- ABA conference, BookUp postponed
- Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
- Penguin Literary Prize shortlist 2020 announced
- Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
- Bottomley to give keynote at ABA conference
- ABIA 2020 longlists announced
- Demetriou to replace Kellow as HarperCollins ANZ CEO
- Stella Prize 2020 longlist announced
- Stella Prize 2020 shortlist announced
- Writers, literary orgs among latest OzCo funding round recipients
- CBCA 2020 Notable Books announced
- Copyright Agency makes $150k investment in arts criticism and reviews
- Coronavirus closes Chinese printers; Australian publishers expect delays
- Hardie Grant to enter EBA negotiations with staff
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Australian bookshops respond to Covid-19
- Ten rules for successful remote working
- CYL may be gone but YA can still thrive through grassroots advocacy
- In our nature: Robbie Arnott on ‘The Rain Heron’
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Australian bookshops respond to Covid-19
- Brexit, bookselling and ‘Boy Swallows Universe’: An interview with Charlie Redmayne
- 2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview
- Australian novels, international rights—what’s the story? Part three
- Taking stock: Hachette’s Next Stock Date system
- All bases covered: Karys McEwen on book design
- Book designer spotlight: Imogen Stubbs
- Quiet achiever: Jessica Horrocks’ career journey
- The information age: Children’s reference books
- Australian novels, international rights: What’s the story? Part two
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Bell appointed publisher at A&U
- CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced
- Wild honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
- S&S pulls UK, US staff from Bologna
- US kids authors launch digital festival in wake of cancellations
- Hardie Grant Egmont sells ‘Your Planet Needs You’ to five territories
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
- ‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
- Twelve Australians nominated for 2020 Astrid Lindgren Award
- CBCA Awards 2019 winners announced
- Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2019 White Ravens list
- ‘Message in a Sock’ wins children’s book award
- Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
- ‘All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors’ sold to US, Canada
- Walker acquires middle-grade novels from Pamela Rushby, Allison Rushby
- Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion (Robert Tickner, Scribe), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (fiction): Shirl (Wayne Marshall, Affirm), 4 stars, reviewed by Myles McGuire
- (nonfiction): The Medicine: A doctor’s notes (Karen Hitchcock, Black Inc.), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (nonfiction): Blueberries (Ellena Savage, Text), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Charlotte Guest
- (fiction): There Was Still Love (Favel Parrett, Hachette), 5 stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (fiction): Cherry Beach (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text), 4 stars, reviewed by Carody Culver
- (fiction): Fauna (Donna Mazza, A&U), 4 stars, reviewed by Anne Barnetson
- (fiction): In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette), 4 stars, reviewed by Simon McDonald
- (nonfiction): Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China won’t map the future (Rory Medcalf, La Trobe University Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Chris Saliba
- (fiction): Bird (Adam Morris, Puncher & Wattmann), 4 stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (fiction): Return Ticket (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press), 4 stars, reviewed by Doug Wallen
- (nonfiction): The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes (Judith Hoare, Scribe), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (younger_readers): The Glimme (Emily Rodda, illus by Marc McBride, Scholastic), 5 stars, reviewed by Dani Solomon
- (nonfiction): On Drugs (Chris Fleming, Giramondo), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Brad Jefferies
- (fiction): Being Black ’N Chicken, & Chips (Matt Okine, Hachette), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux
- (fiction): Wearing Paper Dresses (Anne Brinsden, Macmillan), 4 stars, reviewed by Joanne Shiells
- (younger_readers): How to Make a Movie in 12 Days (Fiona Hardy, Affirm Kids), 4 stars, reviewed by Katie Haydon
- (picture_book): All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors (Davina Bell, illus by Jenny Løvlie, Little Hare), 4 stars, reviewed by Louise Pfanner
- (nonfiction): A River with a City Problem: A history of Brisbane floods (Margaret Cook, UQP), 4 stars, reviewed by Julia Taylor
- (young_adult): The Man in the Water (David Burton, UQP), 4 stars, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh