Top stories
Top stories this week
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Writers, literary festivals among OzCo funding recipients
- More guests boycott Dubai lit fest, protest human rights abuses in UAE
- Faber Writing Academy Scholarships announced
- Full program announced for 2019 Perth Writers Week
- New database to celebrate diversity in children’s books
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2019 shortlist announced
- Alex Adsett agency lands multi-territory book deal for debut picture book
- Liminal magazine establishes short fiction prize, partners with Brow Books
Top stories over the past month
- Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.049m funding grants
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- Writers, literary festivals among OzCo funding recipients
- More guests boycott Dubai lit fest, protest human rights abuses in UAE
- Faber Writing Academy Scholarships announced
- Full program announced for 2019 Perth Writers Week
- New database to celebrate diversity in children’s books
- Costa Book Awards 2018 category winners announced
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2019 shortlist announced
Top stories over the past year
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced
- Oceanofpdf piracy website returns
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2018 longlist announced
- Ball departs PRH
Top stories in 2017
- Hardie Grant to publish Hamilton’s controversial ‘Silent Invasion’
- Kampot Readers & Writers Festival cancelled for 2018
- 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- PRH announces new $20,000 prize for an unpublished manuscript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
- Echo to publish Jabour’s debut novel ‘The Way Things Should Be’
- HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal
- CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced
- ‘Netflix for books’ launches in Australia
- Pan Macmillan signs two-book deal with debut YA author Guillaume
- ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
- Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
- Dennis Jones & Associates enters liquidation
- Oceanofpdf piracy website taken down
(Categories used: local news, international news, library news, international library news)
Top reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (nonfiction): Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia (Marcia Langton, Hardie Grant), 4 stars, reviewed by Karen Wyld
- (younger_readers): Girltopia (Hilary Rogers, Scholastic), 4 stars, reviewed by Natalie Crawford
- (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
- (fiction): The Love That I Have (James Moloney, HarperCollins), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (picture_book): Cicada (Shaun Tan, Lothian), 5 stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): The Nowhere Child (Christian White, Affirm Press), 4.5 stars, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree
- (nonfiction): Any Ordinary Day (Leigh Sales, Hamish Hamilton), 4 stars, reviewed by Lorien Kaye
- (fiction): Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 3.5 stars, reviewed by Doug Wallen
Top Junior stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
- Indie Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced
- New database to celebrate diversity in children’s books
- Alex Adsett agency lands multi-territory book deal for debut picture book
- ‘Oliver’s Grumbles’ sold into China in small press’ first overseas rights sale
- Berbay sells three Canty picture books in China
- Berbay sells board book series to US, UK
Top stories over the past year in the Junior category
- Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris
- The Little Bookroom opens ‘big sister’ bookshop in Northcote
- Walker Books to publish middle-grade fiction book by Zoe Norton Lodge and sister Georgia
- PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
- Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2018 shortlists announced
- Gleitzman announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2018-19
- CBCA Notable Books for 2018 announced
- Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
- ‘Nevermoor’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced
- ‘Amelia Westlake’ sells into US