Most read
Most read news and features over the past seven days
- Hardie Grant to integrate Pantera Press titles across imprints, staff to depart
- WA Premier’s Book Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Hachette to publish CFMEU exposé by Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders
- 2026 Rising Star shortlist announced
- Dorothy Hewett Award 2026 shortlist announced
- Gabriel Rolfe wins 2026 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & Lewitt Studios Essay Prize
- A&U acquires Mark Tedeschi’s “The Gentleman Bushranger”
- ASAL award winners announced
- Varuna announces 2027 residential fellowships
- Ubud Writers & Readers Festival first line-up announced
Most read news and features over the past month
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- HarperCollins acquires Hayden Green’s YA verse novel in two-book deal
- Blake, Doust leave Simon & Schuster in publishing team reorganisation
- Redundancies, promotions at Booktopia as digiDirect integrates its consumer-facing businesses
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 shortlist announced
- Hardie Grant to integrate Pantera Press titles across imprints, staff to depart
- Stefen Brazulaitis, Graeme Aitken inaugural Lifetime Achievement winners at 2026 ABA bookseller and book of the year awards
- NielsenIQ: Local sales up $14 million for the year to date
- Davitt Awards 2026 longlists announced
- Festival of Dangerous Ideas announces 2026 program
Most read stories over the past 12 months
- Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
- Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut
- Australian Political Book of the Year 2025 longlist announced
- ILF Day theme announced
- Shadaya named a Time magazine Girl of the Year
- World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award
- S&S acquires Kitching’s next thriller
- Papercuts Comics Festival announces program
- Pryor awarded 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant
- A&U acquires New Blue Ribbon Cookbook
Most read news and features since 1 January 2026
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- Miles Franklin 2026 longlist announced
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation
- CBCA announces 2026 book week theme
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- Silvey charged over child exploitation material
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Writing Australia announces 2026 VIPs
- Claims of hypocrisy levelled over AWW as Abdel-Fattah invitation reissued
- Jones retires from Abbey’s
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- local news
- international news
- features
Most read features
Most read feature articles over the past month
- “One of the last true immersive experiences”: QBD CEO Nick Croydon on the future of books
- Inflation, closed doors, horror, but the mood was up at the 2026 ABA conference
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- “Even before the digital revolution, around 80% of books did not recoup the publisher’s investment”: Nathan Hollier on Australia’s history of rushed publishing
- Who is Evercreech? The micro publisher shortlisted for the Miles Franklin with its first book
- Kate Foster on “A River I Must Be”
- Kate Foster recommends
- Anna Battese recommends
- Anna Battese on “The Grey Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Odds”
- John A Scott on “The Boy Who Loved Dolls”
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
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
- Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini: Communities need a library
- Books on the Rail’s Ali and Michelle in conversation
- ‘Cultural pillage’: The Australian literary community responds to Meanjin’s closure
Most read rights news stories
Most read stories over the past month in the Junior category
- Allen & Unwin acquires Ariarne Titmus memoir
- HarperCollins acquires Hayden Green’s YA verse novel in two-book deal
- Hardie Grant acquires Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst’s “World Is Almost at Peace” under Pantera imprint
- HarperCollins acquires Kári Gíslason’s “To Catch a Fox”
- Allen & Unwin acquires Gyton Grantley’s “Il Dolce Fiasco”
- Hachette to publish CFMEU exposé by Nick McKenzie and Ben Schneiders
- Upswell Publishing acquires Meera Atkinson poetry collection
- Pink Shorts Press acquires Arantza Garcia Ferrand’s “Cotton-filled”
- Upswell acquires Declan Fry’s “Fantasy Ransom”
- A&U acquires two books in new Naïma Brown series
Most read reviews
Most viewed reviews over the past year
- (fiction): Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (Clare Stephens, Atlantic), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (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): Left Behind (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo), stars, reviewed by Kate Frawley
- (picture_book): Naynay and the Mermaid (Tasma Walton, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by A Kirk
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (young_adult): For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (fiction): A Smart Girl’s Guide to Second Chances (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
- (picture_book): Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder (Tim Winton, illus Cindy Lane, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Caitlin Hadrill
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (younger_readers): Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books), stars, reviewed by Kathryn Wheaton Grierson
- (young_adult): What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (fiction): Very Impressive for Your Age (Eleanor Kirk, A&U), stars, reviewed by Heidi Maier
- (nonfiction): Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth), stars, reviewed by Ellie Pope
- (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): The One Remaining (Paula McLean, Fearless Press), stars, reviewed by Ananya Thirumalai
- (fiction): Gravity Let Me Go (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Vanessa Pengelly
- (fiction): Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah, UQP), stars, reviewed by Eman Mourad
- (fiction): Chosen Family (Madeleine Gray, Summit Books), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins