Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- ASA/HQ Fiction Prize 2026 shortlist announced
- A&U acquires Barry’s “The Big Steal”
- Rabah wins 2026 Calibre Essay Prize
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal honoured in inaugural Luminas
- Byron Writers Festival 2026 first authors announced
- The Nile offers international shipping
- Affirm Press acquires Byrt’s “Dying Days”
- Hachette workers in US, Canada seek to unionise
- S&S creates new global distribution channel
- Pulitzer Prize 2026 winners announced
Top stories over the past month
- Araluen cuts ties with UQP after reports publisher will pulp picture book
- UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation
- ABIA 2026 book award shortlists announced
- NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Oliver wins €6000 Moth Poetry Prize
- SWF responds to bookseller criticism
- Whitsundays Writers Festival announces 2026 program
- Bloomsbury reorganises its global publishing business
- Ball appointed UQP publishing director
- ABIA 2026 business award shortlists announced
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Atria acquires BookToker Bateman debut
- Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
- Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut
- Hachette acquires McNab’s true crime ‘Recipe for Murder’
- Bakers Lane Books: New publisher, writing prize launched
- Wombat Books launches writing prize for teens
- 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
Top stories since 1 January 2026
- HarperCollins drops David Walliams
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Silvey charged over child exploitation material
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- Writing Australia announces 2026 VIPs
- Claims of hypocrisy levelled over AWW as Abdel-Fattah invitation reissued
- A&U acquires book based on “The Inventors” series
- Jones retires from Abbey’s
- Writing Australia announces North America Publishers’ Program delegates
- Local authors feature in UK and US shortlists
- Mildura Writers Festival director, board changes
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2026 winners announced
Categories used for top stories:
- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- SWF non-compete clause “a disaster for independent bookshops”
- “I do not believe we counter racism, antisemitism, homophobia or transphobia by boycotts and cancellations”: Dennis Altman on the cancellation of “Bila”
- Penguin Random House Australia: “The Penguin Modern Australian Classics will be treasured by readers for years to come”
- The Rose Read Bookshop to open in Summer Hill
- “Numbers are powerful”: University of Melbourne researchers on the APA workforce survey
- Ingram: “Forecasting demand has become more challenging for retailers”
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Mary Colussi on “Touch Grass”
- Mother’s Day recommendations from B+P reviewers
- OverDrive: “The romantasy trend showed up years ago”
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Call for submissions: A how-to guide for responding to government
- Recommended reads for Father’s Day
- Who’s eating publishers’ lunch? The rising costs and shrinking margins of Australian books
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- NielsenIQ Brazil reports encouraging market growth, colouring book trend
- Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers
- Bayt Al-Hikma: the first library in the Islamic world
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
- Books on the Rail’s Ali and Michelle in conversation
Top Rights news stories
Top stories over the past month in the Junior category
- ASA/HQ Fiction Prize 2026 shortlist announced
- A&U acquires Barry’s “The Big Steal”
- HarperCollins acquires Johnston nonfiction title “Fifty Beating Wonders”
- Upswell acquires Anatolitis’s “Who’s Afraid of Australian Artists?”
- A&U acquires Keane’s “Seize the Moment”
- “Pissants” to be adapted for television
- HGCP acquires “Sagittarius Rising”
- Bakers Lane acquires Strauss’s “Holding Space”
- Affirm Press acquires Byrt’s “Dying Days”
- Pink Shorts acquires Adameitis’s “Australianarama”, De Zilva’s “Sick Note”
Top 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
- (young_adult): For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin), stars, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert
- (fiction): Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (fiction): The Farm (Jessica Mansour-Nahra, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (younger_readers): The Making of Martha Mayfield (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Tenille White
- (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
- (fiction): Very Impressive for Your Age (Eleanor Kirk, A&U), stars, reviewed by Heidi Maier
- (nonfiction): The Man Who Planted Canberra (Robert Macklin, NLA), stars, reviewed by Michael Kitson
- (young_adult): What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (young_adult): A Guide to Falling Off the Map (Zanni L Arnot, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (nonfiction): Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth), stars, reviewed by Ellie Pope
- (nonfiction): 58 Facets: On law, violence and revolution (Marika Sosnowski, MUP), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (picture_book): Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas