Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners
- Flanagan declines Baillie Gifford prize money
- Lloyd, Hart to launch Pink Shorts Press
- Australian authors launch Summer Reading for MPs campaign
- Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
- Amplify Bookstore opens physical store
- Wood launches communications agency
- Flanagan wins 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
- Yen Press joins Hachette, ADS for ANZ sales and distribution
- Inaugural DANZ festival announced
Top stories over the past month
- Hughes to leave Affirm, Blake and Besliev appointed publishing directors
- Heifetz, Gilliatt, McGuire, Slater form a4 Literary
- Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award
- Booktopia Group insolvent since at least 31 January; entities put into liquidation
- Left Bank Literary to dissolve
- Oliver children’s book withdrawn from sale
- Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners
- State Library of NSW 2024 fellowships announced
- Booktopia announces staff appointments
- Grundy to manage new Australia Institute imprint
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Booktopia in voluntary trading suspension
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
- Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
- Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
- NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
- Booktopia appoints administrators
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Booktopia orders not being filled ahead of first meeting with creditors
- MacDonald wins $50,000 Best Australian Yarn
Top stories since 1 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
- Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
- S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
- Former Hachette Livre CEO launches publisher, partners with S&S
- CBCA 2024 shortlists announced
- AFR reports new owner for Booktopia after 100 EOIs
- S&S acquires Affirm
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Teens and the ‘book slump’: Why we should diagnose a situation rather than an identity
- Melissa Garside on ‘Lexie Moon and the Word Burgling Bungle’
- Ali Gripper on ‘Saltwater Cure’
- Ali Gripper recommends
- Sophie Clark on ‘Cruel Is the Light’
- Amplify Bookstore’s summer reading recommendations
- Sophie Clark recommends
- Melissa Garside recommends
- Karina May recommends
- Karina May on ‘That Island Feeling’
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- AI: The next, best editorial tool?
- Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
- Ingram’s David Taylor on POD
- Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
- Rising Stars on AI
- The facts on 2024’s nonfiction releases
- Teens and the ‘book slump’: Why we should diagnose a situation rather than an identity
- Sharlene Allsopp on ‘The Great Undoing’
- New year, new books: Children’s and young adult stories from local publishers
- Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
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
- (younger_readers): Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin
- (younger_readers): Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press), stars, reviewed by Erin Wamala
- (fiction): The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Denise Jarrott
- (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): 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
- (picture_book): Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker), stars, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
- (fiction): The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Joy Lawn
- (fiction): A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (younger_readers): The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s), stars, reviewed by Karys McEwen
- (fiction): The Work (Bri Lee, A&U), stars, reviewed by Megan Koch
- (young_adult): Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm), stars, reviewed by Katy Briggs
- (fiction): The Beacon (P A Thomas, Echo), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (nonfiction): Jilya (Tracy Westerman, UQP), stars, reviewed by Melissa Mantle
- (fiction): Love from Scratch (Amy Hutton, S&S), stars, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman
- (picture_book): Country (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus Cheryl Davison, Wild Dog), stars, reviewed by Baran Rostamian