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Top stories over the past seven days
- Writers boycott SLV over workshop cancellations
- Echo acquires Parker debut historical novel ‘Fulvia’ in two-book deal
- Grenville shortlisted for 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
- Pan Macmillan acquires two fantasy YA titles by Melbourne author in pre-empt
- Wheeler Centre 2024 Hot Desk Fellows announced
- Hardie Grant moves NZ distribution to TDLC
- Open Book 2024 interns announced
- ‘Enter Ghost’ wins Aspen Words Literary Prize
- Affirm acquires Hodge’s ‘Top Knocks’
- Hachette on AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for second year
Top stories over the past month
- Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
- S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
- ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024
- Hazard to leave Hachette
- Affirm acquires rights to Welgemoed cookbook
- BookPeople 2024 conference program announced
- Writers boycott SLV over workshop cancellations
- Stella Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- BookPeople Book of the Year longlists announced
- Hachette acquires Coburn YA verse novel ‘The Foal in the Wire’
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
- Hachette, A&U drop ins detail Roberts-Smith case
- Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
- Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
- ‘Immaculate’ wins 2023 Vogel
- Around 200 jobs to go at T&F
- CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced
- A&U announces Fagan resignation
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Top stories since 1 January 2024
- Penguin Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced
- Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
- Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced
- S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
- Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
- Australian Book Design Awards 2024 longlists announced
- ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024
- ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees
- Hazard to leave Hachette
- S&S acquires three titles by Heiss
- S&S announces staff restructure, new appointments
- CBCA 2024 shortlists announced
- CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced
- Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments
- Affirm acquires rights to Welgemoed cookbook
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Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
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- Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
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- Ashleigh Barton on ‘Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet’
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- Culture, pride and engagement: A report from the RISE program
Top feature articles over the past 12 months
- Angourie Rice and Kate Rice on ‘Stuck Up & Stupid’
- AI: The next, best editorial tool?
- Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
- Explainer: What are the costs and considerations of making audiobooks?
- Listen up: How booksellers are getting in on the audiobook boom
- Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
- Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
- Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
- Rising Stars on AI
- Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’
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- (fiction): Days of Innocence and Wonder (Lucy Treloar, Picador), stars, reviewed by Sonia Nair
- (fiction): A Woman of Courage (Tania Blanchard, HarperCollins), stars, reviewed by Anna Loder
- (young_adult): If You Tell Anyone, You’re Next (Jack Heath, Scholastic), stars, reviewed by Annie Waters
- (fiction): Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (nonfiction): Meatsmith (Andrew McConnell & Troy Wheeler, Hardie Grant), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (younger_readers): Kimmi: Queen of the dingoes (Favel Parrett, illus Astred Hicks, Lothian), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (fiction): Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s songs reimagined (ed by Kirsten Krauth, Fremantle), stars, reviewed by Megan Koch
- (picture_book): Eighteen Summers (Penny Harrison, illus Leila Rudge, Little Hare), stars, reviewed by Jacqui Davies
- (picture_book): Hunter on Holiday: A Big Trip Around Europe (Jessica and Stephen Parry-Valentine, illus Ashlee Spink, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Phil Lesnie
- (nonfiction): Big Mouth (Matt Preston, Viking), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
- (picture_book): Penguin Oh Penguin (Gladys Milroy, illus Helen Milroy, Magabala), stars, reviewed by Clare Millar
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- (nonfiction): A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Hannah Cartmel
- (younger_readers): Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin), stars, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin
- (picture_book): Good Night, Good Beach (Joy Cowley, illus Hilary Jean Tapper, Gecko Press), stars, reviewed by M H Alessandrino
- (picture_book): Nothing Alike (Zewlan Moor, illus Peter Cheong, Bright Light), stars, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
- (nonfiction): Engaging China: How Australia can lead the way again (ed by Jamie Reilly & Jingdong Yuan, SUP), stars, reviewed by Nathan Smith
- (nonfiction): Unfinished Woman (Robyn Davidson, Bloomsbury), stars, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato