Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Oliver wins €6000 Moth Poetry Prize
- ABIA 2026 business award shortlists announced
- Bloomsbury reorganises its global publishing business
- Ball appointed UQP publishing director
- The Age Book of the Year 2026 shortlists announced
- NSW Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Publisher of Patterson memoir to be revealed in “coming weeks”
- HGCP acquires “Sagittarius Rising”
- Paragraph Fellowship to award two prize winners from 2026
- Hans Christian Andersen Award 2026 winners announced
Top stories over the past month
- ABIA 2026 book award shortlists announced
- Oliver wins €6000 Moth Poetry Prize
- SWF responds to bookseller criticism
- Stella Prize 2026 shortlist announced
- ABIA 2026 business award shortlists announced
- Australian Book Design Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- Bloomsbury reorganises its global publishing business
- CBCA 2026 shortlist announced
- Ball appointed UQP publishing director
- The Age Book of the Year 2026 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
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books 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
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- local news
- international news
- library news
- international library news
Top features
Top feature articles over the past month
- Australian Book Design Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- SWF non-compete clause “a disaster for independent bookshops”
- “We want to trust authors”: Local publishers on “Shy Girl” implications
- Bookseller’s diary: Clunes and the pleasures of re-homing vintage books
- “Timing and luck” sees cohort of local publishers still attending Bologna
- Ingram: “Forecasting demand has become more challenging for retailers”
- Copyright Agency: “The cat-and-mouse dynamic has not disappeared”
- Waving through windows: Insights from the “Reaching Australian Readers” report
- Scribble inspires a new-look Australian stand for Bologna
- Mary Colussi on “Touch Grass”
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
- Global Book Crawl a ‘success’ in Australia
- Mother’s Day recommendations from B+P reviewers
- IPEd 2025: Editors as changemakers
- Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
- Meet the ABDA Emerging Designer of the Year shortlistees: Emi Chiba
Top Junior stories
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
- (fiction): The Secret Year of Zara Holt (Kimberley Freeman, Hachette), stars, reviewed by Lisa Schuurman
- (picture_book): Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas