Top stories
Top stories over the past seven days
- Copyright: APA, ASA oppose expansion of exceptions; Aus material “being ripped off by foreign players,” says minister
- ABA 2026 conference program announced
- Women’s Prize for Nonfiction 2026 shortlist announced
- Newcastle Writers Festival kicks off tomorrow
- APA, Melb Uni launch second Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion
- Bakers Lane acquires Jones’s “Swimming Backwards”
- Text acquires Szubanski memoir
- “A strong year” locally as PRH global earnings down 4.7%
- Local bookshop numbers double for 2026 “crawl”
- BookUp conference and research day dates announced
Top stories over the past month
- Penguin Literary Prize 2026 shortlist announced
- Silvey charged with new offences, alleged collaborator charged
- SLQ to end management of QLAs and black&write! fellowship
- Stella Prize 2026 longlist announced
- Wiley acquires Zahner’s social media critique
- S&S acquires world rights to Barry quartet
- Australian Book Design Awards 2026 shortlists announced
- MWF releases 2026 program and ventures into the suburbs
- Hachette acquires Sunday’s “Kill to Love”
- Sydney Writers’ Festival program announced
Top stories over the past 12 months
- Atria acquires BookToker Bateman debut
- Two Australian libraries named among world’s most beautiful
- Hachette acquires McNab’s true crime ‘Recipe for Murder’
- Keeperton acquires Belan’s debut
- 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
- Clunes Booktown Festival announces 20th anniversary program
- Adult fiction stands out in 2025 US book trade roundup
- Survey of creative industries’ working conditions launched
- Silvey charged over child exploitation material
- Hazel Rowley Fellowship shortlist announced
- Claims of hypocrisy levelled over AWW as Abdel-Fattah invitation reissued
- Writing Australia announces 2026 VIPs
- A&U acquires book based on “The Inventors” series
- Jones retires from Abbey’s
- CBCA 2026 Notable Books announced
- Writing Australia announces North America Publishers’ Program delegates
- Local authors feature in UK and US shortlists
- Mildura Writers Festival director, board changes
- Besliev and Blake promoted at Simon & Schuster
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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
- Natalie Kon-yu and Emily Booth on the “unintended knock-on effects” of publishing diversity initiatives
- Book Club – this month’s reads
- Junior Book Club – this month’s reads
- Zoe Gaetjens on “Drawing Nudes While Making Other Plans”
- “Building Collections”: An excerpt from “The Library That Made Me”
- Bookseller’s diary: Clunes and the pleasures of re-homing vintage books
- Magnum Book Services: “Specialist book logistics support matters”
- Zoe Gaetjens recommends
- Chloe Wilson on “The Thornbacks”
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
- Unfolded podcast seeks to ‘go inside what makes a story great’
- Seattle Public Library: Breaking down barriers
- 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
- (young_adult): Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge), stars, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
- (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
- (nonfiction): The Man Who Planted Canberra (Robert Macklin, NLA), stars, reviewed by Michael Kitson
- (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
- (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
- (picture_book): Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press), stars, reviewed by Jess Lomas
- (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