The winners of the 2025 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced, with John Farnham and Poppy Stockell’s The Voice Inside taking top honours as the overall Book of the Year. Narrated by Gaynor Wheatley, Jill Farnham and John Farnham, The Voice Inside also won in the Biography and Audiobook of the Year categories.
The ABIA Awards are presented annually for achievements in bringing Australian books to readers, and this year marks the 25th anniversary of the awards. The winners were announced at a star-studded ceremony in Melbourne on 7 May. Congratulations to all the honourees!
Winner: Book of the Year, Audiobook of the Year, Biography Book of the Year
At last, the unflinching and unforgettable memoir of music and life from the much-loved Australian legend.
Winner: The John Marsden Book of the Year for Older Children (ages 13+)
Holly Jackson meets Agatha Christie in this cosy modern-day YA murder mystery where your closest family are your prime suspects.
Winner: Children’s Picture Book of the Year (ages 0–6)
Some cats are house cats. Some are apartment cats. But Tinka is a truck cat. Tinka lives everywhere.
Winner: General Fiction Book of the Year
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other.
Winner: General Non-fiction Book of the Year
From the must-listen journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the nation’s favourite brands brought itself to ground.
Winner: International Book of the Year
The Time Traveller's Wife meets David Mitchell meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow meets Kate & Leopold in this debut novel from an award-winning writer.
Winner: Literary Fiction Book of the Year
In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, they reluctantly join the hunt.
Winner: Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
‘I have always known that to be hot is to be powerful. For most of my life, I just took it as the way things are, a fact not worth interrogating since it’s so obviously true.’
Winner: Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year
Ralph sat up. His voice was croaky. ‘If a shooting star zoomed past right now, what would you wish for?’
Winner: Social Impact Book of the Year
The incredible story of 2024 Co-Australian of the Year, Richard Scolyer, as he uses his groundbreaking melanoma science to fight his own 'incurable' diagnosis with brain cancer.
Winner: The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year (for an author’s first book, regardless of genre)
Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever listen to.
