The 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners have been announced. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Cuckoo – a review
Title: Cuckoo
Author: Julia Crouch
Sarah P’s pick
Rose and Gareth live an idyllic life in the English countryside with their school aged daughter Anna and new baby Flossie. Then Rose’s oldest friend Polly calls from Greece to say her husband has died and Rose invites Polly and her two sons to stay with them, against her husband’s wishes. Continue reading
IMPAC International 2011 Dublin Literary Award
2011 IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award goes to Colum McCann for his novel Let the great world spin. The book has beaten off competition from 161 other titles, nominated by 166 public libraries from 43 countries. Continue reading
#readit2011 whodoneit – July reading
#readit2011 state wide (http://readit2011.wordpress.com/) reading challenge for July is ‘whodoneit’ – mysteries and crime reading. Parramatta City Library has come up with some interesting titles available from both fiction and non fiction collection. Those two bookmarks are for a start.