Monthly Archives: March 2018
What’s New in HSC & JSC
HSC students have been working double hard for their last school year and so has Katherine. She’s purchased a lot new educational books to satisfy study and examine needs. Of course the Library didn’t forget younger students as there are plenty for kids from K – year 10 and for new school curriculum.
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Peter Temple – Rest in Peace
It is sad news for crime fiction readers, yesterday we learned about the demise of Peter Temple the critically and popularly acclaimed author of the “Jack Irish” novels, Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point and White Dog, which later were developed into a TV series. Peter Temple was admired and respected by fellow writers and was awarded the “Golden Dagger Award” in 2007 for perhaps his most celebrated novel the Broken Shor He also won a swag of “Ned Kelly” awards for crime fiction and the Miles Franklin award for his novel Truth.
Regarded by critics and fellow writer as a master of sparse and poetic prose, he also had an ear for naturalistic “Aussie” dialogue and wrote compellingly of the beauty and harshness of the Australian landscape. The characters in his books are “knockabout blokes” quite often flawed but always memorable.
He was working on his last novel when he passed away, hopefully it will be published and we will have the opportunity to read one last novel by the master of Australian crime. Rest in Peace Peter Temple.
2018 Australian Book Industry Awards Longlist
Stella Prize Shortlist & Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2018
I know we’re in the post International Women’s Day. However we can celebrate women’s writing all year long. There are remarkable women’s writers who write for women and also for the humanity as whole. The women’s prize for fiction and Stella prize are two important literary awards and I’m sure you’ll enjoy any of those books listed.
The Stella Prize celebrates Australian women writers achievement and the shortlist for 2018
