If you ever wonder what books to choose for your child or what to read next, here is a very thorough and diverse list of titles released by The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA), the list of Notable Books for 2017. This provides some very good readers advisory for kids in all age groups. You can reserve the titles at our library. Continue reading
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Australian Romance Readers Awards 2016 winners
The winners of the 2016 Australian Romance Readers Awards, presented by the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA), have been announced, with Anne Gracie named Favourite Australian Romance Author for the second year in a row. Continue reading
2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal longlist
One Hundred Letters Home (Adam Aitken, Vagabond)
The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette)
Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Ghostspeaking (Peter Boyle, Vagabond)
Letters to Pessoa (Michelle Cahill, Giramondo)
Bull Days (Tina Giannoukous, Arcadia)
Ahead of Us (Dennis Haskell, Fremantle Press)
The High Places (Fiona McFarlane, Hamish Hamilton)
Music and Freedom (Zoe Morrison, Vintage)
Wood Green (Sean Rabin, Giramondo)
The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose, A&U)
Ruins (Rajith Savandasa, Hachette)
Reading inspires courage
Pages & Pages Booksellers will donate $1 from the following titles purchased to Australian Refugee Council. ‘The best weapon against fascism, Nazism and hateful ignorance is knowledge and books’ Pages & Pages says. Continue reading
Stella Prize 2017 Longlist
The Stella Prize is presented for the best work of fiction or nonfiction by an Australian women published in the previous calendar year. The prize is named after Miles Franklin, whose first name was Stella, and was inspired by the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
The longlist for the 2017 Stella Prize has been announced recently. Continue reading