Title: All that I am
Author: Anna Funder
Katherine’s pick
This is another saga in the long list of Holocaust novels that chronicles the tragic history of human genocide. This novel is based on real events and real people and has an intriguing structure which shifts back and forth through time and characters. Continue reading
In September 2011 the Wednesday book club read Hugh Mackay’s ” What makes us tick? : the ten desires that drive us” Continue reading
The shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:
Best Crime Fiction
Prime Cut by Alan Carter
Line of Sight by David Whish-Wilson
The Old School by PM Newton
Best Fiction
The Half-Child by Angela Savage
The Diggers Rest Hotel byGeoffrey McGreachin
Bereft by Chris Womersley
True Crime
Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble by Geesche Jacobson
Wasted by Ross Honeywill
Honeymoon Dive by Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke
S D Harvey Short Story Award
‘Southern Hemisphere Blues’ by Robert Goodman
‘Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas for Vegans’ by A S Patric.
Lyn Hughes, the Sydney based author of Flock is coming to Parramatta City Library for a lunch time author talk on 3rd of August, from 1 -2 pm.
Born in Wales in 1952, Lyn spent eighteen years in South Africa before settling in Australia in 1982. Her three novels are – THE FACTORY (1990) which was shortlisted for the National Book Council’s New Writing Award; ONE WAY MIRRORS (1993) and THE BRIGHT HOUSE (2000). Lyn divides her time between Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
Lyn Hughes’s latest novel is proof that time is indeed an author’s best friend. Flock is a carefully crafted, in-depth hybrid of historical fiction and biography.
The 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners have been announced. Continue reading