The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s first and most prestigious literary award, has released the nine novels selected for the 2011 Longlist: Continue reading
Category Archives: Australian Authors
2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlists
The shortlists for the 2011 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Continue reading
The Cattleman’s Daughter – a review
The 2nd Tuesday evening book group read the novel ‘The Cattleman’s Daughter’ by Rachael Treasure for February 2011.
Here were some of their thoughts: Continue reading
Dog boy – a review
Title: DOG BOY
Author: EVA HORNUNG
MELBOURNE, TEXT PUBLISHING, 2009
Katherine’s pick
This novel is an engrossing story of a young boy who becomes a member of a family of dogs. The setting is Moscow, and the child is abandoned by the adults in his life in a derelict block of flats. The four year old boy stays inside the shambles of rooms which is his home for a week, but once he has eaten everything he can find, he wanders into the icy streets and eventually follows a dog who is the matriarch of a family of wild dogs. Continue reading
What makes us tick – a review
Author: Hugh Mackay
Title: What makes us tick?: the ten desires that drive us
Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2010
Yan’s pick
Hugh Mackay is an Australian leading social researcher. He devotes most of his times to listening to others. Others dreams, conversations, hopes and fears all become the natural materials for his books. Continue reading