The National Biography Award Shortlist 2017

Some readers love biography due to some fascinating personal stories or experience one can related to or just want to find someone and something really inspiring. Now we have a shortlist for the National Biography Award selected from 71 titles which should give some comfort for biography readers. Continue reading

The Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist 2017

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is Australia’s most prestigious literature prize and it reaches its 60 years mark this year.

This year the award shortlist has been decided. You can go to our library catalogue to reserve a copy for yourself.

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Ditmar Awards 2017 winners

The winners of the 2017 Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing were announced at the 56th Australian National Science Fiction Convention Continuum 13 in Melbourne.

Here are something for Aussie Sci-Fi fans.

Best novel

The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG)

Best novella or novelette

‘Did We Break the End of the World?’ (Tansy Rayner Roberts in Defying Doomsday, Twelfth Planet Press) Continue reading