Category Archives: Awards & Prize Lists

The Man Booker winner 2016

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Paul Beatty -The SelloutThe Man Booker has announced its 2016 winner today. Selected from 6 shortlisted authors, Paul Beatty‘s The sellout has won this year’s The Man Booker Prize, the first American writer to win the Man Booker prize, for a caustic satire on US racial politics that judges said put him up there with Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift.

From the judging panel:

“The Sellout is one of those very rare books: which is able to take satire, which is a very difficult subject and not always done well, and plunges it into the heart of contemporary American society with a savage wit of the kind I haven’t seen since Swift or Twain.” Continue reading →

Better Reading Top 100 Books 2016

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BR-TOP100Better Reading has released the 2016 Top 100 Book as voted by the Australian public – number 1 is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird! Is your favourite in the list?

The Top 50 Kids Books for 2016 list has also been announced – number 1, to no surprise is the classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

Why not reserve your favourite now via the Library Catalogue?

NEW Good Reading Resource Hub is launched!

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Good readingThe Good Reading Magazine has launched a new Resource Hub for book lovers to make reading the ‘Good Reading’ magazine easier and includes exciting interactive features. Access to the new resource is free to Library members, click here to access the Hub. When you click you will be taken to the homepage of the Resource Hub instead of the digital version of the magazine, you then sign up for a free membership with your email and chosen password. Once you sign up you will have access to:

 

 

 

  • Set up your own profile
    • Create a list of books you want to read
    • Create a list of books in your personal library that you’ve read
    • Recommend books to other readers
    • Write your own reviews and share them with other readers
  • Have access to the articles and reviews in all the magazines in a website format.  You will also have access to bonus exclusive interviews and stories just for online subscribers.
  • View the print magazine in a digital format. This is the same format as you have been viewing before.
  • Purchase books. For the convenience of readers they have connected their website with Booktopia, so you can purchase books.

 

2016 AusRom Today Reader’s Choice Awards now open

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Do you want to help celebrate Australian Romance Fiction? Why not vote now in the 2016 AusRom Today Reader’s Choice Awards – nominations are now open!

To nominate your favourite author and/or book, simply click here and choose the category you’d like to nominate in, one nomination per category per person. Catergories to choose from include: Best New Author, Best Established Author, Author of the Year, Cover of the Year and Book of the Year.

AusRomToday will compile nominated finalists for each award on 30th October 2016.  The ten most nominated nominees in each category will make it through to the public voting round.  These finalists will then be uploaded into voting albums on Facebook and open for public voting from November 1st.