Category Archives: Awards & Prize Lists

Stella Prize 2016 Longlist

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The Women’s Pages (Debra Adelaide, Picador)

The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)

Panthers and the Museum of Fire (Jen Craig, Spineless Wonders)

Six Bedrooms (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Vintage)

Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe)

A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories (Elizabeth Harrower, Text)

A Guide to Berlin (Gail Jones, Vintage)

The World Without Us (Mireille Juchau, Bloomsbury)

A Short History of Richard Kline (Amanda Lohrey, Black Inc.)

Anchor Point (Alice Robinson, Affirm Press)

The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood, A&U)

Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger (Fiona Wright, Giramondo).

Costa Book Awards Shortlist 2015

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book-awards-logoIn the hot summer days how nice if you can get a cuppa and enjoy reading your favorite stories? The 2015 Costa Book Awards have been announced it shortlist. The four titles for the 2015 Costa Novel Award are:

A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson, Doubleday)

The Green Road (Anne Enright, Jonathan Cape)

A Place Called Winter (Patrick Gale, Tinder Press)

At Hawthorn Time (Melissa Harrison, Bloomsbury).

Shortlists were also announced in the categories of First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book, which can be viewed on the Costa Award website http://www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards/costa-book-awards.

Parramatta City Library has those titles available for loan.

Man Book Prize 2015

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9781780745879The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest writing traditions in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world’s most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and publishers. In 2015, The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Committee was chaired by Michael Wood with the other judges: Ellah Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne.

The winner for 2015 is A brief history of seven killings by Marlon James. Reserve your copy of the winner and the shortlist now. The shortlist included 5 other tiles:

The Fisherman by Chigozie Obioma
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota