Category Archives: Awards & Prize Lists

Walkley Book Award Longlist 2013

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The 2013 Walkley Book Award will acknowledge the work produced by an Australian journalist or writer, published in the year from September 1, 2012 to August 30, 2013.

Journalism has long been a breeding ground for fine authors. The Walkley Book Award celebrates the value and importance of journalism and acknowledges the proud line-up of Australian writers who have taken subjects of enduring topicality and consequence from news bulletins, eye-witness reporting, investigations and historical records and provided readers with expanded factual detail, revelation and greater clarity of analysis in book form.

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Nobel goes to Alice Munro

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alice munroCanadian writer Alice Munro wins 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature 2013 for her short stories. As the jury praised her ‘‘finely tuned storytelling, which is characterised by clarity and psychological realism”. Many of Munro’s stories are set in Huron County, Ontario. Her strong regional focus is one of the features of her fiction. Another is the omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world.
82 years old Alice Munro has written about 14 short story books and has won Man Booker International and Commonwealth Writers Prize in previous years and many other awards.

Parramatta City Library has some of Alice Munro‘s titles for loan.

Last Thursday Book Group – Foal’s Bread

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26th September 2013

foalsTitle: Foal’s Bread

Author: Gillian Mears

Book Summary

The long-awaited new novel from the award-winning author of THE GRASS SISTER tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and the high-jumping horse circuit prior to the Second World War. A love story of impossible beauty and sadness, it is also a chronicle of dreams ‘turned inside out’, and miracles that never last, framed against a world both tender and unspeakably hard.  Set in hardscrabble farming country and around the country show high-jumping circuit that prevailed in rural New South Wales prior to the Second World War, FOAL’S BREAD tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land. It is a love story of impossible beauty and sadness, a chronicle of dreams ‘turned inside out’, and miracles that never last, framed against a world both tender and unspeakably hard. Written in luminous prose and with an aching affinity for the landscape the book describes, FOAL’S BREAD is the work of a born writer at the height of her considerable powers. It is a stunning work of remarkable originality and power, one that confirms Gillian Mears’ reputation as one of our most exciting and acclaimed writers.

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Get Reading! 2013 is here

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Australia’s largest celebration of books and reading, Get Reading! is back in 2013 with the ultimate guides to the best Australian reads. Along with the traditional Top 50 Books You Can’t Put Down, in 2013 Get Reading! has collated a list of Australia’s Top 100 Favourite Homegrown Reads, exclusively voted for by subscribers, fans and friends of Get Reading!
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