Information from http://asiasociety.org/about/awards/bernard-schwartz-book-award, Five books recognized for their outstanding contributions to the understanding of Asia have been chosen as finalists for the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. The finalists were selected from over 100 nominations submitted by U.S. and Asia-based publishers for books published in 2012. The books are: Continue reading
Category Archives: Awards & Prize Lists
John Button Prize Shortlist 2013
Well, it is the election time, so you might be interested in reading books that are shortlisted for this prize – John Button Prize for writing on Australian politics and policy. The shortlist includes 3 titles and they are:
- Reluctant Rescuers: An exploration of the Australian border protection system’s safety record in detecting and intercepting asylum seeker boards 1998-2011 by Tony Kevin (self-published)
- Quarterly Essay 47, Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott by David Marr, (Black Inc.)
- Don’t Go Back to Where You Came From: Why Multiculturalism Works by Tim Soutphommasane, (NewSouth).
Reluctant rescuers:
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2013
Man Booker Prize Longlist for this year has come up and it is made up by 13 titles.
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)
We Need New Names by No Violet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)
Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris (Sandstone Press)
The Kills by Richard House (Picador)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod ( Hamish Hamilton)
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)
The 13th Davitt Awards Longlist
61 books by Australian women are competing for the Davitt Awards presented by Sisters in Crime Australia. The Awards set up 22 years ago, were created by Sisters in Crime Australia – an organisation that aims to bring Australian women together who write crime and mystery. Categories this year include Best Novel (Adult); Best Novel (Children’s and Young Adult); Best True Crime Book; Best Debut Book (any category) and Readers’ Choice (as voted by the 600 members of Sisters in Crime Australia). This year, the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award will also be awarded.
You can check Parramatta City Library online catalogue to see the availability of the titles. Continue reading
The CWA Gold Dagger Award Longlist 2013
From The Crime Writers Assosication UK, a list of eight titles have been listed for this year’s Gold Dagger Award. Australian author Michael Robotham has his ‘Say you’re sorry’ listed and we wish him good luck.
The International Dagger is shared between two French authors Fred Vargas and Pierre Lemaitre; and Andrew Taylor has won an unprecedented third CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger with The Scent of Death.
Parramatta City Library has some copies available for loan. You can click the links to be directed to our library online catalogue or the authors/titles: Continue reading