Are you a fan of crime reads, fictional or other wise? Well, the following titles longlisted (and shortlisted) on this year’s Ned Kelly Awards are the best productions by Australian crime writers. You can click the links to see availability at Parramatta City Library.
Sitting under the sun now, but feel the chill. Continue reading
This year’s National Biography Award shortlist has been announced. They are all interesting books. Our library has some titles available for loan and will order other titles soon.
Speechless: a year in my father’s business by James Button
The Warwick Prize for Writing was launched in 2008 and is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize is given every two years for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form. Continue reading
The Sri Lanka born author Michelle de Kretser has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her book ‘Questions of travel’ has been decided from all female writers’ shortlist for its “witty and poignant observations” in the vivid language to deal with many issues that Australian society concerned, such as home and away, travel and tourism, refugees and migrants. Continue reading
2013 Australian Book Industry Awards have announced its winners. Sometimes I do feel the awards from the industry might be biased on best sellers list rather than literary values. However when you look the list of winners there are some good reads there. Surely you’d appreciate and enjoy reading them.
Parramatta City Library has all the titles for loan and title’s like The light between oceans has been discussed by one of our reading groups The 1st Wed Reading Group and the group’s comments are on the blog. Continue reading