Category Archives: Fiction

2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction

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British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire, from 6 shortlisted titles.

Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family’s connection to the Islamic State, was described by the judges as a book that ‘spoke for our times’ and it ‘sustains mastery of its themes and its form’. ‘It is very readable, it’s extremely well written, it’s well plotted, it’s something that could easily be a brilliant television series or film,’

Other shortlisted titles were

 

Librarians Choice – June 2018

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There is a great mix of new fiction and non fiction in this months top 10 reads for June. Click any title below to reserve your book now, as chosen by public library staff around Australia.

The nowhere child – Christian White (Librarians’ Choice Favourite)
Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl.
As the mystery of Sammy’s disappearance unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards a tense, terrifying, and entirely unexpected climax.

Waiting for Elijah – Kate Wild
The love that I have – James Moloney
Less – Andrew Sean Greer
Eggshell skull – Bri Lee
Burning Fields – Alli Sinclair
The kiss quotient – Helen Hoang
The book ninja – Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus
April in Paris, 1921 – Tessa Lunney
Boy swallows universe – Trent Dalton

Librarians’ Choice – May 2018

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The top 10 May 2018 release books as voted for by library staff around Australia is here. There are a variety of genres in the list with the Australian Vogel Literary Award 2018 Winner – The Yellow House being one of them. Click on a title to reserve a copy now.

Whisper – Lynette Noni (Librarians’ Choice Favourite)

For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes… Subject Six-Eight-Four, ‘Jane Doe’, has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. Life at Lengard follows a strict, torturous routine that has never changed. Until now.
When Jane is assigned a new—and unexpectedly kind—evaluator, her resolve begins to crack, despite her best efforts. As she uncovers the truth about Lengard’s mysterious ‘program’, Jane discovers that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot.
…. And one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.

The yellow house – Emily O’Grady
The jade lily– Kirsty Manning
LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike) – Jay Kristoff
Lovesome – Sally Seltmann
The perfect mother – Aimee Molloy
Hot pursuit – Rebecca Freeborn
The making of Martin Sparrow – Peter Cochrane
Flames – Robbie Arnott
Staying – Jessie Cole