Category Archives: Fiction

The CWA Gold Dagger Award Longlist 2013

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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 →

Ned Kelly Awards Longlist and Shortlist 2013

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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 →

The book thief – a review

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Title: The Book Thief

 Author:  Markus Zusak

Publisher: Pan McMillan, Australia, 2005

Staff Pick: Thanh

Read from the blurb of the book: “It is 1939.  Nazi Germany.  The country is holding its breath.  Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.”

Ah well, I said to myself, another Jewish story, in the line of The Schindler’s List, The Pianist etc…  Which reminds me of my good German friend Manfred.  He’s a gentleman, in the usual sense we understand, and in the literal meaning of a gentle, soft speaking, and decent soul.  Once, he said to me:  “Yes, during that time, Germany under Hitler did unspeakable evil, but the country never lacks of decent people, and ever since we try our damnedest that nothing of the sort ever happens again.  Why even now, a book, a movie crop up to point a finger at us again and again?” Continue reading →