Category Archives: New Arrivals

The 13th Davitt Awards Longlist

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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

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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 →

National Biography Award Shortlist 2013

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bio shortlist  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

Working for Rudd, James paints a colourful picture of the machinations of government and shows how far the party has moved from the idealism and pragmatism of his father’s generation. He ends on a note of hope for the Party’s revival. Continue reading →

The Warwick Prize for Writing

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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 →

Miles Franklin Award Winner

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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 →