Title: Wild: a journey from lost to found
Author: Cheryl Strayed
Katherine’s Pick
Cheryl Strayed has written a mediative and insightful memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail which starts in California and ends in Washington State Oregon, a journey of eleven hundred miles, while carrying a backpack that she nicknames the “Monster” because it is so heavy. Like all good Journey stories, her inner journey is as important as her outer journey. Continue reading
AND THE WINNERS ARE
The Book of the Year – The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Best Fiction – Nine Days by Toni Jordan
Best Non-Fiction – QF32 by Richard de Crespigny
Best Debut Fiction – The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Best Children’s Book – Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
The Shortlist for the 2013 Australian Independent Bookseller Awards has been announced. Parramatta City Library has copies for loan. If you need to find out availability just click the embedded links with titles or authors.
The shortlisted books for the Indie Awards 2013 are: Continue reading
It’s festive time and also a time for enjoying books.
Wonder what to pick? Parramatta City Library has some suggestions. Continue reading
Dr. Anita Heiss has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Prize for Indigenous Writing, 2012 for her memoir Am I Black Enough for You?
Just as she wrote in her blog Anita Heiss talks again about her identity and why she wrote a memoir in a young age. Continue reading
Wondering what to read or what’s new, what’s popular? Here is our Spring Reading at Parramatta City Library.