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Category Archives: Non Fiction
Jody’s 2013 a YEAR in BOOKS
As 2013 comes to an end now is the perfect time to share with everyone some of the great books I have read this year.
This year I discovered some really fantastic authors, like Liane Moriarty, Maria V. Snyder, Hannah Kent, Decorah O’Brien and Robin LaFevers. Some of these authors were recommended and others, I was lucky enough to pick up browsing the library’s shelves.
Some of my favourite books this year were written by Australian writers, they were: Continue reading
ParraPods
ParraPods has gone live!
ParraPods is Parramatta City Library’s Pod Cast.
Listen to our first episode, an Author Talk with one of Australia’s best selling authors Peter Fitzsimons.
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Stay tuned for many more fun and interesting pod casts from ParraPods.
Peter FitzSimons
In Nov Peter FitzSimons is coming to Parramatta Library for an author talk.
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is also a regular TV commentator, a former radio presenter (very successfully, with Mike Carlton on Radio 2UE) and is also a former national representative rugby union player. Peter is the author of 25 books, including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age, and biographies of Nancy Wake‚ Kim Beazley‚ Nick Farr-Jones‚ Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales. Peter is Australia’s biggest-selling non-fiction author of the last ten years. He was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations. Continue reading
Walkley Book Award Longlist 2013
The 2013 Walkley Book Award will acknowledge the work produced by an Australian journalist or writer, published in the year from September 1, 2012 to August 30, 2013.
Journalism has long been a breeding ground for fine authors. The Walkley Book Award celebrates the value and importance of journalism and acknowledges the proud line-up of Australian writers who have taken subjects of enduring topicality and consequence from news bulletins, eye-witness reporting, investigations and historical records and provided readers with expanded factual detail, revelation and greater clarity of analysis in book form.
This year the award has announced its longlist Continue reading