And the WINNER is Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds
This year’s Stella Prize longlist has been announced and Parramatta City Library has ordered all titles. You can reserve online once they become available for loan. Continue reading
Category Archives: Recommended Reading
Wild – a review
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
Heartread – Feb Reading Theme
February reading theme is Heartread – sure, it’s a month for romantic reads.
Do you know this year marks 200 anniversary for Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and prejudice’?
Do you know how many books written by Jane Austen?
Would you like to read something else as ‘shades of love’?
Well, fine out those romantic shelves at Parramatta City Library.
The 2013 INDIE Book Awards Shortlist
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
Your favourite author
Booktopia is running a “your favourite Australia’s novelist’ voting and it has 75 great Australian authors on the list. Maybe you’d like to have a tick as well?
Well, if you want to have your vote counted, go to this to vote your favourite novelist.
The entire 75 authors are as following – just for your information 🙂 Continue reading