This year, The National Reading Hour will be held on the 19th August at 6pm-7pm. Parramatta City Library strongly supports the message behind The Reading Hour and hope you manage to pick up a book to read to a child at this time and also every day, from birth. Just ten minutes a day, or an hour a week will help to share a love of reading with your child (or any child for that matter!) and will help them be ready for school and be more successful while they are there. Continue reading
Man Booker Longlist 2014
I know I often look for a good book to read from one list to another, and wonder what will be the next amazing one I’d love. Of course I wouldn’t dismiss any books listed by the Man Booker. In fact it has produced some very good books. Now the longlist for this year, 2014, has been announced. Richard Flanagan, the famours Aussie writer, is one of 13, longlisted for his The narrow road to the deep north.
If you’re not sure which one you’d like to read, why not try and borrow one or two from your local library, Parramatta Library?
I know you can’t judge a book by its cover. But you’d be glad to see some very good book covers. Here we are – all the book covers and all the titles. I just have to mention that all blurbs are from http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2014/jul/23/man-booker-prize-2014-longlist-in-pictures Continue reading
The Kings Curse
The Kings Curse (The Counsin’s War #6) by Philippa Gregory
Out September 2014
Book Summary
The final novel in the Cousins’ War series, the basis for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries, The White Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author and “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory tells the fascinating story of Margaret Pole, cousin to the “White Princess,” Elizabeth of York, and lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon. Continue reading
Dragon’s tail – review
It was lovely weather on the weekend, I could’ve gone out and had fun which I did a little bit, but I was more intrigued to stay in and read by this issue of Quarterly Essay and its main feature article ‘Dragon’s tail: the lucky country after the China boom‘ by Andrew Charlton. I spent my weekend reading his 70 pages long essay because I am not only interested in his view of what has happened to Australia’s economy – (mining boom economy) but I also anxious of what might happen next. Continue reading
CWA Daggers 2014
If you have a passion for crime fiction, now this it just for you.
This year CWA has announced its winners for this year’s Daggers. The Diamond Dagger goes to Simon Brett. The CWA Diamond Dagger is selected from nominations provided by CWA members. Nominees have to meet two essential criteria: first, their careers must be marked by sustained excellence, and second, they must have made a significant contribution to crime writing published in the English language, whether originally or in translation. Continue reading