Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature has ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding and lifelong contribution to Australian literature’ and it awarded Helen Garner for her dedication to literature this year.
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards highlight the importance of literacy and distinguished achievement by Australian writers. The shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. You can also vote for the People’s Choice Award now.
The shortlisted titles in each category are:
Book of the Year winner
Deep time dreaming (Billy Griffiths, Black Inc.)
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
The Life to Come (Michelle De Kretser, A&U) – Winner
The Everlasting Sunday (Robert Lukins, UQP)
Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
The Shepherd’s Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction Continue reading
A quick update from Australian Romance Readers Awards that 2018 winners have been announced. For those who love reading romance, I’m sure, you’ll find one of your favourite. Continue reading
PAPER CHAINS
About the Book
A heart-warming story of family, friendship and forgiveness – and the crazy twists of fate that shape our lives…
Hannah and India are new best friends. Although true friendship means always telling each other the truth, doesn’t it…?
Hannah, you see, is running from her life back in Sydney. Now in London, she’s trying to put the past behind her, and finding this amazing new friend is a positive step forward. If only she could stop punishing herself for what she did.
India knows Hannah is hiding something big, and she’s determined to figure it out. Fast.
Because India has a secret of her own… One that is currently sealed in a love letter that’s making its journey across Europe in the most unconventional way.
Before it reaches its destination, can India help Hannah learn to forgive herself? And will Hannah wake up and realise that India needs rescuing too …?
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/paper-chains-9781742752624
Comments
As the rating (4/10) indicates, Paper Chains is ok. A vanilla romance about two young Australian women, India and Hannah who meet by chance in London. Both are running away from a traumatic event in their lives which they don’t wish to reveal.
Paper Chains is a competently written, perfectly adequate book. Would prefer a more challenging read for a book club title. Will be interested in reading the comments of other book clubs.
An enjoyable ‘light’ read.
4/10
Ready by
Dundas Readers
The longlist for the 2019 Stella Prize has been announced and City of Parramatta Libraries have all 12 titles for loan.
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