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Classic Beach Books List

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allFrom its 52 titles, ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ has collected the top votes and has announced its ten classic beach books. Parramatta City Library has all titles available for loan, including talking book and ebook formats.

According to the program the classic beach book are those book that ‘You see them everywhere, in caravan parks, holiday houses, milk bars, by the pool and on the beach. Those dog-eared favourites, encrusted with sand, salt and sunscreen, begging to be read time and time again. Those books that you associate with good times—even if they weren’t, technically, good books.’

A&NZ Writers Longlisted for Dublin IMPAC

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142 books have been nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. A number of Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Continue reading →

KOALAs 2014 Winners

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The winners of the 2014 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced.

The KOALAs are NSW’s annual children’s choice awards. The winners of this year’s awards were selected from the Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards shortlist, which also acts as a shortlist for the children’s choice awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), Victoria (YABBAs) and the Northern Territory (KROC Awards). Continue reading →

Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award 2014 Shortlist

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The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award has been announced by the Australian Human Rights Commission as part of the Human Rights Awards.

The shortlisted titles are:

The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements (UQP)

Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights (Right Now)

Is There No Place for Me? Making Sense of Madness by Kate Richards (Penguin)

Missing Christopher: A Mother’s Story of Tragedy, Grief and Love by Jayne Newling (A&U).