The National Biography Award presents the best works of personal lives in Australia. It showcases true Australia and those who have made this country so unique and dynamic.
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Davitt Awards 2018 Shortlists
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.
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What’s new – ANF
Accompanied by our reading Meerkat, Katherine is talking about some new non fiction books and will there be a book for you? Watching the video
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2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire, from 6 shortlisted titles.
Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family’s connection to the Islamic State, was described by the judges as a book that ‘spoke for our times’ and it ‘sustains mastery of its themes and its form’. ‘It is very readable, it’s extremely well written, it’s well plotted, it’s something that could easily be a brilliant television series or film,’
Other shortlisted titles were
- The Idiot (Elif Batuman, Penguin)
- The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Imogen Hermes Gowar, Harvill Secker)
- Sight (Jessie Greengrass, John Murray)
- When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (Meena Kandasamy, Atlantic)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury)
2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award
It’s never too late to recommend good reads. So there it is for this year’s important literary award in Australia.
This year Miles Franlin longlist has listed these authors for their wonderful works
Peter Carey – A Long Way From Home
SYNOPSIS: Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever quite survive. Continue reading