Belinda Castles has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Hannah and Emil. From the publisher Allen & Unwin, we know this book is Continue reading
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Man Booker 2013 Winner announced
Man Booker has announced its 2013 winner, the youngest ever winner, Eleanor Catton for her 2nd novel The luminaries.
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2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award Shortlist
Information from http://asiasociety.org/about/awards/bernard-schwartz-book-award, Five books recognized for their outstanding contributions to the understanding of Asia have been chosen as finalists for the 2013 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award. The finalists were selected from over 100 nominations submitted by U.S. and Asia-based publishers for books published in 2012. The books are: Continue reading
John Button Prize Shortlist 2013
Well, it is the election time, so you might be interested in reading books that are shortlisted for this prize – John Button Prize for writing on Australian politics and policy. The shortlist includes 3 titles and they are:
- Reluctant Rescuers: An exploration of the Australian border protection system’s safety record in detecting and intercepting asylum seeker boards 1998-2011 by Tony Kevin (self-published)
- Quarterly Essay 47, Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott by David Marr, (Black Inc.)
- Don’t Go Back to Where You Came From: Why Multiculturalism Works by Tim Soutphommasane, (NewSouth).
Reluctant rescuers:
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2013
Man Booker Prize Longlist for this year has come up and it is made up by 13 titles.
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate)
We Need New Names by No Violet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta)
Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador)
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris (Sandstone Press)
The Kills by Richard House (Picador)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod ( Hamish Hamilton)
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury)
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson (Mantle)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking)