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2011 Australian Vogel’s Awards

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Recently Allen & Unwin has announced the winner of 2011 Australian Vogel’s Award. This award is for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. This year the award goes to Rohan Wilson for his book ‘The roving party’.

 According to Allen & Unwin The roving party is ‘A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw. ‘

Parramatta City Library will have a fast track order to get this book for its readers.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Under the Influence – a review

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Title – Under the influence

Author – Jacqueline Lunn

NSW, Vintage Books, 2011

Sarah’s Pick

Three girls meet at boarding school in Sydney’s North Shore. Meg is the daughter of a widowed sheep farmer from western NSW. Eve’s parents run the chemist shop in a country town. And Sarah can see the roof of her house from the boarding school but has been sent there by her busy professional parents. The story gives a good account of teenage girls and life in a boarding school. The girls share a secret about another girl from school- the popular and beautiful Rebecca. This secret changes the girls. Continue reading →

Daughters-in-Law – a review

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Title: Daughters-in-Law

Author: Joanna Trollope

London : Doubleday, 2011  

Sarah’s pick 

Rachel is married to Anthony and the mother of three sons. She has devoted her life to bringing up her sons in Suffolk, giving up her career to focus on her family. But now they are all adults and married and Rachel struggles with the changes in her family. The daughters-in-law now have more influence over her sons than she does and the family starts to drift apart. Continue reading →