Every year, we readers wait for our Aussie’s most prestigious literary award – Miles Franklin Award. As the most of those writers we’re familiar with, some of them might be relatively new, like Fiona McFarlane and her debut The night guest. However they’re all good Aussie writers. This year’s longlist has been announced recently. As for the winner, well, you can make up your own mind. Continue reading
The longlists for the 2014 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international fiction, poetry, anthologies and graphic novels written for young adults.
http://insideadog.com.au/blog/presenting-2014-inky-awards-longlist
Romance fiction is always a major reading genre in our library as a lot people read romance for pleasure or for escape from their daily stress. Recently Australian Romance Readers Awards 2013 announced its winners. If you’re a romance reader and are wondering what to read next, then this winners’ list is certainly worth to go through. Continue reading
The silkworm authored by Rober Galbraith, is J K Rowling‘s new crime fiction.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days – as he has done before – and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives – so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes
a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before.
Parramatta City Library has ordered some copies and waiting for its publishing. You can reserve it online.
Do your like reading romance? Would you like to know how writers come up with plots and stories? Then this is an evening for you. Continue reading