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Prime Minister’s Literacy Awards 2012 winner announced

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister Simon Crean today announced the winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards-

Australian writers who write books about Australia.

Fiction winner –Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears

Poetry winner –Interferon Psalms by Luke Davies

Non-fiction winner –An Eye for Eternity: The Life of ManningClark by Mark McKenna

 Prize forAustralian History –The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aboriginies Made Australia by Bill Gammage

 Young Adult fiction winner – When We Were Two by Robert Newton

Children’s fiction winner –Goodnight, Mice!, written by Frances Watts and illustrated by Judy Watson  

 

 

Second Tuesday Evening Book Club- Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

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This week the Second Tuesday Evening Book Club met to discuss Hans Fallada’s novel Alone in Berlin, also published under the title of  Every man dies alone. This novel is set in Berlin 1940. Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he’s shocked onto an extraordinary act of resistance, and starts to drop anonymous postcards attacking Hitler across the city. If caught, he will be executed. Excerpt from BACK COVER.

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Jasper Jones – a book review

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Title: Jasper Jones

Author: Craig Silvey

Jenny’s pick

On a sweltering summer night in an Australian country town, 13 year old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his bedroom window. Jasper Jones is the outcast of the town who desperately needs Charlie’s help. Charlie barely knows Jasper, but trusts him enough to climb out into the night and follow Jasper deep into the bush. What he finds is shocking and alarming, but what Jasper asks Charlie to help him do will put a brick in Charlie’s stomach that will not shift. Continue reading →

Stolen – a book review

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Title: Stolen

Author: Lucy Christopher

Hiba’s pick 

I would often daydream as a child what would happen if I ever got kidnapped or lost. It happened once. Getting lost of course. So when I picked up this book having heard Lucy speak at the Sydney Writers Festival school event at Riverside Theatres Parramatta I knew I would be in for a moral joyride. Continue reading →

2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlist

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It’s time to celebrate Australia literature – Australian writers who write books about Australia. It’s always amazing to see Australia is not only a sports nation but a nation of diversity, imagination and creation.

 

 

 

 

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