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The Readings Young Adult Book Prize shortlist 2018
We couldn’t be more excited to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This is the second year of the Prize, which celebrates the best new writers in Australian Young Adult literature, and considers first and second YA books.
The six shortlisted novels are:
Untidy Towns by Kate O’Donnell
Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
Between Us by Clare Atkins
Nina…
A reading list for Emerging Writers’ Festival 2018
Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is just around the corner (19-29 June). Here are 10 books to read in preparation.
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
This is an unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside down…
Our children's & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks & Quinton Winter
The Mystery of the Magic Stones (Polly and Buster Book 2) by Sally Rippin
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (illustrations by Isabel Roxas)
Found in Melbourne by Joanne O'Callaghan & Kori Song
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
Butterfly on a Pin by Alannah Hill
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia by Sofija Stefanovic
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Our list of bestselling books from last week include two books that have been hotly anticipated…
The Golden Man Booker Prize shortlist
The shortlist for the Golden Man Booker Prize has been revealed. This special one-off award for Man Booker Prize’s 50th anniversary celebrations will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize.
The five books on the shortlist include…
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
Represents the 1970s / Selected by Robert McCrum
In a Free State tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has…
Picture books that celebrate naughty behaviour
Be warned! These fun, charming, hilarious picture books may inadvertently encourage naughty behaviour…
Errol! by Zanni Louise & Philip Bunting
Meet Errol, a stubborn red-beanie-wearing penguin. When Errol’s mum calls for him to follow her, he doesn’t listen. Instead, he goes and gets himself covered in the falling snow. While his distraught mum is left behind with a lone red beanie to despair over, Errol is busy underground having a totally awesome adventure. His cavalier attitude on his return (‘Come…
What we're reading: Tayari Jones, Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Ellen Cregan is reading The Book Ninja by Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus
This week I’ve been reading a debut Australian novel from co-authors, Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus. Berg and Kalus are the founders of the Books on the Rail project, which aims to get commuters off their phones and stuck into a book…
The Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist 2018
The 2018 longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.
This year’s longlist spans many genres of the novel, from historical to satirical, and includes three former Miles Franklin winners: Peter Carey, Michelle de Kretser and Kim Scott.
Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian of the State Library of NSW and head of the Award judging panel, says: ‘Whether dealing with disconnection, dispossession, the many varieties of grief and its resolutions, the violence done to those close or those unknown…
Olga Tokarczuk wins the Man Booker International Prize
Flights has been selected the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize. Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and English-language translator Jennifer Croft will share equally in the £50,000 prize.
Flights is a novel of linked fragments. This philosophical and highly imaginative work explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body.
Lisa Appignanesi, chair of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize judging panel, says: ‘Tokarczuk is a writer of wonderful wit, imagination and…
Eight events to attend at Emerging Writers’ Festival 2018
The program for the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival has been announced. The festival will run from 19-29 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD and surrounding suburbs. You can view the full program here, and you can find information about what special passes are available here.
Here are eight of our top picks from the program.
Ever-changing life-giver, uncontainable and irreplaceable. As necessary as air to sustain us, it follows no direction but its own bright grace…
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