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The 2024 Age Book of the Year winners

The 2024 Age Book of the Year winners have been announced! The awards celebrate outstanding Australian literature and include prizes for both fiction and nonfiction.

Tony Birch has won the Fiction prize for his novel, Women & Children, while Ross McMullin has won the Nonfiction prize for Life So Full of Promise.

The judges for this year’s awards…

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2024 Pulitzer Prize winners announced

Writers Jayne Anne Phillips, Jonathan Eig, Ilyon Woo and Nathan Thrall were announced last night amongst the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Jayne Anne Phillips won the Fiction prize for her novel, Night Watch; Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo jointly won the biography prize for their respective works, King: The Life of Martin Luther King and Master Slave Husband

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Our books of the month, May 2024

Explore our books of the month for May; each of the below titles has been read and recommended by our booksellers before being selected as our book of the month for its category.

FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey

Reviewed by Joe Murray, Readings Kids

'Where Only the Astronauts is most powerful is in…

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