For very little babies, you can’t go wrong with a soft, squishy cloth book. The Wee Gallery cloth books are among some of the classiest, and Friendly Faces in the Forest and Friendly Faces at the Farm are adorable.

Flashcards with high-contrast illustrations a…

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The shortlist for the 2018 Voss Literary Prize has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

Launched in 2014, the Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, and…

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November has arrived and the Christmas cheer is drawing ever-nearer… Let us help make shopping during this year’s festive season as easy and painless as possible!

Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing our curated gift guides, sharing our top 10 best books, CDs and DVDs of the year, and releasing our annual Summer Reading Guide which is always jam-packed with recommendations. We’ll also be …

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The Wilderness Society has revealed the winners of this year’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature. This award is presented annually to fiction and nonfiction books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife in young Australians’ and ‘encourage a sense of responsibility for our natural world’.

Here are the winners for all three categories…

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Not many of you will have heard of Patricia O’Donnell, who sadly passed away last month, and that’s the way she liked it. However, she had a huge impact on Melbourne’s cultural and culinary life that needs to be recognised. My first recollection of meeting Trish was during the Queenscliff Carnival of Words, which Trish initiated. I’d originally known Trish’s sister, Mietta, the proprietor of Miet…

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The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA).

The three shortlisted books are:

All the 2018 submissions were no…

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The winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2018 is Pulse Points by Jennifer Down.

The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, now in its fifth year, is awarded to a work of fiction by an Australian author. Authors’ first and second works of fiction are eligible for the prize. The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is one of three literary prizes that Readings awards…

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Congratulations to Anna Burns who has been named the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction!

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Milkman is a timely and original novel about a young woman trying to avoid the attentions of an influential and much older man – Milkman.

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to k…

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The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have today been announced. These awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia.

Here are the full shortlists…

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