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What we’re reading: Disher, Papertalk Green & French
For a bit of escapism, I’ve been reading the new crime novel from Garry Disher. Consolation is the third in his series featuring Constable Paul Hirschhausen as he investigates crimes in the du…
30 literary prize winners to read these holidays
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to pa…
The Small Press Network Book of the Year Award shortlist 2020
Earlier this year the Small Press Network announced a new, annual award to be known as the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award. This year’s inaugural shortlist has just been revealed.
The 2020 shortlist includes…
blur by the by Cham Zhi Yi Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul by Pete Hay The Subjects by Sarah Hopkins When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over by Man…Attica Locke wins the Staunch Book Prize 2020
Congratulations to Attica Locke who has been named this year’s winner of the Staunch Book Prize for her latest novel, Heaven, My Home.
A gorgeously written and haunting work southern gothic crime that simmers with racial tensions, Heaven, My Home is part police-procedural and part family drama. Ranger Darren Mathews is part of a team investigating the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. His superiors ho…
Anti-Christmas reads for Grinches
As the social liberation of the 1960s finally ended in the chaos of Vietnam and Watergate, a faction of right-wing economic radicals were waiting, determined to claw ba…
Our favourite smart summer reads of 2020
If you aren’t afraid of confronting and taboo, then the new novel from the author of the cult hit Convenience Store Woman could be your ideal summer read. Natsuki lives a quiet…
The Costa Book Awards shortlists 2020
The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories – First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book – with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year.
Below is the full list of shortlistees in each category.
Best First novel
Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen The Family T…Books & games to keep the kids busy during the holidays
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
The first volu…