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Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Popular TV shows of 2020 paired with books
Try… The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. As an adult she embarks on a quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis - th…
What we’re reading: Osman, Jansson & Kerr
I am notoriously bad at keeping up with all of the wonderful YA releases we get each year - typically I only read one or two. This year I did a little better, and one of the awesome titl…
My five favourite reads of 2020
Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself, ‘How have I never read this author before?’ It’s magical, this feeling of discovery, and you immediately want to share it with those around you. I had t…
Pete Hay wins the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award 2020
Tasmanian writer and environmentalist Pete Hay has been named the winner of the inaugural Small Press Network Book of the Year Award for his stunning essay collection, Forgotten Corners. Published by Walleah Press, this work brings together Hay’s essays that have been published since 2003 and is an urgent, timely read for us all.
The judges commented: ‘Tasmanian poet Pete Hay’s Forgotten Corners…
My five favourite reads of 2020
This atmospheric middle grade fantasy contains many of my favourite things: folk tales, sentient animals, maps…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
What we’re reading: Clarke, Moreno-Garcia & Mantel
Thank goodness for Hilary Mantel this year. In 2020 I have read/re-read over 2000 pages of her writing and the release of her final book in the Wolf Hall trilogy was so exciting that I …
Tara June Winch wins the Voss Literary Prize 2020
Tara June Winch has been named the winner of the 2020 Voss Literary Prize for The Yield.
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains, and he is now determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. His granddaughter, August G…