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What we're reading: Madeleine Thien, Liane Moriarty and Angela Pippos

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.

Robbie Egan is reading Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey

I am reading Abaddon’s Gate, the third book in the Expanse series. This series is set in a future fraught with tensions about interplanetary war. Earth and Mars are on the brink of conflict, and the spanner in the works is the discovery of…

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The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals longlists 2017

The longlists for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced.

The Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

In 2017 the Carnegie Medal reaches its 80th year and the Kate Greenaway Medal its 60th.

Here are the longlisted books for the 2017…

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Our top picks of the month for book clubs

For a candid conversation about sex in the internet age…

Future Sex by Emily Witt

Emily Witt is single, straight, and female, and after moving to San Francisco, she sets off on a quest for personal fulfilment. In these essays, Witt captures the experiences of going to bars alone, online dating and hooking up with strangers. From public health clinics to cafe conversations about ‘coregasms’, she observes the subcultures she encounters with a wry sense of humour, capturing them in…

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My best advice for girls who like sport

by Angela Pippos

These are exciting times for women (and girls) in sport.

Who’d have thought that the first AFLW game played a few weeks ago would be a lockout? Who’d have thought it would have won its timeslot on television – who’d have thought it would even have been broadcast – hang on a second – who’d have thought there’d even be a national women’s league? If you’d said three years ago that women would be playing in a league of their…

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Best new crime reads in February

by Fiona Hardy

CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman by Mindy Mejia

I’ve long been a sucker for American stories set away from the intensity of their cities and in the country’s open heart: those wide endless prairies; the sheriffs who know everyone and ride the thin line between being adored and feared; that down-home American cheesiness that hides an undercurrent of blood as much as the seeds of their farmland. Everyone is suspicious, and a suspect; everyone…

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Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week

Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy

The Midnight Gang by David Walliams and Tony Ross

In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek and Christine Roussey

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

Girl Stuff for Girls Aged 8-12 by Kaz Cooke

King’s Cage by Victoria Aveyard

Lion by Saroo Brierley (Young Readers’ Edition)

Unleashed (The Adventures of Dog Man Book 2) by Dav Pilkey

A Footy Girl’s Guide to the

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Our top ten bestsellers of the week

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

Lion by Saroo Brierley

Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Something for Nothing by Andy Muir

The Toorak Jackpot by Rosemary Macindoe

The Unfortunate Victim by Greg Pyers

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

Last week saw the launches of three Australian fiction debuts at our bookshops, and all three have made it…

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An interview with Edie Wright of Magabala Books

by Edie Wright

As Australian students and teachers return to school, one of the remotest publishing houses in the world, Magabala Books in Broome (WA) is gearing up to bring new Aboriginal perspectives to primary school classrooms all over the country.

With a grant of $33,550 from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, Magabala Books will soon deliver specially created teaching resources for 15 Indigenous stories, via the agency’s Reading Australia website.

Here we chat with Edie Wright, Chairperson of Magabala Books, about the…

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12 books to read in February

A Rightful Place edited by Shireen Morris

After more than two centuries, Australians are soon to decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In this essential book, several leading Indigenous writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. These eloquent essays from contributors such as Noel Pearson, Stan Grant, Rachel Perkins, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Pat Dodson show what constitutional recognition means, and what it could make possible. With clarity and power, they traverse law…

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International Dylan Thomas Prize longlist 2017

The 2017 longlist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, including a short story collection from Australian author Fiona McFarlane.

This Prize is run by Swansea University and is awarded to the best literary work in the English language written by an author under 40. The winning author will receive £30,000 (A$49,155).

The 12 longlisted titles for this year are…

The High Places by Fiona McFarlane

Pigeon by Alys Conran

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk…

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