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August in review
Our big news this month was the announcement of the 2016 shortlist for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction!
The Readings Prize considers first and second books from Australian authors, and aims to recognise exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature.
The six shortlisted books are Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh, The High Places by Fiona McFarlane, Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison, Wood Green by Sean Rabin, Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa and Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar.
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On any single day, Cleaver Greene is described as many things. Whilst his ex-wife may call him unreliable, his son will call him a mate. To his learned friends at the bar table he is a real wag, to his jurors he is hilarious, and to most judges he is an outrage. To the Tax Office, he is a defendant; to a certain…
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist 2016
We’re delighted to announce this year’s shortlist for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction!
The Readings Prize considers first and second books from Australian authors, and aims to recognise exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature.
The six books shortlisted for this year’s Reading Prize tell stories of complicated families, of relationships good and bad, of desire and ambition, humour and heartbreak, identity and loss. The shortlist includes two short-story collections and four novels, and their settings range…
Read an extract from Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
by Zoë MorrisonWe’re delighted that Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
Oxford, England, October 3rd, 2005
I knew what the sound was when I heard it, but I didn’t believe it. It could have been anything, I told myself, a bell tolling in the…
Read an extract from Wood Green by Sean Rabin
by Sean RabinWe’re delighted that Wood Green by Sean Rabin is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
Michael gripped his shins and bent his head towards his knees. The panic in his chest refused to be rationalised or contained, and infiltrated the extremities of his body with every shudder and lurch…
Meet the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist 2016
We’ve announced the shortlist for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2016. Here, we introduce the six shortlisted authors.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
Julie Koh
Julie Koh was born in Sydney to Chinese-Malaysian parents. She studied politics and law at the University of Sydney, then quit a career in corporate law to pursue writing. Portable Curiosities is her debut story collection.
Read an extract from The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
by Fiona McFarlaneWe’re delighted that The High Places by Fiona McFarlane is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from ‘Exotic Animal Medicine’, one of the stories in the collection.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
The wife was driving on the night they hit Mr Ronald.
‘My first drive since getting married,’ she said.
‘First this, first that,’ said her…
Read an extract from Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
by Rajith SavanadasaWe’re delighted that Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
It was dark by the time we got to Battaramulla. The lane was full of vehicles. We parked among the brand-new Benzs, BMWs and Pajeros all lined up with drivers waiting. Mano started fussing over…
Read an extract from Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
by Julie KohWe’re delighted that Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is one of the stories from the collection: ‘The Three-Dimensional Yellow Man’.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
It was only when a one-dimensional yellow man stepped out of a cinema screen and into a plush red theatre on George Street that audience members noticed him from…
Read an extract from Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
by Lucy TreloarWe’re delighted that Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Here is a short extract from the novel.
Find more information about this year’s shortlisted books (including the judges’ report) here.
The journey to that place was like moving knowingly, dutifully, towards death. I have seen beasts as resigned. People say it is not so, that they are ignorant to the end, but this is…
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