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Harry Potter And The Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Amazinger Face by Zoe Foster

Open House Melbourne 2016

The North Water by Ian McGuire

When the Music’s Over by Peter Robinson

The Dry by Jane Harper

The Black Widow by Daniel Silva

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The eight Harry Potter story was released yesterday at exactly 9.01am and we celebrated with…

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A snapshot of our Harry Potter memory wall

Yesterday we celebrated the release of the eighth Harry Potter story. As part of the festivities, we invited readers to share their favourite Harry Potter memories, and here are just a few of the messages we loved best…

Harry Potter taught a small 11 year old dyslexic girl to read. Thank you. – A 25 year old.

I still remember the first time I read about Dumbledore’s death at the hands of Snape + being in absolute shock!

“After all…

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Dear Reader, August 2016

by Alison Huber

I feel very lucky that my time on Earth coincides with that of Maxine Beneba Clarke’s and her powerful talent. August brings us her much-anticipated memoir, The Hate Race, our Book of the Month. This book is a confronting story about the lived experience of racism in Australia. It’s honest, shocking, and will provide readers with an alarmingly familiar depiction of the casual and overt racism commonplace in the Australia of the 1980s and 90s. It should therefore make…

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What we're reading: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Megan Abbott and Ian McGuire

Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.

Stella Charls is reading You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

I seem to have spent a lot of time on this blog raving about Megan Abbott (see here and here). I only discovered her work last year and I subsequently felt obligated to share her with pretty much everyone I’ve crossed…

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Man Booker Prize longlist 2016

The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize has been announced. Longlisted authors include two-time Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, as well three debut novelists: David Means, Wyl Menmuir and Virginia Reeves.

Chair of the 2016 judges, Amanda Foreman, writes: ‘This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at times, passionate debate, challenging our expectations of what a novel is and…

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Ned Kelly Awards shortlists 2016

The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2016 shortlists for the Ned Kelly Awards for the best in Australian crime writing.

Here are the shortlists in each category:

Best Fiction

R&R by Mark Dapin

The Heat by Garry Disher

Fall by Candice Fox

Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty

Ash Island by Barry Maitland

Before it Breaks by Dave Warner

Best true crime

Certain Admissions by Gideon Haigh

The Sting by Kate Kyriacou

A Murder Without Motive by Martin McKenzie-Murray

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July in review

July saw our staff sharing recommendations for novels that imagine life in cults and communes, memoirs that examine depression and anxiety, and hot reads to help readers stay warm in winter – everything from heart-warming to heart-racing.

This month also saw the release of a new Liane Moriarty novel (here’s why you should read her books), and we published a short update from the Readings Foundation about one of the amazing projects they’re supporting in 2016.

This…

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Davitt Awards shortlists 2016

Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors.

Here are the shortlisted books in each category:

Adult novels

Medea’s Curse: Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist by Anne Buist

Fall by Candice Fox

Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill

Storm Clouds by Bronwyn Parry

Time to Run by J.M. Peace

Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

Young adult novels

In the Skin of

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