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Entries open for the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature
Entries for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015 and Awards are now open.
The Melbourne Prize runs on a three-year awards cycle, alternating between literature, music and urban sculpture. This year, the focus returns once more to books, and includes an exciting new $20,000 prize for an essay.
Valued at more than $100,000, the prize and awards offered this year are…
The $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015, which is awarded to a Victorian published author whose body of…
The Miles Franklin Shortlist 2015
The 2015 Miles Franklin shortlist has been announced. Right now, you can receive a 10% discount on any of these five books using the promo code MILES. Simply apply the code in the final payment stage of online checkout. This special offer is only available online until midnight this Wednesday 20 May.
The shortlisted books are:
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett – Read our review
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna – Read our review
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Beyond Literal Belief: Religion As Metaphor by David Tacey
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (translated by Simon Pare)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer
Enchanted Forest by…
Gerard Elson wins Young Bookseller of the Year
St Kilda staff member Gerard Elson was named Young Bookseller of the Year at the 2015 ABA Conference last night. We’re enormously proud.
Here, he tells us his favourite books to handsell and why publishers must continue to be ‘daring’.
What are your favourite books to handsell to customers?
Two books I always enjoy sending to good homes are Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Sarah Bakewell’s genial but sagacious biography of Michel de Montaigne: How to Live: A Life of…
Meet two more stars of the Readings Children's Book Prize Shortlist
Both of these authors were driven to write their debut children’s books through a personal experience that they wanted to share with a young audience. For one of them, it was time spent far away from home working in an orphanage that triggered the idea for the story, while the other took her drawing journal on a camping trip up the Glenelg River and from there decided to embark on her first graphic novel.
Meet Tamsin Janu and Trace Balla.
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What we're reading: Amelia Gray, Judy Blume and Stephanie Bishop
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.
Nina Kenwood is reading In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
I was lucky enough to nab one of the much sought-after advance copies of Judy Blume’s new novel, her first book for adults in over 15 years. Just the words ‘Judy Blume’ evoke comfort in me. Along with most of the adult…
Read along with the 2015 Sydney Writers' Festival
The Sydney Writers Festival kicks off on 18 May, and the program is chock-full of exciting authors. To celebrate the line-up of international guests, we’ve put together ten books to read if you want to get into the festival spirit. (And we’ve made a note if the international guest is also appearing in Melbourne…)
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
What it’s about: As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology…
The KonMari Method: On The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying
The first thing you need to know about Marie Kondo is that she is insane. The second thing you need to know is that she’ll change your life (sort of).
I bought her bestselling book about tidying, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, at the start of the year because I was determined that 2015 was going to be different. I am someone with little to no interest in cleaning, and my boyfriend is a very messy person by nature…
Best new crime in May
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH:
The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango
Claus Moreany’s publishing house is on the verge of going under when his distractingly beautiful employee Betty discovers unknown author Henry Hayden’s manuscript in a pile. Frank Ellis becomes a runaway bestseller, subsequent books sell millions, and Hayden becomes a wealthy man living in a beautiful house with his lovely wife, a sporty-looking dog and the magazine spreads to prove it. All is well until the day…
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
The Strays by Emily Bitto
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Double Act: The Remarkable Lives & Careers of Googie Withers & John McCallum by Brian McFarlane
One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville
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