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What we’re reading: Ullmann, Meddlings & Frazier
I’m very close to finishing an utterly engrossing novel, my first by the Norwegian writer, Linn Ullmann. Unquiet is categorised as fiction - and that’s certainly where we shelve it in store …
The 2021 winners of the Caldecott, Newbery & Printz awards
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tig…
Finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020
The finalists for this year’s National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) awards have been announced. The NBCC honours outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.
Below is the complete list of NBCC Award finalists for the publishing year 2020:
Fiction Inside Story by Martin Amis If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell How to…Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
During a week that annually…
The International Dylan Thomas Prize longlist 2021
The longlist for this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced.
This Prize is run in partnership with Swansea University and is awarded to the best literary work in the English language written by an author aged 39 and under. The winning author will receive £30,000.
The 12 longlisted titles are…
Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romal…Don’t miss two exciting online events with US YA authors
Join us at 11am on Sunday 24 January to hear YA superstar Angie Thomas discuss her writing career and brand-new novel with fellow author Leanne Hall.
What we’re reading: Haynes, Quinn & North
For someone who’s never read The Iliad (and truthfully, probably never will) I have a deep and abiding fascination for the story of the Trojan War. Pat Barker’s remarkable novel The Si…
Six terrific novels that reinvent the Western
Ada feels lucky – she loves her broad-shouldered husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But after a year of marriage with no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada has to fl…
Eight books to start conversations with kids this month
Australia is a big country with all sorts of weather – and sometimes extreme weather that causes bushf…