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Saturday, August 21st, 2010The Bookseller +Publisher has given a four-star (Excellent) rating to My Australian Story: The Phar Lap Mystery by Sophie Masson, published by Scholastic. In 1930 someone tried to shoot Phar Lap, and in her latest novel, Sophie Masson splices fact and fiction together seamlessly to present a narrative that is both informative and entertaining. The [...]
2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Shortlists
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Congratulations to my authors whose work has been shortlisted in this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards. Harry & Hopper, by Margaret Wild (with Freya Blackwood) has been shortlisted in the Children’s fiction category, and The Winds of Heaven by Judith Clarke, and Swerve, by Phillip Gwynne, have both been shortlisted in the Young adult category.
Laura Buzo: Good Oil
Sunday, May 16th, 2010‘I feel about this manuscript the way I felt about the first draft of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi. Here is a fresh, beautiful, young contemporary voice, a new writer with wonderful potential and a novel you can fall in love with. It is told in two voices — 15-year-old Amelia and 21-year-old Chris and [...]
Lian Tanner: The Keepers Trilogy
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010It has been an exciting twelve months for Tasmanian children’s author, Lian Tanner, as these items from the Publishers Lunch website show: June 5, 2009 Children’s: Fantasy Lian Tanner’s Museum of Thieves, the first in a trilogy about a young girl who escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains [...]
Kathleen Stewart: Men of Bad Character
Monday, March 15th, 2010From the acclaimed author of The After Life comes a compelling novel about modern love and dangerous liaisons. When Rose’s eighteen year relationship ends in the most shocking and unexpected way, she emerges from years of what she thought was love and realises the extent to which she was being emotionally manipulated and controlled. While [...]
Margaret Wild & Nina Rycroft: No More Kisses
Sunday, February 14th, 2010No More Kisses is the new picture book by Margaret Wild and Nina Rycroft, to be published by Little Hare in April, 2010.
Les Murray: Taller When Prone
Friday, January 22nd, 2010A poem from the new collection. Fame We were at dinner in Soho and the couple at the next table rose to go. The woman paused to say to me: I just wanted you to know I have got all your cook books and I swear by them! I managed to answer her: Ma’am they’ve [...]
Top Ten Best Book listing for The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Congratulations to Catherine Jinks, whose novel, The Reformed Vampire Support Group, has just been selected by the prestigious American Library Association as one of the 2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults.
Kate Jennings: Trouble: Selected Writings 1970-2010
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009The cover for Kate Jennings’s new book, Trouble: Selected Writings 1970-2010, which is to be published by Black Inc. in 2010. In 1970 Kate Jennings, 21, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put “women’s lib” on the map. Brave, impassioned and searingly sarcastic, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic [...]
Laura Bloom: In the Mood
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The beautiful cover for Laura Bloom’s novel, In the Mood, which is to be published by Viking/ Penguin Australia in February, 2010. It’s February 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. Home is a pretty weather-board house in Summer Hill, where his wife, Catherine, is waiting. They haven’t seen each other for [...]
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