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Vikki Wakefield’s Friday Brown and Alyssa Brugman’s Alex As Well have both been shortlisted in the Young Adult Fiction category of the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
One of the category winners will also be awarded the overall Premier’s Award, worth $25,000.
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Literary scenes recreated with lego.
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The 5 most shocking deaths in literature. Spoiler alert, I guess, though if you didn’t see Romeo and Juliet’s deaths coming I don’t know how to help you.
‘The most serendipitous moment was the night I went outside of a nightclub to get some air and found a brochure for a regional writers’ festival stuck to my shoe.’ Vikki Wakefield, author of the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards-shortlisted Read more
You can keep your socks, you can keep your hampers*, you can keep your generic re-gifted toiletry packs: all we want for Christmas is books, the bigger the better.
‘Schott offers a bespoke encyclopaedia on topics from ancient philosophy to contemporary literature: it’s bitty in size, but meaty in thought.’ Bella Place reviews Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition for Kill Your Darlings.
Clare Wright’s groundbreaking history of the Eureka Stockade has been attracting a lot of amazing coverage. Here are some highlights.
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13 clever signs that will make you want to buy a book.
A collection of the world’s most expensive books. But if you want the best books—and for a much better price—well, you know where to go.
Vikki Wakefield’s Friday Brown and Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John have been shortlisted in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, in the YA and Non-fiction categories respectively.
The stage adaptation of Kate Grenville’s Read more
‘Helen Trinca has written a remarkable book.’ Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, reviewed.
Ron Burgundy’s Ficciones: on real books by fake authors.
