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Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Whispering Death by Garry Disher No Angel by Jay Dobyns Truth by Peter Temple Life of Pi by Yann Martel Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés Read more

Noni Hazlehurst Reads Go the F**k to Sleep

Go the F**k to Sleep - read by Noni Hazlehurst from Text Publishing on Vimeo.

Noni Hazlehurst reads Go the F**k to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s and Ricardo Cortés' wildly successful picture books for adults.

Friday Book Club - Traitor

We’ve featured Traitor in Friday Book Club before, but we’re highlighting it again this week to celebrate Stephen Daisley’s win at the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

An astonishing debut, Read more

Traitor wins the 2011 PM’s Literary Award for Fiction!

Stephen Daisley has won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction for his astonishing debut novel, Traitor!

Traitor is a story of war and of love—how each changes everything, forever.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson Whispering Death by Garry Disher Truth by Peter Temple Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver Read more

Friday Book Club - The Crimson Petal and the White

Friday Book Club pick this week is Michel Faber’s intoxicating novel The Crimson Petal and the White, out now in a new tie-in edition to the BBC drama.

Sugar, an alluring 19-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne

Truth by Peter Temple

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

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Friday Book Club - The Pages

Murray Bail’s acclaimed The Pages is our pick for Friday Book Club this week.

It was a privilege to be allowed into the mind of another person, the life work of another. She was curious to see what he had thought, what he had found. Already she respected his effort.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

Truth by Peter Temple

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

Read more

2010 WA Premier’s Book Awards Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the 2010 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards was announced today, and we’re delighted to report that it includes both Stephen Daisley and Leanne Hall.

Stephen Daisley has been shortlisted in the Fiction category for his astonishing debut, Traitor. Read more

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