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The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing is going from strength to strength. We received over 300 entries to this year’s prize and after several weeks of reading and many discussions we have chosen a shortlist of five contenders for the 2011 prize.
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.
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
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.
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
