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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

Friday Book Club - The Women in Black

This Friday’s pick for Book Club is the marvellous revived classic, The Women in Black.

Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne

Truth by Peter Temple

Incognito by David Eagleman

The Game by Neil Strauss

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Samuel L Jackson reads Go the F**k to Sleep

For a limited time, you can download a free audio version of Go the F**k to Sleep, narrated by Academy Award-nominee Samuel L Jackson.

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

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Game by Neil Strauss

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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Griffith REVIEW events this week

Barbara Gunnell, John Langmore and John van Tiggelen will be in discussion with Griffith REVIEW associate editor David Winter at Monsalvat tomorrow evening. They will be discussing their essays from the latest edition of Read more

Friday Book Club - The Good Muslim

Book Club pick this week is the new release by Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning author Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

Truth by Peter Temple

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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Maurice Gee on the the shortlist for the 2011 LIANZA Young Adult Award

Congratulations to Maurice Gee, whose YA novel The Limping Man has been shortlisted in the Young Adult category in the Read more

Rest in Peace, Gil Scott-Heron

Musician, writer and political activist Gil Scott-Heron passed away in New York this weekend at the age of 62.

Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago.

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