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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.

Friday Book Club - This is How

Friday Book Club pick this week is M.J. Hyland’s brave and beautiful This is How.

When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town.

Stephen Daisley Shortlisted for the 2011 PM’s Literary Awards

Stephen Daisley’s Traitor has done it again—after last week’s news of his win at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, we are now delighted to report that Traitor is on the shortlist in the fiction category for the Read more

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones

Truth by Peter Temple

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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Friday Book Club - Hand Me Down World

Its cover and design won Best of the Year at last night’s APA Book Design Awards, so it’s fitting that we turn our attention to Lloyd Jones' Hand Me Down World in this Friday’s Book Club.

A woman washes ashore in Sicily.

APA Book Design Awards 2011

Our wonderful designer, Chong, won both Best Designed Cover of the Year and Best Designed Literary Fiction Book at last night’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards for his work on Lloyd Jones' Hand Me Down World.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

Truth by Peter Temple

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Zero Hour by Leon Davidson

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

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Leon Davidson Wins at the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards

Many congratulations to Leon Davidson, whose fantastic history of the Anzacs on the Western Front, Zero Hour, won in the non-fiction category at last night’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.

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Go the F**k to Sleep—A Book for Parents Who Live in the Real World

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Stephen Daisley Wins at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Congratulations to Stephen Daisley, who won the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards!

Stephen won for his beautiful debut novel of love and war, Traitor. You can listen to Stephen discuss Read more

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