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Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson
Truth by Peter Temple
The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
Griffith REVIEW’s highly anticipated third annual fiction collection explores islands, both geographical and personal.
Liao Yiwu, author of The Corpse Walker, and other true stories of life in China, was scheduled to attend the Sydney Writers' Festival later this month. Chinese authorities have since barred him from leaving the country.
Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
Our Friday Book Club pick this week is Tony Johnston’s Bone by Bone.
David is nine. He knows all the bones of the human body. When he was born, his father hung a skeleton in his room and taught him the names, bone by bone by bone. David is going to be a doctor like his father.
Today marks the official start of the 2011 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. You have until 3 June to finish your manuscript and get it in to us for consideration for this year’s Prize.
The winner of the 2010 Text Prize was the post-apocalyptic action novel Read more
This week’s Friday Book Club pick is John Marsden’s brilliant take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
We know the story. Hamlet’s father has just died. By the time they’ve filled in the grave his mother has remarried. Hamlet suspects foul play, and it’s troubling his spirit.
Fancy a book group outing to the casino? Maybe you should first read this week’s Friday Book Club pick, Victoria Coren’s For Richer, For Poorer: A million-dollar love affair with poker.
When Victoria Coren was a kid her brother dealt her in to a game of poker.
Leon Davidson’s Zero Hour: Anzacs on the Western Front has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books category.
