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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.
A new edition of Beatrice and Virgil, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi, is just out, so we’re making it our Friday Book Club pick this week!
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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