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Celebrated Australian author, Kate Grenville, has released her latest book today, A Room Made of Leaves, with Text Publishing.
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The longlist for New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel has been announced for 2020, featuring a range of diverse and exciting stories and heroines to match.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of The Shadow of the Wind, has passed away at age 55.
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Australian artist Shaun Tan has become the first person of colour to win the Kate Greenaway medal for his book Tales from the Inner City.
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Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, is set to release a tell-all book with Simon and Schuster later this year.
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The shortlist for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award has been announced, and features a range of talented Australian authors and captivating novels.
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Australian author Jane Harper has been shortlisted for the British-based Theakston’s Old Peculier 2020 Crime Novel Award.
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Australian author Jesse Blackadder passed away last Wednesday at age 56, six months after her diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
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JK Rowling is set to publish a new children’s book this year, and has decided to make it free online before the hard copy is released, aiming to give children in lockdown something to read.
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Covid-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus and the race for the vaccine by award-winning science journalist, Dr. Michael Mosley, will be released this Friday and is now available for... View More»
Civica and the Australian Library Information Association are launching the 2020 Civica Libraries index today in celebration of Library and Information Week. The index is an insightful list of Australia and New Zealand’s most... View More»
It’s been a great week for Australia’s favourite fictional blue heeler, with Bluey: The Beach winning the ABIA Book of the Year Award, and now
The 2020 ABIA awards were held earlier this week in an online service that was streamed via YouTube. This year saw iconic children’s book, Bluey: The Beach, win... View More»
A return to classic young-adult fiction series seems to be the flavour of 2020, with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins releasing further installments to their series in the... View More»
Popular 2013 novel, The Luminaries, has been adapted into a six-part miniseries, filmed in New Zealand, and soon to be released in Australia.
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The shortlist for the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) has been announced today, with the announcement of the winners only a few short weeks away.
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Tasmanian writer K.M. Kruimink has been announced this week as the winner of The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for 2020.
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Popular American author Mitch Albom is currently writing a free, serialised story called Human Touch in order to raise awareness for coronavirus relief in his home city, Detroit.
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Fans of poetry will be pleased to hear that a range of new poems about the coronavirus pandemic are being published by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Australian publishing company Hardie Grant has taken action on piracy after their new release, A Bigger Picture, the memoir from ex-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, was found to be illegally sent as an e-book prior to publication.
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Jess Hill’s ground-breaking investigative book, See What You Made Me Do, has won the $50 000 Stella Prize for... View More»
The team at Nosy Crow publishing has put together a digital children’s book about the coronavirus, hoping to make it an easier concept for children to wrap their heads around.
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We know you need a way to entertain your kids at the moment, so the gr team has pulled together some free activities you can download for your little ones!
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar has now been shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
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The annual Emerging Writers’ Festival will take place online this year, with social distancing measures meaning large events have been canceled.
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As you look for things to read and watch over the isolation period, we thought we'd bring you Clive Hodges' reviews of Jeremy... View More»
Are you after your next high-quality read? Check out the books rated 5 stars in our March issue.
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FAVEL PARRETT’s novel, There Was Still Love, has been announced as the 2020 Indie Book of the Year. There Was Still Love is Parrett’s third novel, following on from When the Night Comes and Past the Shallows.
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Australian Children's author Margaret Wild has been awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
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The shortlist for the annual Stella Prize has been announced, featuring a range of fiction and non-fiction books, and an anthology of short stories.
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A young boy from the UK has received an outpouring of support from authors, bookshops and celebrities once they learned he had been bullied for his love of books.
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The ultimate Australian book festival will be taking place in the quaint country town of Clunes, Victoria this May.
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Iranian author Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
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Sarah Epstein of Walker Books Australia has won the Young Adult Fiction Award at the Adelaide Festival for Literature for her debut novel,
Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning book, No Friend but the Mountains, will be adapted into a film with an... View More»
Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code fame will publish his first children’s book this year, bringing in elements of music and technology in order to create a full experience for his new, young readers.
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Sphere is set to publish the story of Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who is now 99 years old.
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Australian novel The Trespassers by Meg Mundell has been added to a United Nations (UN) reading list centred on sustainability... View More»
Fancy a fab read? Check out the books rated 5 stars in our February issue.
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Ursula Dubosarsky has been announced as the Children's Laureate for 2020-21.
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The 2020 Stella Prize longlist was announced late last week, showcasing a range of memoir, fiction, short stories and non-fiction.
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Kitty Flanagan has won Booktopia’s inaugural Favourite Australian Book Award for her 2019 book, 488 Rules for Life.
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Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell will release his long-awaited new book, Utopia Avenue, later this year.
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A Canadian bookstore is facilitating the adoption of local kittens by letting them roam through the shop and meet the customers as they shop for books.
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The' Queen of Suspense', bestselling crime/thriller author Mary Higgins Clark, has died aged 92.
Mary Higgins Clark worked as a Pan Am flight attendent before she married Warren Clark and began a family.
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Hachette Australia has announced they will be working with accomplished Australian journalist, Jennifer Byrne, to publish her first novel.
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Check out our Q&A with Levi Pinfold, award-winning illustrator behind the 20th anniversary Hogwarts House edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Normal People, the award-winning novel by Sally Rooney, has been adapted into a television series by Hulu and BBC Three.... View More»
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has been named the UK’s favourite historical novel via a poll conducted by the Walter Scott Prize.
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