What's New
25 August 2010 - 
Get Reading! 2010 - Australia's largest annual celebration of books and reading kicked off again on 25 August until 30 September and we are participating - ask in store for more details - or send us a message.
20 August 2010 - Childrens Book Council Awards - The 2010 winners were announced, with the winners being Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen - Older Readers, Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch - Younger Readers, Bear & Chook by the Sea by Lisa Shanahan and Illustrated by Emma Quay - Early Childhood, The Hero of Little Street by Gregory Rogers - Picture Book, and Australian Backyard Explorer by Peter Macinnis - Eve Pownall Award.
27 July 2010 - Man Booker Prize long list announced - A total of 138 books were considered for the Man Booker long list, which includes 2 by Australian authors. The longlisted books are: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey; Room by Emma Donoghue; The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore; In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut; The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson; The Long Song by Andrea Levy; C by Tom McCarthy; The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell; February by Lisa Moore; Skippy Dies by Paul Murray; Trespass by Rose Tremain; The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas; and The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner.
To quote the judges: "Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain."
The 2010 shortlist will be announced on 7 September and the winner will be revealed on Tuesday 12 October.
15 July 2010 - Prime Minister's Award shortlists announced - The Prime Minister's Literary Awards, held annually, recognise literature's importance to our national identity, community and economy. The 2010 Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fiction and Children's Fiction shortlists have been announced. Nine children's fiction and seven young adult fiction works, as well as seven fiction and six non-fiction works have made the 2010 shortlist, selected from more than 320 entries.
Fiction titles are: Summertime by J. M. Coetzee; The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster; The Lakewoman by Alan Gould; Dog Boy by Eva Hornung; Ransom by David Malouf; Lovesong by Alex Miller; and As the Earth turns Silver by Alison Wong. See all the lists here.
9 July 2010 - ALS Gold Medal Winner announced - Ransom by David Malouf has been named the winner of this year's Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Ransom beat The Darwin Poems by Emily Ballou, The Lost Life by Steven Carroll, Dog Boy by Eva Hornung and The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy to take out the important award.
The annual award is presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for 'an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year' and was first awarded in 1899.
