The Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing is going from strength to strength. We received over 300 entries to this year’s prize and after several weeks of reading and many discussions we have chosen a shortlist of five contenders for the 2011 prize.

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Our pick for Friday Book Club this week is Toni Jordan’s smart and sassy Addition.

Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts.

The letters in her name (19).

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Go the F**k to Sleep - read by Noni Hazlehurst from Text Publishing on Vimeo.

Noni Hazlehurst reads Go the F**k to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s and Ricardo Cortés' wildly successful picture books for adults.

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We’ve featured Traitor in Friday Book Club before, but we’re highlighting it again this week to celebrate Stephen Daisley’s win at the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

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Stephen Daisley has won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction for his astonishing debut novel, Traitor!

Traitor is a story of war and of love—how each changes everything, forever.

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Friday Book Club pick this week is Michel Faber’s intoxicating novel The Crimson Petal and the White, out now in a new tie-in edition to the BBC drama.

Sugar, an alluring 19-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life.

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Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne

Truth by Peter Temple

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

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Murray Bail’s acclaimed The Pages is our pick for Friday Book Club this week.

It was a privilege to be allowed into the mind of another person, the life work of another. She was curious to see what he had thought, what he had found. Already she respected his effort.

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