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Musician, writer and political activist Gil Scott-Heron passed away in New York this weekend at the age of 62.
Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago.
Friday Book Club pick this week is M.J. Hyland’s brave and beautiful This is How.
When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town.
Stephen Daisley’s Traitor has done it again—after last week’s news of his win at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, we are now delighted to report that Traitor is on the shortlist in the fiction category for the Read more
Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson
The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
Truth by Peter Temple
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Its cover and design won Best of the Year at last night’s APA Book Design Awards, so it’s fitting that we turn our attention to Lloyd Jones' Hand Me Down World in this Friday’s Book Club.
A woman washes ashore in Sicily.
Our wonderful designer, Chong, won both Best Designed Cover of the Year and Best Designed Literary Fiction Book at last night’s Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards for his work on Lloyd Jones' Hand Me Down World.
Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson
Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
Truth by Peter Temple
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Zero Hour by Leon Davidson
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
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.
