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Friday Book Club - Beatrice and Virgil

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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Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

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

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Third Annual Griffith REVIEW Fiction Edition: Call for Submissions

Griffith REVIEW’s highly anticipated third annual fiction collection explores islands, both geographical and personal.

Liao Yiwu Barred from Leaving China

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.

Friday Book Club - Bone by Bone

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.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold Truth by Peter Temple Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead by Neil Strauss The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Read more

Entries Open for the Text Prize

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

Friday Book Club - Hamlet, a Novel

This week’s Friday Book Club pick is John Marsden’s brilliant take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

We know the story. Hamlet’s father has just died. By the time they’ve filled in the grave his mother has remarried. Hamlet suspects foul play, and it’s troubling his spirit.

Friday Book Club - For Richer, For Poorer

Fancy a book group outing to the casino? Maybe you should first read this week’s Friday Book Club pick, Victoria Coren’s For Richer, For Poorer: A million-dollar love affair with poker.

When Victoria Coren was a kid her brother dealt her in to a game of poker.

Top Ten This Week
Top 10 Books Truth by Peter Temple The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead by Neil Strauss The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Read more

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