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Leon Davidson Shortlisted for 2011 CBCA Book of the Year

Leon Davidson’s Zero Hour: Anzacs on the Western Front has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books category.

Friday Book Club - Campaign Ruby

Jessica Rudd has been nominated for a ‘Fun Fearless Female’ Award by Cosmopolitan magazine so we thought we’d feature her smart and sassy debut novel Campaign Ruby as this week’s Book Club pick.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Truth by Peter Temple

Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones

The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead by Neil Strauss

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

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Friday Book Club - Life of Pi

Filming of Ang Lee’s highly anticipated adaptation is now underway, so Yann Martel’s Booker Prize–winning masterpiece Life of Pi is our Friday Book Club pick this week.

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books Truth by Peter Temple Here on Earth by Tim Flannery Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Game by Neil Strauss The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Read more

Another French Award for Peter Temple!

Following the news last week of Peter Temple’s Beaune International Thriller Film Festival award, we’re delighted to announce that he has also won the 2011 BibliObs/Nouvel Obs Prix du roman noir étranger for In the Evil Day (Un monde sous surveillance).

Friday Book Club - Serena

The Friday Book Club pick this week is Ron Rash’s unforgettable Serena.

The year is 1929 and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire.

Peter Temple Wins French Award

Peter Temple’s In the Evil Day (published in France as Un monde sous surveillance) has won the Grand Prix du roman noir étranger at the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival.

Friday Book Club - Blue Skies

This week, we’re shining a spotlight on the brilliantly creepy and blackly funny Blue Skies by Helen Hodgman.

Originally published in 1976, Blue Skies is the story of a young wife and mother stuck in stultifying suburbia.

Top 10 This Week
Top 10 Books

Truth by Peter Temple

Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones

Here on Earth by Tim Flannery

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

The Game by Neil Strauss

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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