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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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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