Nam Le’s The Boat has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction.
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Nam Le’s The Boat has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction.
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If you follow this blog you will already know how much I love Stitches: A Memoir by David Small. I was most interested to see this week that the US Publishers Weekly magazine has chosen it as one of the 10 books that really stands out from everything else published this year.
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First it was The Hunger Games, now it is Catching Fire. I haven’t seen this month young adult enthusiasm since the early days of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight phenomenon. In fact, Ms Meyer herself is a big fun of Suzanne Collins’ nail-biters.
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The 2009 Man Booker Prize short list – there is thundering narrative, great inventiveness, poetry and sharp human insight in abundance.
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Black Water Rising is a near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterisations and an action-oriented plot.
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