Congratulations to Tim Winton who last night picked up the Miles Franklin Award for the fourth time for his novel Breath.
“I’m stoked, of course, but also mindful that there are terrific writers who will be feeling pretty stiff tonight, because their books are more than good enough to have won,” said Winton.
“To some [...]
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Categorising books can be the kiss of death especially when it comes to so called young adult fiction. So many terrific books get ignored just because people get into a mind set of only reading in a certain category. So let me get it out there.
Mal Peet’s books are generally categorised as young adult fiction.
Don’t [...]
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You’d have to be living under a rock (in a coffin?) to have missed the tsunami that is Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga. Starting out a few years ago with a teenage girl cult following, this has since developed into a publishing phenomenon and it seems neither gender nor age is a barrier to its appeal. [...]
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Ever pick up a book and just know you have to hear those words out loud?
Well, l was the one last night sitting up in bed last night savouring every word of the opening chapters of Philipp Meyer’s American Rust. You can’t get much more praise for a debut novel than has been heaped upon [...]
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Marked: House of Night Book 1 (available now, new edition with cover featured available in May 2009).
When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change. But Zoey [...]
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