Book News
Interview with Maryrose Cuskelly
INTERVIEW WITH MARYROSE CUSKELLY – AUTHOR OF THE CAMPERS Recently, QRC was fortunate to be able to interview Maryrose Cuskelly about her new book The Campers. Queensland Reviewers Collective: Your previous book The Cane, centred on the disappearance of Janet McClymont, was inspired by the true-life disappearance in 1972 of Marilyn Wallman in Mackay. The Cane explored the reverberations
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 The Wheeler Centre has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The shortlisted works in one of the categories are: Fiction ($25,000) The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text) The Echoes (Evie Wyld, Vintage) Highway 13 (Fiona McFarlane, A&U) * Host City (David Owen Kelly, Puncher & Wattmann) Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser,
Dublin Literary Award 2025 – Longlist
Dublin Literary Award 2025 Several works by authors from Australia and New Zealand have been longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$165,236). The Australian and New Zealand longlisted titles include: At the Grand Glacier Hotel (Laurence Fearnley, Penguin) Audition (Pip Adam, Giramondo) Death of a Foreign Gentleman (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) The
Indie Book Awards 2025
Australian independent booksellers have nominated their favourite Australian books of 2024 and are thrilled to announce their SHORTLIST for the Indie Book Awards 2025! Announced early in the award calendar year, The Indie Book Awards are now considered the forerunners of all major Australian book awards. The Awards cover the best Australian books in six
Longlist Indie Book Awards 2025
Australian independent booksellers have nominated their favourite Australian books of 2024 and are thrilled to announce their Longlist for the Indie Book Awards 2025! Since 2008, the Indie Book Awards have celebrated the very best in Australian writing and who better to nominate and judge the best-of-the-best than indie booksellers? These passionate and knowledgeable booksellers
2024 Award Winners
2024 Walkley Book Award Andrew Fowler has won the 2024 Walkley Book Award for Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (MUP). Walkley judges said: ‘Andrew Fowler’s razor-sharp analysis uses extensive research and interviews to explore the government’s diplomatic betrayals, alliances and failures, and reveals a complete lack of transparency in major decisions involving gigantic sums