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

Penguin Literary Prize In 2017, Penguin Random House Australia established the Penguin Literary Prize to discover, nurture and develop literary fiction writers, providing a unique platform for new and diverse voices to emerge. Offering aspiring authors the chance to become a part of the Penguin Random House (PRH) community, the winner of the Penguin Literary

Award Winners In the UK, Rachel Cusk has won the £10,000 (A$19,605) Goldsmiths Prize for Parade (Faber), a novel that ‘offers an enigmatic and thought-provoking meditation on art, gender and the complexities of selfhood’, according to the prize organisers. Chosen for the prize from a shortlist of six, Parade is the fourth of Cusk’s novels to be nominated for the Goldsmiths

Author photograph by Fabio De Paola An Interview with Minette Walters – author of The Players – by the Queensland Reviewers Collective Queensland Reviewers Collective: In the historical fiction genre, there can be a tension between a novel’s historical authenticity and the fictional narrative.  How does an author resolve that tension – to remain true to

WINNER OF THE RICHEST INDIVIDUAL LITERARY PRIZE IN AUSTRALASIA ANNOUNCED  The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) announced the winners of the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024 at a celebratory event at NSW Parliament House on Wednesday, 23 October. Offering the richest individual literary prize in Australasia, with a prize pool of $150,000, the awards recognise

The longlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Odd Couple: The Australia-America Relationship (Allan Behm, Upswell) Quarterly Essay #93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.) Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe) Mine Is the Kingdom (David Hardaker,