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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

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

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 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,

2024 Ned Kelly Awards Winners The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious recognition honouring published crime fiction and true crime writing. The categories are Best Crime Fiction, Best Debut Crime Fiction, Best True Crime and Best International Crime Fiction. Entries are accepted for books published in the 12 months prior to 1 March each

Booker Prize Shortlist Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are: Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner, Jonathan Cape) Held (Anne Michaels, Bloomsbury) James (Percival Everett, Mantle) Orbital (Samantha Harvey, Vintage) The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden, Viking) Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U).

The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth a total of $85,000, were announced on 6 September at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) as part of NSW History Week. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, can be found on the SLNSW website.  One of the winners is

Sisters in Crime has announced the winners of the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in July.  Among the winners is – Readers’ choice The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (Alison Goodman, HarperCollins). This book has been reviewed by QRC.  To read

The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. The eight titles shortlisted for the 2024 award, chosen from 235 entries, are: Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Life As We Knew It: The extraordinary story of Australia’s pandemic (Aisha