Our last Literacy Quiz was asking for the creators of fictional detectives/police officers/sleuths. Here are the answers. Commander Adam Dalgleish P D James Caleb Zelic Emma Viskic Inspector Morse Colin Dexter Miss Marple Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie Inspector John Rebus Ian Rankin Aaron Falk Jane Harper Inspector Karen Pirie Val McDermid Temperance Brennan
Below are the answers to our previous Literary Quiz – who are the authors of the books with a person’s name as the title? David Copperfield Charles Dickens Emma Jane Austen Rebecca Daphne de Maurier Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Tom Jones Henry Fielding Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary Gustav Flaubert
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) big beautiful female theory (Eloise Grills, Affirm) The Jaguar (Sarah Holland-Batt, UQP) Hydra (Adriane Howell, Transit Lounge) Indelible City (Louisa Lim, Text) Bad Art Mother (Edwina Preston, Wakefield). This year’s shortlist comprises one graphic
Australian author Michelle de Kretser has won in the fiction category of the Rathbones Folio Prize, for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). In the award’s first year under a new prize structure, winners were named in three categories, fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Each category winner receives £2000 (A$3500) and the overall prize winner receives £30,000 (A$52,500). Judges
The shortlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$162,360), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Scribner) Em (Kim Thuy, trans by Sheila Fischman, Seven Stories Press) Love Novel (Ivana Sajko, trans by Mima Simic, V&Q Books) Marzahn, Mon Amour (Katja Oskamp, trans by Jo Heinrich, Peirene Press) Paradais (Fernanda Melchor, trans by
QRC Literary Quiz In our recent newsletters, we have included a Literary Quiz. Until now, only subscribers have been able to see it and answer the questions. Now the Quiz will be put on the website for general viewing. Below is one of the first of the Quizzes. This Quiz asks for the authors of
Winner of the Indie Book of the Year – Craig Silvey Our congratulations to Craig Silvey for his winning the Indie Book of the Year – and the Children’s Book of the Year category – with Runt. Craig Silvey says of his win: ‘Thirteen years after Jasper Jones was awarded Book Of The Year, it bears reiterating
Indie Book Award Winners Thirteen years after Jasper Jones was awarded Book Of The Year (in 2009), Australian independent booksellers are thrilled to announce RUNT by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin) as their favourite book from last year, and the winner of The Indie Book Awards 2023 Book of the Year. This is Craig’s second
TUESDAY 30th MAY | INSTORE EVENT 6.00pm for 6.30pm start | 60 mins Join Avid Reader for a conversation with Tom Rob Smith about his book Cold People What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: The Furies by Mandy Beaumont (Hachette) Every Version of You by Grace Chan (Affirm) We Come With This Place by Debra Dank (Echo) big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills (Affirm) The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt (UQP) Hydra by Adriane Howell (Transit
The shortlists for the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Changes to the awards this year include the $30,000 Indigenous Writers’ Prize now being offered annually; the prize money for the Multicultural NSW Award being increased from $20,000 to $30,000; and the people’s choice award now including $5000 prize money. The shortlisted
GET INVOLVED Australian Reading Hour has a short and sweet message: read, share, and enjoy books! #AustralianReadingHour #ARH23 #ReadShareEnjoy We’re asking all Australians across the nation to spend an hour on the day reading and sharing the stories they love with others. It’s a whole day, where the whole country talks about books together. Choose
For those readers who enjoy meeting and listening to authors of the book they read, here are two new events coming up. Dinuka McKenzie – author of Taken Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian writer and book addict. Her debut crime fiction novel, The Torrent, won the HarperCollins Australia 2020 Banjo Prize and was published in February
Established in 2008, the Indie Book Awards celebrate the best Australian writing; and who better to nominate and judge the best-of-the-best than indie booksellers! What makes indie booksellers uniquely placed to judge and recommend the best Aussie books of the past year, is their incredible passion and knowledge, their contribution to the cultural diversity of
An Interview with Jack Heath. QRC: My previous Q&A with you was not long after the publication of Kill Your Brother. I asked you then about Timothy Blake, the protagonist of the Hangman series, and you said his next book may be the final one. Now that Headcase is out, have we really seen the