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Winners of the 17th Annual Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced at the Art Gallery of NSW last night with The Gold ABIA for Book of the Year and ABIA Fiction Book of the Year won by Jane Harper’s The Dry (Pan Macmillan Australia), a crime novel set in a drought-stricken rural Australia. READ
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Sally Abbott’s debut novel Closing Down (Hachette Australia) imagines Australia in the near future. It’s an Australia in which climate change and its geo-political repercussions have wrought social breakdown in small communities across the country. Abbott will be at the Sydney Writers; Festival this week talking about the novel and she is included on the panel “It’s
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By Shane Murphy
On May 29 it will be 20 years since Jeff Buckley, aged 30, swam out into the dark, swirling waters of the Mississippi River in Memphis and never made it back to shore. Jeff Apter was inspired by this upcoming anniversary and his involvement in the A State of Grace series of concerts in 2015 that
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“Men have to do something really bad to be crippled by guilt. All women have to do is eat a piece of cake, raise their voice or allow their kids to play with an iPad,” says the publisher’s blurb for Kaesy Edwards’ non-fiction book Guilt Trip: My Quest to Leave the Baggage Behind. The book, published by
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Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton adds to a growing list of publications trying desperately to understand the 2016 US presidential election. Bordo intervenes in a debate that has been raging since the day the polls closed, and shows no signs of dying down. ‘How,’ Bordo asks, ‘could such an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced, admired,
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The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has announced its 2017 best books of the year shortlist with the winner to be announced on May 25 at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA). The short list is: Biography Book of the Year ● Songs of a War Boy, Deng Adut
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By Raymond Gill
Sally Abbott has spent much of a early life as a journalist working in country towns across several states, so if the adage goes ‘write what you know’, then Abbott has – her novel, Closing Down, released this week, is set in an Australian rural town. But don’t expect this 57 year-old first time novelist who makes her living from
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Down the Hume is Peter Polites’ first novel. The publicity material succinctly describes it as “part noir, part melodrama, part queer and all Western Sydney”. Its publishers Hachette Australia also describe it as a book for those who like the writing of Christos Tsiolkas and Luke Davies. Polites lives in Western Sydney. In 2014 he
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Mayte Garcia has the rare distinction of knowing Prince as both his wife, the mother of his two children and also as an employee. With her first book The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince, she takes us inside her relationship and history with the musician, from her first meeting at 16 years of age,
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In China Matters: Getting It Right for Australia (LaTrobe University Press), its authors Bates Gill and Linda Jakobson look at the rise of China and its impact on Australia. The two expert China-watchers take a concise look at modern China, its tensions and contradictions, and pose questions about how it might use its power and influence in a time of
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