Creative Australia has revealed the shortlist for the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation. The awards celebrate the exceptional talents of emerging and established Australian writers, illustrators, poets, and historians.
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It’s not a shingle openly displayed on diplomatic outposts, but the traitor’s gates are always open. Then it’s a process of determining the enfumage, which in espionage parlance means a fake person or …
A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY is the beautifully ironic title of Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut novel.
It’s the summer of 85/86 and a family of four, mum, dad and their two daughters trek from Wellington to the Kapiti coast of New Zealand for …
Adam Bowman drove through Cessnock on the lookout for a certain pie shop and thinking about Truman Capote. Capote’s idea for In Cold Blood had come from a newspaper story. Bowman’s own idea percolating came from a newspaper report about …
A fast paced, multi layered page turner, VIOLET KELLY AND THE JADE OWL by Fiona Britton is divided into thirty one chapters. It is of medium size and thickness.
It is set in Sydney during the 1930’s, just before the …
This is a fabulous book, intimately, terrifically written. Heather Mitchell comes across as an extremely kind, loving person, dedicated to her art. She is also an ailurophile ( cat lover). It is a meditation on the ups and downs of …
In the shadow of the headquarters of the Macquarie Bank at ‘The Title’, the launch took place of THE MILLIONAIRES’ FACTORY. At about the same time it was announced that the Macquarie Bank had officially become the fifth largest …
Set right now in Sydney with identifiable places this is a gritty, gripping police procedural, impressively written that deals with the disturbing subjects of child abuse and domestic violence as well as misogyny at work. It is adroitly and tensely …
A gripping book, magnificently written, this is the fifth book in the detective Dave Burrows series .It is divided into short gulps of thirty chapters and there is a Prologue and Epilogue.
Readers learn a lot about life in an …
From the author of Josephine’s Garden, this is a rather complicated but stirring tale set in the early 1800’s when Napoleon ruled .This is Stephanie Parkyn’s third historical novel .It is of medium size and thickness and divided into thirty …