15 June 2023 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho as the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. Jade and Emerald is the story of a lonely girl who forms an unlikely bond with a rich hedonistic socialite. The friendship strains her already-fraught relationship with … [Read more…]
Emma Cline (Chatto & Windus, $32.99) Emma Cline’s first novel, The Girls, was the hit debut of 2016, garnering critical and popular acclaim for its assured, atmospheric account of a teenage girl drawn into a Manson Family-inspired cult in late 60s California. Seven years later, the US author’s talent for evoking mood and tone is … [Read more…]
18 May 2023 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing The winners of the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Catherine Chidgey for The Axeman’s Carnival (Te Herenga Waka University Press), a novel of ‘depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses comedy with a building sense of menace, narrated by a … [Read more…]
18 May 2023 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing The Speedy Sloth (Rebecca Young, illus by Heath McKenzie, Scholastic) will be read for the 23rd National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) event at 11am (AEST) on Wednesday, 24 May 2023, with a live-streamed reading from the new Sydney Zoo in Eastern Creek. Each year, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) … [Read more…]