Booker Prize Winner announced

He's been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, but this time it's a win for Julian Barnes and his novel, Sense of an Ending.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. That's the sound of Christmas approaching.

We have already received a wide range of Christmas books, wrap and cards, with more arriving weekly. Call in and have a browse!

Inkys long list

This year celebrates the fifth year of the Inky Awards!
For those of you who may not be aware – the Inkys recognise Australian and international authors of teen literature with the victors voted online by the readers of insideadog.com.au.

GOLD INKY LONG LIST
(Australian titles)

• Pigboyby  JC Burke
• Good Oil by Laura Buzo
• Just a Girl by Jane Caro
• The FitzOsbourne’s in Exile by Michelle Cooper
• Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
• This is Shyness by Leanne Hall
• Black Painted Fingernails by Steven Herrick
• Silvermay by James Moloney
• The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling
• All I Ever Wanted by Vikki Wakefield

SILVER INKY LONG LIST
(International titles)

• Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
• Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
• No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
• The Agency: The Body at the Tower by YS Lee
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
• First Light by Rebecca Stead
• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork
• Violence 101 by  Denis Wright

The short list will be announced on September 1st with the voting open until October 18th

'Tis the Season

Booker Shortlist announced today!

Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist

CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry

SWALLOW, Claire Potter

THE TASTE OF RIVER WATER, Cate Kennedy

THIS FLOATING WORLD, Libby Hart

Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

FIVE BELLS, Gail Jones

WHEN COLTS RAN, Roger McDonald

THE ROVING PARTY, Rohan Wilson

BRIGHT AND DISTANT SHORES, Dominic Smith

THE AMATEUR SCIENCE OF LOVE, Craig Sherborne

THAT DEADMAN DANCE, Kim Scott

Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction

A PRIVATE EMPIRE, Stephen Foster

DELUSIONS OF GENDER, Cordelia Fine

MY BLOOD'S COUNTRY, Fiona Capp

INTO THE WOODS, Anna Krien

GOOD LIVING STREET, Tim Bonyhady

AN EYE FOR ETERNITY: THE LIFE OF MANNING CLARK, Mark McKenna

Prize for Writing for Young Adults

THE LIFE OF A TEENAGE BODY-SNATCHER, Doug MacLeod

GRAFFITI MOON, Cath Crowley

THE THREE LOVES OF PERSIMMON, Cassandra Golds

Louis Esson Prize for Drama

SAPHO ... IN 9 FRAGMENTS, Jane Montgomery Griffiths

DO NOT GO GENTLE ..., Patricia Cornelius

INTIMACY, Raimondo Cortese

Surface Tension - a brief review

Surface Tension by Meg McKinlay pub Walker Books Australia

Cassie has always felt left out. She was born prematurely on the day her town was flooded. Everyone else has memories of before, everyone except Cassie. She is drawn to the lake, fascinated by the town that was. It’s her own Atlantis. But unlike Atlantis, the water level is dropping and Lower Grange is about to reveal its secrets.

Surface Tension is a compelling mystery for mid- to upper-primary readers.

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Local children's author, Claire Saxby has just won the Crystal Kite Award for her picture book, 'There Was an Old Sailor'.