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11 April, 2008 Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones (Vintage) is one of eight titles on the shortlist for the €100,000 (A$160,000) IMPAC award, the world's richest single prize for a work of fiction 
7 April, 2008 You can imagine the piles and piles of books (with small black type) about depression and ways in which sufferers and their loved ones can deal with it.
April titles from Melbourne University Press
3 April, 2008 MUP's new titles for April include an enlightening collection of Australia's best political writing, a new paperback edition of an award-winning historical adventure, and two stunning books commemorating Australia's military history in time for Anzac Day. 
2 April, 2008 The rhyming maestro Dr Seuss is back in the charts with Horton Hears a Who, number one in the Fastest Mover chart this week.
Contemporary fiction festival 'a wonderful success'
2 April, 2008 The contemporary fiction festival held last weekend by the NSW Writers' Centre was ‘a wonderful success,' according to the Centre's acting director Arabella Lee.
Biography prize shortlist
2 April, 2008 Six ‘wonderfully diverse' titles have been shortlisted for the $20,000 National Biography Award 2008, the State Library of NSW announced today.
ABC fiction prize winner
2 April, 2008 The winner of this year's ABC Fiction Award is Adelaide-based high-school teacher Kain Massin for his novel God for the Killing. 
2 April, 2008 Pacific Rim Voices has announced the winners of the 12th annual Kiriyama Prize. 
2 April, 2008 Feather Man, poet Rhyll McMaster's debut novel (Brandl & Schlesinger), has won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award. 
2 April, 2008 The 9th national conference of the Children's Book Council of Australia, to be held in Melbourne from 2 to 4 of May, will be opened by Astrid Lindgren award-winner Sonya Hartnett. 
1 April, 2008 The shortlist for this year's Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards was announced today. 
1 April, 2008 It's always nice to see a local favourite finish up first on the Most Mentioned chart. Helen Garner's new novel The Spare Room seemed to be peppered throughout the media this week. 
26 March, 2008 Coming in at number one this week in the Highest New Entries chart is children’s book Columbia Sneezes! 
26 March, 2008 The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Lothian) has been nominated for yet another award, this time in the United States. 
25 March, 2008 US-related nonfiction had a quite a presence in the media this week. Most of us know Martin Amis for his many works of fiction, but it was his latest book of nonfiction that received a few mentions in national media over the weekend.. 
19 March, 2008 Number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week is Mr Paparazzi. This book details the world of paparazzi photographer Darryn Lyons, a 'self-made millionaire' 
19 March, 2008 An award-winning young adult book has come under fire for its ‘sexual imagery'. A Lilydale High parent says that, with over 100 swear words, Phillip Gwynne's Deadly Unna? (Penguin) is an inappropriate choice for Victoria's classrooms.
ABC fiction award shortlist
19 March, 2008 Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2008 ABC Fiction Award.
Two more fake 'memoirists' exposed
19 March, 2008 The veracity of two more 'misery memoirs' has been called into question. Margaret Jones's Love and Consequences (Riverhead US) and Misha Defonseca's Surviving with Wolves (Piatkus) joined the ranks of Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and A Million Little Pieces in the last fortnight 
19 March, 2008 Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction 
19 March, 2008 Steven Carroll has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in the South East Asia and South Pacific region for The Time We Have Taken (Fourth Estate); and The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee (UQP) was awarded Best First Book for the region.
Video: Peter Carey at the Adelaide Writers' Week - Part 2
19 March, 2008 PART 2 - Peter Carey discusses his new book His Illegal Self with Matthew Condon at Adelaide Writers' Week.
Video: Peter Carey at the Adelaide Writers' Week - Part 1
19 March, 2008 PART 1 - Peter Carey discusses his new book His Illegal Self with Matthew Condon at Adelaide Writers' Week.
Video - David Malouf at the Adelaide Writers' Week - Part 2
19 March, 2008 PART 2 - David Malouf presents selected readings of his work and discusses them with J.M. Coetzee.
Video - David Malouf at the Adelaide Writers' Week - Part 1
19 March, 2008 PART 1 - David Malouf presents selected readings of his work and discusses them with J.M. Coetzee. |
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