Title: Lani and the Universe Author: Victoria Carless Genre: Contemporary Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Published: 3rd January 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: Lani Scrub has a plan: study hard and become a world-renowned scientist like her hero, Kit Galway, who wrote The Meaning of the Universe. The plan is ruined when Lani's mum decides… Continue reading Lani and the Universe by Victoria Carless
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Temora and the Wordsnatcher by Kate Gordon
Title: Temora and the Wordsnatcher Author: Kate Gordon Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Wombat Books Published: 1st May 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 276 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: Temora Murphy is eleven years old. She lives in a world where she never really fits. The other girls make fun of her. She's not the "right" sort of girl for… Continue reading Temora and the Wordsnatcher by Kate Gordon
Kaikōura Rendezvous by Stephen Johnson
Title: Kaikōura Rendezvous Author: Stephen Johnson Genre: Crime Publisher: Clan Destine Press Published: 1st October 2023 Format: Paperback Pages: 280 Price: $36.95 Synopsis: Melbourne TV journalists Kim Prescott and Jo Trescowthick are on a well-earned holiday, travelling both islands of New Zealand in a motorhome. But, will they survive a monster storm and a killer… Continue reading Kaikōura Rendezvous by Stephen Johnson
Wayfarer Cards by Sophie Masson (words) and Lorena Carrington (illustrations)
Title: Wayfarer Cards Author: Sophie Masson (words) and Lorena Carrington (illustrations) Genre: Writing prompts Publisher: Pardalote Press Published: 2022 Format: Cards Pages: 16 full colour cards, 70mm by 120mm each Price: $20 Synopsis: Wayfarer, created by illustrator Lorena Carrington and writer Sophie Masson, is a unique set of sixteen beautiful myriorama cards which in words… Continue reading Wayfarer Cards by Sophie Masson (words) and Lorena Carrington (illustrations)
Some of the authors appearing at the Sydney Writer’s Festival…
It's that time of year again, when the programs and author schedules for the annual Sydney Writer's Festival are announced. Held between the first and the sixth of May, mostly at Carriageworks but with some events at a variety of other places around Sydney, there will be many events to choose from, and many authors… Continue reading Some of the authors appearing at the Sydney Writer’s Festival…
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlist for 2018
One of the Australia's literary awards has just announced the shortlist for 2018 - The NSW Premier's Literary Awards, with the winner to be announced in April. Each category and the shortlisted novels for this prize are listed below for 2018, and information about each prize category can be found here in a previous post:… Continue reading NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlist for 2018
Adelaide Writer’s Week 2018
The third of March, 2018 marks the beginning of the six-day festival of authors and writing in Adelaide, South Australia. Eighty-Four Australian and international authors will attend the event for a variety of talks, across a diverse range of authors, books and genres to discuss literature and how the world impacts the stories we tell.… Continue reading Adelaide Writer’s Week 2018
Once Upon A Time – Fairy Tales and The Pre-Raphaelites with Kate Forsyth
It is very rare that I get to meet my favourite authors, or in fact, any authors, even though we interact over social media, so when I heard that Kate Forsyth would be at an author event at Kincumber Library, I booked to go before the tickets were all gone. It was a lengthy month… Continue reading Once Upon A Time – Fairy Tales and The Pre-Raphaelites with Kate Forsyth
2017 Sydney Writer’s Festival
The Sydney Writer’s Festival is held annually across various precincts of Sydney, with many ticketed and free events across the five days of the festival. This year, the dates are the 22nd to the 28th of May. Each year, the Sydney Writer’s Festival presents over 300 events, with audiences of over 100,000 people over the… Continue reading 2017 Sydney Writer’s Festival
The Jane Austen Writer’s Club by Rebecca Smith
Title: The Jane Austen Writer’s Club Author: Rebecca Smith Genre: Non-fiction/writing advice Publisher: Bloomsbury Published: 1st October, 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 352 Price: $36.00 Synopsis: Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane… Continue reading The Jane Austen Writer’s Club by Rebecca Smith
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