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What We’re Reading: July 2020

Annie — The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away… Read More

What we’ve been reading to start 2020

Annie — Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Over the summer break I read two big fat engrossing reads that couldn’t be otherwise more different (except that they’ve… Read More

What We’re Reading: October 2019

Annie — Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez and A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier I’ve been on several weeks holiday and have divided my time between gardening, socialising and unpacking a house after a… Read More

Awards, News

Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2020

Six books have been chosen for the 2020 Man Booker Prize shortlist, including four debut novelists. The shortlist was selected from 162 submitted books. Readers of the six chosen books… Read More

Awards, News

Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner 2020

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that British author Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and is crowned the Prize’s 25th winner with her eighth novel Hamnet. In a… Read More

Awards, News

Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner 2020

We were overjoyed to hear the news that Australia’s most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, has been awarded to Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch for The Yield, published by… Read More