by Akina Hansen | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Writing NSW is facing difficult times since the state government has rejected their application for multi-year funding worth $175,000. Jane McCredie, the CEO of Writing NSW, has spoken about her shock at the decision, especially since the state’s literature board had...
by Akina Hansen | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The finalists for New Zealand’s 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced today. The awards celebrate the best in crime fiction from New Zealand across two categories: best novel, and best first novel. ‘Ten years after we launched the Ngaio Marsh Awards to help...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
A gr favourite book, Adrian McKinty’s The Chain, has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year prize. The book was voted the winner by a public vote and judges from a shortlist featuring a who’s who of crime writing. McKinty said of his win:...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Bestselling author Josephine Cox has died aged 82. Cox’s career included the publication of more than 60 books, which sold over more than 20 million copies, according to her publisher, HarperCollins. Cox wrote her first novel quite later in life. Born in Blackburn to...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Sisters in Crime organisation has announced the shortlists for their 2020 Davitt Awards. The Davitt Awards celebrate the best crime books by Australian women. They were first presented at the SheKilda Women’s Crime Convention in 2001. They were presented by...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Award for her novel, The Yield. Winch won out over five other shortlisted books to take out the final prize. At the time of the shortlist announcement, The Yield had already won Book of the Year,...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The winners of the International Thriller Writers’ Awards have been announced for 2020 at the virtual Thrillerfest event, which took place on July 11. Popular Australian writers, Adrian McKinty and Dervla McTiernan, were among the winners, with McKinty winning Best...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Philip Pullman will release a previously unseen novella in October that tells more of the story of his famous protagonist, Lyra Silvertongue. In the novella, named Serpentine, Lyra returns to Trollesund, a remote fictional town, where she met the armoured bear Iorek...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
In further book award news this week, the shortlist for the State Library of NSW 2020 National Biography Award has been announced. The award, which is supported by the Nelson Meers Foundation, celebrates excellence in biography, autobiography and memoir writing. It is...
by Akina Hansen | Jul 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Australian Booksellers Association have announced the winners of the 2020 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards, which span three separate categories for the first time. There Was Still Loveby Favel Parrett, and The Yield by Tara June Winch were announced...
