LISA
BENNETT, Alan.
The uncommon reader.
FIC BENNE
LADD, Kylie.
After the fall.
FIC LADD
TAYLOR, Jill Bolte.
My stroke of insight: a brain scientist's personal journey.
616.81092 TAY
PETERS, Elizabeth.
The laughter of dead kings: a Vicky Bliss murder mystery.
FIC PETER
ANNIE
PARKIN, Gaile.
Baking cakes in Kigali.
FIC PARKI
BYRSKI, Liz.
The trip of a lifetime.
FIC BYRSK
SISIA, Gemma.
St. Judes
374.9678 SIS
SINGER, Peter.
The life you can save: acting to end world poverty.
362.5 SIN
FIONA
BOX, C.J.
Blue heaven.
PB BOX
WAITES, Martyn.
Speak no evil.
PB WAI
MONROE, Grace.
The watcher.
PB MON
SCOTTOLINE, Lisa.
Look again.
FIC SCOTT
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tim Winton wins Miles Franklin award
Tim Winton has won his fourth Miles Franklin Award with Breath (Penguin), which was tonight announced as the 2009 winner of the $42,000 prize.
Winton won his first Miles Franklin for Shallows in 1984, winning again in 1992 for Cloudstreet and 2002 for Dirt Music.
For more info check out the Tim Winton/Breath website here.
To read more about Tim Winton and the Miles Franklin award click here.
To check our catalogue and reserve any Tim Winton books click here
Winton won his first Miles Franklin for Shallows in 1984, winning again in 1992 for Cloudstreet and 2002 for Dirt Music.
For more info check out the Tim Winton/Breath website here.
To read more about Tim Winton and the Miles Franklin award click here.
To check our catalogue and reserve any Tim Winton books click here
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Challenging women: towards equality in the Parliament of Victoria
Meet Madeline Grey, author of Challenging women: Towards equality in the Parliament of Victoria
When: Thursday 16 July at 7.30pm
Where: Phyllis Hore Room, Kew Library, Cnr Cotham Road and Civic Drive, Kew
How to book: 9278 4666 or online.
In 1908 women in Victoria were granted the vote; Challenging Women explores the history of what happened when women sought to enter Parliament. From the foundation of the Women’s Electoral Lobby to the launch of EMILY’s List, Challenging Women tells the stories, and brings to life, the parliamentary experiences behind some of the 90 women elected to Victorian Parliament since then.
Melbourne historian, Dr Madeline Grey is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at University of Melbourne.
This session is free, however bookings are essential.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Hawthorn Booktalk June 4, 2009.
Did you miss today's booktalk at Hawthorn?
Well here's what you missed!
Well here's what you missed!
A rose for the Anzac boys
T
Bog child
T
Dear fatty
791.45092 FRE
LOUISE
STONE, Irving
Those who love: a biographical novel of Abigail and John Adams
HOLLICK, Helen
A hollow crown: the story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England
The Lady Elizabeth
JASMIN
HOOPER, Chloe
The tall man : death and life on
364.349915
MAZZEO, Tilar J.
The widow Clicquot: the story of a champagne empire and the woman who ruled it
926.632
COLLINS, Suzanne
The hunger games
T
KLADSTRUP, Donald & KLADSTRUP, Petie
Wine and war: the French, the Nazis, and
940.548144 KLA
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Alice Munro wins Man Booker International prize
Alice Munro has been announced as winner of the third Man Booker International Prize.
The Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadaré in 2005 and then to Chinua Achebe in 2007.
Munro is best known for her short stories and is one of Canada's most celebrated writers.
Her latest collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, will be published in October 2009.
The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2009 is: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov.
The panel made the following comment on the winner:
"Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels. To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before."
To read the rest of the press release and more about the Man Booker International Prize click here.
To check the library catalogue for Alice Munro's books click here.
The Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadaré in 2005 and then to Chinua Achebe in 2007.
Munro is best known for her short stories and is one of Canada's most celebrated writers.
Her latest collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, will be published in October 2009.
The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2009 is: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov.
The panel made the following comment on the winner:
"Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels. To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before."
To read the rest of the press release and more about the Man Booker International Prize click here.
To check the library catalogue for Alice Munro's books click here.
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