Booktalk at Ashburton Library

Did you miss the booktalk at Ashburton Library today?



Steve Grimwade - the director of the Melbourne Writers Festival was our guest speaker and he told us about some of the amazing writers that are here for the festival - 27 August to 5 September 2010. He highly recommends the keynote address Eight writers: eight ways to be human. There are over 400 authors coming to the festival this year so you are bound to find someone you like. There are also plenty of free events so you be a part of the festival on a budget!



Here are the books that our librarians recommended this booktalk:



Jane


NORWICH, John Julius (editor).
The great cities in history

FOL 909 GRE


HARDING, Lesley & MORGAN, Kendrah

Sunday's kitchen : food and living at Heide.

759.994 REE (H)

WALKER, Martin
Bruno, Chief of Police

FIC WALKE

OLSSON, Linda
Sonata for Miriam
FIC OLSSO



Lee


GARDAM, Jane
The man in the wooden hat

FIC GARDA and LP FIC GARDA

TREVOR, William
Love and summer

FIC TREVO and LP FIC TREVO


OGAWA, Yoko
The housekeeper and the professor

FIC OGAWA

GANDOLFO, Enza
Swimming : a novel

FIC GANDO

Reserve something today on the library catalogue.

Meet the Melbourne Writers Festival Director.

On Wednesday 11 August at 11 am the Ashburton booktalk will welcome a special guest.

Steve Grimwade, director of the 2010 Melbourne Writers Festival, will talk about the exciting authors coming to this years festival.

He will be joined by library staff who will introduce you to new authors and old favourites.

Light refreshments will be served.

No need to book- just turn up at Ashburton Library on Wednesday 11 August at 11 o'clock.

Man Booker 2010 longlist

Two Australian authors, Peter Carey and Christos Tsiolkas, have been included in the 2010 Man Booker Prize longlist.

The full longlist is:

Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America

Emma Donoghue, Room

Helen Dunmore, The Betrayal

Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

Andrea Levy, The Long Song

Tom McCarthy, C

David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Lisa Moore, February

Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

Rose Tremain, Trespass

Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap

Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky

The shortlist will be announced on September 7, and the winner will be announced on October 12.

Foxey's hangout

On Monday night author Cathy Gowdie entertained 35 people at Ashburton Library with the story behind her winery.

Cathy told us that her first idea for a book was a coffee table style book exploring the technique of winemaking. Her publisher, however, was very keen for her to write a personal account of life on the vineyard.

As a journalist, Cathy struggled with putting herself in the story. But 'Foxey's hangout', the end product, is part recipe book, part journal of a year in the vineyard, part local history mystery.

She talked about the degrees of 'localness' in Red Hill and how the book (and cellar door) has been received by her neighbours.

She also tempted readers by detailing part of the story behind the Foxey's hangout label; the 1930's murder of 'Old Jack' in Red Hill.

The Age Book of the Year 2010. Shortlist.

The Age has announed the shortlists of its annual book of the year awards.

The winner of each category wins $10,000 with another $10,000 awarded for the book judged the overall book of the year.

The winners will be announced at the Melbourne Writers' Festival.

Fiction

• Lovesong by Alex Miller
• Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
• Come Inside by G.L. Osborne
• Parrot And Olivier In America by Peter Carey
• The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy

Non-Fiction

• The Lost Mother: A Story Of Art And Love by Anne Summers
• Listening To Country by Ros Moriarty
• Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
• Flying with Paper Wings by Sandy Jeffs
• Wimmera by Homer Rieth
• Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter by Maria Tumarkin

Poetry

• A Whistled Bit Of Bop by Ken Bolton
• Authentic Local by Pam Brown
• Taller When Prone by Les Murray
• Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden