Hawthorn Booktalk 30 August.

A loyal audience braved the building works (and the winter weather) to hear three of our talented library staff talk about their recent reads.

AIMEE

LAWSON, Jenny

Let's pretend this never happened: a mostly true memoir

920.5 LAW

FOENKINOS, David

Delicacy

FIC FOENK

NESS, Patrick

A monster calls

T FIC NESS

ELIZABETH

KEATING, Paul

After words: the post-prime ministerial speeches

320.994 KEA

WEINER, Ed and BROWN, Arnold

Futurethink: how to think clearly in a time of change

658.406 WEI

BALL, Philip

Unnatural: the heretical idea of making people

570.1 BAL

ECO, Umberto

This is not the end of the book

028 ECO

ANDREW

De BOTTON, Alain

The art of travel

910.4 DEB

NEWTON, Robert

When we were two

T FIC NEWTO

GRANT, Neil

The ink bridge

T PB GRA

Ned Kelly Award winners

The winners of the Ned Kelly awards, recognising  Australian crime writing, were announced last night at the Melbourne Writers Festival.

The winners for 2012 are:

Best Crime Fiction

Pig boy.  J.C. Burke

Best True Crime

 Sins of the father: the untold story behind Schapelle Corby's ill-fated drug run.  Eamonn Duff.

Best First Crime Fiction 

  The cartographer. Peter Twohig

SD Harvey Short Story Award

Summer of the seventeenth poll. A. J. Clifford.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Gabrielle Lord

Age Book of the Year winners.

THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR
and

NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

1835: the founding of Melbourne and the conquest of Australia. by James Boyce. 

FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

Foal's bread. by Gillian Mears. 

POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 

The Brokenness sonnets I-III by Mal McKimmie 

Author talk - James Moloney

Celebrating the National Year of Reading, award winning Australian author James Moloney will speak about his love of books and his passion for storytelling.

James has written more than thirty books for children and young adults and has just finished his first book for adults, The Tower Mill published in August 2012. 

He is an important role model for boys and men who love reading.

Monday 27 August at 07.30 pm, Ashburton Library.

This event is free but bookings are essential.