Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock is shortlisted for the 2021 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
We are thrilled that The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld is on the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction shortlist this year. The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards provide an opportunity to highlight the importance of literacy and to encourage everyone to enjoy and learn from the work of our writers. These annual awards honour distinguished achievement […]
Churchill & Son by Josh Ireland is The Times Book of the Week
We are delighted to see that Josh Ireland’s book Churchill & Son was chosen as the Book of the Week in The Times on Saturday. You can read the full review here.
Rainbow Milk nominated for Debut Book of the Year at The British Book Awards
Congratulations to Paul Mendez on his British Book Award 2021 nomination! His novel Rainbow Milk has been shortlisted in the Debut Book of the Year category. Read more about it here.
Lambda Literary Awards Finalists – Juliana Delgado Lopera and Mary Jean Chan
We’re thrilled to see Juliana Delgado Lopera’s debut novel Fiebre Tropical and Mary Jean Chan’s poetry collection Flèche on the list of finalists for the 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Congratulations to both authors! Read more about the award here.
Berlin, spies and solitary writers – A Lonely Man reviewed in the Sunday Times
We were thrilled to see Johanna Thomas- Corr rave review of Chris Power’s forthcoming debut novel in the Sunday Times this weekend, where she praised it as: “an elegant, atmospheric story of shadows and half-truths.” She continues: “Power shares all of the letters of his surname with his protagonist as well as many biographical details: […]
Rachel Long and Paul Mendez are longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021
We are delighted that Rachel Long and Paul Mendez have been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021, for My Darling From the Lions and Rainbow Milk respectively. The shortlist will be announced on 13th April.
How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones is longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones has been longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize. Chair of judges and novelist Bernardine Evaristo, says: ‘We read so many brilliant novels for this year’s prize and had an energetic judging session where we discussed our passions, opinions and preferences. Sadly, we had to let some very […]
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden – Guardian Book of the Day
A director is enthralled by his two lead actors in a beguiling exploration of artistic obsession The credits and deficits of an artistic life are the focus of Diary of a Film. The protagonist, a director called Maestro by all those around him, arrives at a film festival in an unnamed Italian city where his latest […]
Paul Mendez longlisted for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
We are delighted that Paul Mendez has been longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award for his coming-of-age debut Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books). You can read more about it here.
Rock of ages: how chalk made England – Guardian Long Read by Helen Gordon
Swathes of England’s landscape were shaped by the immense block of chalk that has lain beneath it for 100 million years. For a long time, even geologists paid it little heed – but now its secrets and symbolism are being revealed. On the British Geological Survey’s map, chalk is represented by a swathe of pale, limey […]