Shirley Hazzard

Back in town for the Miles Franklin awards next week (gotta get my skates on to finish
the books in time) Gleebooks, is presenting Shirley Hazzard, winner of the 2004 award for The Great Fire, on Thursday 16th June at 7pm in the York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney. Tickets are $12.00 if you are a Sydney Writers' Festival newsletter member. No idea what the price is if you are not. Probably not allowed in I guess. To book: phone the Seymour Centre: 9351 7940 and quote "Sydney Writers' Festival", that should do it.

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Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Macbride's fifth DS McRae novel - hard to see it getting more gruesome than this.

 

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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