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Black Lives Matter
If you are incensed about Black (and Blak) deaths by police continuing to happen, one constructive thing you can do is to educate yourself and have conversations with your family and friends to spread...
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What We’re Reading: July 2020
Annie — The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s...
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Man Booker Prize Longlist 2020
The Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced! It is a wonderful and diverse list with many new books that we are still waiting to have in stock. There are a few that we can already recommend...
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Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner 2020
We were overjoyed to hear the news that Australia’s most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, has been awarded to Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch for The Yield, published by Penguin Random...
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CBCA 2020 Shortlist
The 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia Shortlist is a treasure trove of some of the best Australian children’s books published over the past year. BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS Entries in this...
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Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner 2020
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that British author Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and is crowned the Prize’s 25th winner with her eighth novel Hamnet. In a live...
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Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2020
Six books have been chosen for the 2020 Man Booker Prize shortlist, including four debut novelists. The shortlist was selected from 162 submitted books. Readers of the six chosen books will explore...
View ArticleThe Shipping News
I can’t quite believe that I’m talking about Christmas already but this year has been special in many ways – let’s just add this to the list of grievances for the Grinch. With Australian and...
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Man Booker International Winner 2020
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The vital work of translators is celebrated, with the prize money...
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CBCA 2020 Winners
The winners and honour books of the 2020 Children’s Book Council of Australia have been announced this week to coincide with Book Week. BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS WINNER This Is How We Change the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Update
Dear Mostly Books community, According to the latest advice from SA Health, we are going to close from 5:30pm this evening for 6 days. We will keep you updated on our ability to trade as we find out...
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Man Booker Winner 2020
The 2020 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has gone to Shuggie Bain, the debut novel of Douglas Stuart, who was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, he...
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PMLA Winners 2020
The winners of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Yield (Tara June Winch, Hamish Hamilton) Nonfiction (joint winners)...
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Favourite staff reads of 2020
— Annie I read lots of good books last year and have gushed about many of them to lots of people – most notably The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. Rather than beat the...
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Enough is Enough
Women across Australia and across the world are fed up with discrimination, sexual harassment and assault, whether it be in the workplace, on the streets or in the home. Countless books have been...
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What We’re Reading: March 2021
Annie —Over summer I read many books that were not due to be released until later in the year (one of the great privileges of being a bookseller). Several of those are out this month and I can’t wait...
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Stella Prize Longlist 2021
Stella began in 2012 with the Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The aim was to counter the gender bias rife in the Australian literary landscape at the time...
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Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2021
We’re very excited by the announcement of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist. This year’s sixteen longlisted books cover both new and well-established writers and a range of genres....
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