The shortlists for the 2016 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Fiction Thirst (Lizzie Wilcock, Scholastic) The River and... Read more
Sydney Writers’ Festival guest and US author and feminist Gloria Steinem has shot up the bestseller chart this week. Her memoir My Life on the Road (Nero) was the week’s... Read more
Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the 2016 Orwell Prize for his book The Invention of Russia (Atlantic Books), an account of Russia’s post-Soviet transformation from 1985 to the... Read more
