American novelist Philip Roth most known for his works American Pastoral, The Plot Against America and The Human Stain has just been awarded the International Man Booker prize for 2011. But receiving one of the…

Winners of the 2010 Aurealis Awards sponsored by Harper Voyager were announced on 20 May 2011 at North Sydney's Independant Theatre and were hosted by the author Garth Nix.

The list of winners can be found here…

Words. to live by 16-22 May

It's that time of the year again when…

The nominations for16th Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing have been announced. This Award has been linked with the Melbourne Writers Festival since 2000 and includes Australia's best crime writers both fiction and non-fiction.Follow the link below for this year's list.

http://nedkellyawards.com/index.php/news-feeds

My friend @VaVeros reads romance.

Romance?! ... why?! ...

So she told me.

The Miles Franklin Shortlist for 2011 has been announced today with three candidates vying for Australia's top literary prize. Check out the website for more about the shortlisted authors and novels including the judges comments. …

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The #readit2011 Reader's Challange is an initiative of the NSW Reader's Advisory Group and aims to encourage library users and readers to join the monthly book group and tweet about their reading. Each month the group suggests a different theme to read and tweet…

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It seems there are so many literary prize nomination lists these days that it can be difficult to keep up with them all! Hot on the tail of the Premier’s Literary Prize shortlists is the announcement of the prestigious Miles…

I was suprised to come across this article in The Guardian about John Le Carre's request to be taken out of consideration for this year's Man Booker International Prize. Read the following article to find out why!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9570766

Here is the list of the 13 authors shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize which is awarded every 4 years and which was announced in Sydney…

Each year the Premier's Literary Awards honour some of Australia's best and most influential written works including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The awards not only set a benchmark for Australian writers but encourage people to enjoy and become involved in what is an important aspect of  Australian culture and arts. Our writers have been recognised each year since 1979 when Neville Wran presented the very first Christina Stead…

As today is St Patrick's Day I thought we should celebrate Irish writers. So here is the link to the 2010 Irish Book Awards for some suggestions for great Irish reads.

My favourite Irish writers are Colm Toibin, Sebastian Barry and John Banville

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On Thursday the 24th we will be reading "The God of small things" by Aruhndati Roy. Last month we read "The well at worlds end" by A.J. Mackinnon which most found to be a great read. His earlier book "The unlikely voyage of  Jack de Crow" has been reviewed here and is definitely a recommended read.

When wood is made into paper, lignin breaks down into a polymer similar to vanilla...

http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/977906714/lignin-the-stuff-that-prevents-all-trees-from

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Mosman Library offers eBooks from the EBL collection. Here’s how you can borrow an eBook and read it on…

It is somewhat bemusing to me that the book I decided to read on my long journey to Australia is one recommended by another American who has recently visited your shores.  Oprah Winfrey, a great advocate of reading, has picked two Charles Dickens classics to recommend to her admiring followers.  Although A Tale of Two Cities was one title she charged her book club members to read, I picked up a paperback edition at my library in blissful ignorance of Oprah’s endorsement.  My…

The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit is 10 years old. I refer to it almost every day. Three cheers for Wikipedia.

This is what culture looks like, a process of argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual codification. And for the first time in history, we're building a system that, perhaps only for a brief time but certainly for the moment, is capable of recording and making use of every single one of…

Happy New Year to All on Mosman Readers

 For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"