Ned Kelly Awards

The Ned Kelly Awards (or the Neddies) celebrated their 20th Anniversary over the weekend at the Australian Crime Writers Award dinner in Melbourne. The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and…

We’re past the middle of Winter now, but it’s still really cold outside, and so it’s perfect weather to curl up with a really good book at night.

We thought we would post some of the most borrowed books over Winter thus far, as a bit of extra inspiration for some absorbing books to read. 

"Falling in Love" by Donna Leon

In…

It's hard not to get a bit excited about the Oscar Award ceremony, and we noticed with interest just how many book titles were part of the nominations list this year.

Here are just some of the books:

"Gone Girl" by Gillian…

The 14^th of February is (also) Library Lovers Day, and the staff in the Library have nominated books that they love. They are either some of our ‘all-time favourite’ books, or books that we’ve read recently that we’ve really enjoyed.…

The staff at the Library have nominated these books as some of  their favourite reads for 2014.  

"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of…

We decided to add a section about the most borrowed books in the library, as we thought that it might be interesting to see what books other people are borrowing. The most borrowed books for the past week were:

1. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid : the Ugly Truth" by Jeff Kinney

2. "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson

3. "Private : No. 1 Suspect" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

4. "Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty

5. "In the Dark" by Deborah…