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17.01.2022 June is Audiobook Month! Who is your favourite audiobook narrator?

14.01.2022 For #ThrowbackThursday we’re celebrating Library and Information Week by having our own adventure in space and time with ‘Catch a Falling Star’ by Meg McKinlay, shortlisted for children’s literature last year. The last time twelve-year-old Frankie Avery saw her father was the night Skylab space station was launched and now six years later it is falling to earth Judges’ praise: Meg McKinlay’s prose is poetic and lyrical, rich with imagery that captures emotions while weaving... an authentic landscape of Australia in the late 70s. #LIW2021

03.01.2022 In recognition of Reconciliation Week, for #ThrowbackThursday let’s read ‘That Deadman Dance’ by Kim Scott, shortlisted for fiction in 2011. Poetic, warm-hearted and bold, it is a story which shows that first contact did not have to lead to war. It is a story for our times. Judges’ praise: cultural collisions are seen sympathetically from both sides, and are described in a prose that has the capacity to make new and strange the events, people and landscapes that the novel memorably encompasses.

02.01.2022 Did you know that the Office for the Arts recompenses Australian authors, illustrators and publishers for the free use of their books in libraries? We’re currently processing #LendingRights payments to over 17,000 Australian creators and publishers! Find out more: bit.ly/LendingRights