Children's Book Council Book of the Year Shortlist for 2018

The shortlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards has been announced. 

How many have you read?

   

Christopher Robin - the Movie - out in 2018

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature

The NSW Premier's literary Awards have a proud history, both in celebrating achievement by Australian writers and in helping to establish values and standards in Australian Literature.

The 2018 shortlists have been announced. Click on the link below to view the shortlist for the young adult books. All shortlisted books can be found here.

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-awards-nsw-premiers-literary-awards/ethel-turner-prize-young-peoples-literature

New book from Markus Zusak!

Finally! After waiting 13 years after "The Book Theif" Markus Zusak has announced a new book is on the way.

Bridge of Clay will be published in October 2018. Take a look at his announcement!

Stella Prize for Female Australian Authors

The shortlist for the 2018 Stella Prize have been announced. One of the shortlisted authors is Shookoofeh Azar, a refugee from Iran now living in Australia.

Read her amazing story here https://goo.gl/GwLbRe or from our database here 

This book is an extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in  1079. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people. Azar is the consummate storyteller, using the panoply of Persian mythical and mystical entities to bring life, humour, hope, resignation , and profound insights to the characters and their world.

This is a senior fiction book that is on order for the school library.

Miles Franklin Diary

The final diary of iconic Australian author, Miles Franklin was found in an old suitcase in a family home in Dubbo three years ago. The descendent of Miles Franklin has spent the last 3 years transcribing the diary and it is now being presented to the NSW State Library.

Read the account of how the diary was found and it's significance to Australian literature in this article from the Sydney Morning Herald.


Miles Franklin's secret diary discovered by Julie Power

Library Lovers Day

We celebrated Library Lovers' Day all week!

We had a great display of Romance Books available for loan. And everyone who borrowed a book on Thursday received a Library Lovers' Day chocolate or lollypop!

Representatives of each PC wrote a letter celebrating what they love about our library.

Some quotes from our letters:

“It is because of you that I can embrace my love of books in a world consumed with technology, and for this I thank you.”

“At home or in noisy areas isn’t always  the best place to study, do assignments or homework and that’s why one particular facility at St Ursula’s has been very helpful for my classmates and I, and that’s the library.”

“You are, by far, truly the most magical place on earth. You are my escape to a whole new universe, away from chaos, away from stress, away from harm.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one”.

George RR Martin