Awards awards awards!!!

Are you looking for a good book to read. Many of us choose books that have won awards. Here are some more award winning books:

Winners of the NSW Premier's Literary Award for 2010

The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit...And The Rise Of Hamas by Paul McGeough

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
The Sonnet According to 'M' by Jordie Albiston

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
When the Hipchicks Went to War by Pamela Rushby

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
Krakatoa Lighthouse by Allan Baillie

Community Relations Commission Award
Leave to Remain: A Memoir by Dr Abbas El Zein

UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Document Z by Andrew Coome

Script Writing Award
Bright Star by Jane Campion
Fairweather Man by Aviva Ziegler and Veronica Fury

NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship
Networked Language by Professor Philip Mead

The People's Choice Award
The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy

Book of the Year ($10,000)
Kill Khalid: Mossad's Failed Hit...And The Rise Of Hamas by Paul McGeough

Special Award
The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature

Winners of the 2009 Nebula Award (science fiction and fantasy)

Novel
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Novella
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker

Novelette
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster

Short Story
“Spar,” by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct. 2009)

Ray Bradbury Award
District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell

Andre Norton Award
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

The Solstice Award (for impact on the field)
Tom Doherty, Terri Windling, and Donald Wolheim.

Balwyn Booktalk 17 May 2010.

Lisa

CAUDWELL, Sarah.
The sibyl in her grave
FIC CAUDW

ANDERSON, James.
The affair of the thirty nine cufflinks
FIC ANDER

St. John, Madeleine.
The essence of the thing
FIC STJOH

CORRIGAN, Kelly.
Lift
928.1 COR

ROSENBLATT, Roger.
Making toast: a family memoir
928.1 ROS

Hugh

LYNCH, Scott.
The lies of Locke Lamora
FIC LYNCH

RICHES, Anthony.
Wounds of honour
FIC RICHE

FREEMAN, John.
Shrinking the world: the 4000 year story of how email came to rule our lives
808.6 FRE

MEGALOGENIS, George.
The longest decade
320.994 MEG

Fiona

CROSS, Neil.
Burial
FIC CROSS

HART, John.
The last child
FIC HART

NUNN, Malla.
A beautiful place to die
FIC NUNN

Burke, Alafair.
212
FIC BURKE

Boyd, Heidi.
Craftcycle
745.5 BOY

Fromelles: the missing

On Monday May 3rd Lambis Englezos and Tim Whitford gave a powerful presentation at Ashburton Library about their extraordinary project to find, recover and honour Australia's missing Diggers from the 1916 Battle of Fromelles in France.

With a continuous visual display of historical photographs, land maps and the archaeological work that has been carried out at the site, Lambis and Tim shared the telling of the story of the battle and the amazing piecing together of information which has led to the recovery, identification and formal reburial of the missing soldiers at a new war cemetery.

The sharp instincts, tenacity, remarkable research skills and sense of respect shown by Lambis Englezos and Tim Whitford underpin an engrossing and ultimately successful quest.

It is a deeply moving and important story.

While there were aspects of grim detail and serious contemplation of what happened at Fromelles, both Tim and Lambis have a strong sense of humour and there were lighter moments and laughter throughout the talk.

The highlight came at the conclusion of question time when a woman at the back of the audience spoke. She, too, had been involved in this project. She said her DNA had been taken and that her lost relative had been found and named; with a beaming face, she held up a photograph of a young soldier. Everyone clapped and cheered.