When the leaves begin to change colour, we know it is awards season. This month the Miles Franklin Award Longlist is announced, the INDIE Awards winners are announced (view the shortlist) and the STELLA Prize Shortlist is announced. The $50,000 STELLA Prize is in its inaugural year and you can click the banner above to view the longlisted titles or to read more about the prize.

Bold & Brilliant ~ a range of Australian Classics

ABBEY'S CHOICE
Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

ABBEY'S CHOICE
Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
Jane Dunn

ABBEY'S CHOICE
The Heretics:
Adventures with the Enemies of Science
Will Storr

ABBEY'S CHOICE
Good News, Bad News
Maggie Groff

ABBEY'S CHOICE
The Dance of the Seagull
Andrea Camilleri

ABBEY'S CHOICE
The Honey Guide
Richard Crompton

Read the first chapter extract courtesy of
The Australian.

Hear Clive Hamilton discuss the controversial concepts of geoengineering in this interview with Fran Kelly (ABC Radio National).

The Fine Colour
of Rust
P. A. O'Reilly

Hope: A Tragedy
Shalom Auslander

This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
Jon McGregor

Canada
Richard Ford

Gossip
Beth Gutcheon

The Bellwether Revivals
Benjamin Wood

Instructions
for a
Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell

The Town That Drowned
Riel Nason

The Cattle King
Ion L. Idriess

A survey of the world's Top 10 landowners includes the Queen, the Pope... and Australia's 'Cattle King'. Read article

Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women... the Romans That History Forgot
Robert Knapp

The Infinity Puzzle: The Personalities, Politics, and Extraordinary Science Behind the Higgs Boson
Frank Close

Contagious
Jonah Berger

Hotel Hyperion
Lisa Gorton

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
Peter Hook

A Golden Age: Surfing's Revolutionary
1960s and '70s
John Witzig

The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
Ella Maillart

Divided Nations: Why Global Governance is Failing, and What We Can Do About it
Ian Goldin

The Great Convergence:
Asia, the West,
and the Logic
of One World
Kishore Mahbubani

Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape Our Lives
Jesse J. Prinz

The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
A. C. Grayling

Is it possible to untangle religion and politics? Or will one’s influence always be felt by the other? Find out at this fiery panel debate featuring philosopher and bestselling author AC Grayling, Sean Faircloth, author and Director of Strategy & Policy at the Richard Dawkins Foundation, Australian priest and human rights lawyer FR Frank Brennan SJ and Hon. Pru Goward MP, Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Women.

IDEAS AT THE HOUSE ~ CHURCH & STATE ~ BOOKINGS & INFO

SUNDAY 24 MARCH 4PM,  CONCERT HALL, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

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Books on big screens & little screens

Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford

Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue
in History
Antonio Mendez
& Matt Baglio