18.May.2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
Sydney Writers’ Festival is coming again (15-23 May)! I went last year and I am going this weekend. Yay. One thing about the festival is New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards that are always announced at the beginning of the festival. Here are the shortlists this year for The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, which [...]
13.Jun.2009 The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Another lovely book from Shaun Tan. The Arrival has no words, it’s all pictures (must be the easiest book to translate). And I almost have no words to describe it, because it’s so overwhelmingly good. The drawings, the imagination, it’s so out of this world that you feel you are transported to this magical majestic [...]