Before It Breaks by Dave Warner won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in a ceremony that took place during the Melbourne Writers Festival on Sunday 28 August. Run by the Australian Crime Writers Association, the award is this country’s oldest and most prestigious prize honouring crime writing. Warner took out the fiction category from a shortlist that included some of Australia’s best-loved crime writers.
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To celebrate Fremantle Press’s 40 Year Anniversary, West Weekend magazine readers have the chance to win a home visit from Sabrina Hahn worth $1,000. She will help identify your garden’s pests and diseases, recommend how to fix them, do a soil pH test and suggest a plant palette for your garden. Then you can invite your friends over for a cup of tea and an exclusive gardening Q&A.
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Madelaine Dickie and Annabel Smith are heading to Ubud Writers Festival while Sarah Drummond and Natasha Lester will be at Brisbane Writers Festival. Here are some of the top sessions on offer.
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Prospector and mining executive Jim Richards will share how he made, lost and made a fortune when he talks about his book Gold Rush at the Geraldton Regional Library on Sunday 25 September.
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Darcy Moon has gone purple! This is the new North American cover for Catherine Carvell’s Darcy Moon and the Deep-Fried Frogs – now renamed Darcy Moon and the Aroona Frogs for American audiences. The book was published by Star Bright Books in June.
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Westbooks and the State Library of Western Australia are joining forces to host a new book club focusing on Western Australian authors and stories. We’re excited to announce that Walpole-based author Sarah Drummond will be in Perth for the first session to discuss her latest book, The Sound.
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What do you do when you are a young man in the 1990s, fresh out of the army, with a geology degree, and an abiding lust for gold? You go looking for a gold rush!
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Moderated by writer, bookseller and blogger Emily Paull this event will feature authors Kate McCaffrey, Brendan Ritchie and Dr Deborah Hunn from Curtin University. The panel will discuss the impact of social media on young people and on their interactions with each other and the world at large.
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When author Ellisha Majid’s children Robert and Sarah were little she decided to write a story just for them. ‘There was a small plastic sausage squashed in their big toy box wanting to get out and run away,’ said Majid. ‘And so it did.’
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Carina McPherson is a Community Engagement Officer at the State Library of Western Australia and the curator of our forthcoming picture book exhibition A Sausage Went for a Walk One Day: Celebrating Western Australian picture books and 40 fabulous years of Fremantle Press.
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