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From the lens Australian book awards.

  • redroses Aug 19, 2010 @ 12:17 am | delete
    Can someone please find me a place in a nursing home. Temple, with "Truth" won the Miles Franklin this year, not last. My security word contains goof in it. Very apt.
  • redroses Aug 18, 2010 @ 10:43 pm | delete
    I should include the Ned Kelly crime fiction award. I didn't know it existed.
  • redroses Aug 18, 2010 @ 10:37 pm | delete
    Some are saying very eloquently that Peter Temple's "Truth" is a pile of rubbish. But I think you are right.
  • susannaduffy Aug 18, 2010 @ 8:12 pm | delete
    The last winner, Peter Temple, was a surprise to me. I know Temple through his Jack Irish novels (winners of 5 Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction) but never saw them as being good enough for the Franklin
  • Science-Fiction-Fan Aug 17, 2010 @ 9:27 pm | delete
    I like books by Trudi Canavan, Sean McMullen and the prolific Isabelle Carmody

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