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“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the welfare of their staff, our warehouse provider, Yooralla, remains closed until further notice and we are unable to send books at this time. We will notify you when we are resuming normal deliveries.
Please do not return any books at this time until we advise that the warehouse is able to accept returns.
The Book Groups team is busy choosing books for next year’s list and putting together our new catalogue. We are also working on a brand new Book Groups website that will make it easier for groups to manage selections – we hope to share this with you later in the year.
We will continue to provide updates to Book Groups secretaries, and plenty of book news through this newsletter. We thank you for your understanding and support. We hope you are all staying safe and well during this difficult time.
If you have any concerns please contact us at bookgroups@cae.edu.au.
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The Australian Book Industry Awards were presented in an online ceremony, with winners including Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and Heather Rose’s Bruny for General Fiction Book of the Year.
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have announced their winners, including Tara June Winch’s The Yield receiving the Christine Stead Prize for Fiction, the People’s Choice Award and Book of the Year.
The Miles Franklin Literary Award longlisted titles include Tony Birch’s The White Girl, Melanie Cheng’s Room for a Stranger and Gerald Murnane’s A Season on Earth. The shortlist will be finalised in June, with the winner to be announced in July.
In international news, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced, with the prize for fiction awarded to Colson Whitehead for The Nickel Boys. The Women’s Prize for Fiction has released their shortlist. Titles include Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel. The winner will be announced in September.
Keep an eye out for some of these prize-winning books in next year’s CAE Book Groups catalogue!
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Australian authors are masterful at producing fast-paced mysteries and crime fiction. It’s almost criminal how good these are!
Here are some of our favourite home-grown crime, thriller and mystery reads. |
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Featured Book Group - Maffra 1
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Congratulations to Maffra 1 Book Group, who celebrate 30 years together this year! A number of current members were in the group from the beginning, including founding member Judith L. The group is currently meeting online and look forward to celebrating in person when possible.
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India, monsoon season. Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual guidance, heads to an isolated ashram in the hope of mending a broken heart.
When one of Connor’s grifts goes horribly wrong, it sets in motion a chain of events that brings the two lost souls together – and as they try to navigate a world of gangsters, gurus and secret agendas, they begin to realise that within the ashram’s utopian community, something is deeply, deeply wrong . . .
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Racing from the beaches of Goa to the streets of Delhi to the jungles of Tamil Nadu, Sweetness and Light is an intoxicating, unsettling story of the battle between light and dark, love and lust, morality and corruption. This is an explosive and unforgettable novel that confirms Liam Pieper's place as one of Australia's finest, sharpest writers.
Thanks to Penguin
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Anyone is welcome to enter! Simply email us at competition@cae.edu.au and tell us your favourite crime, mystery or thriller novel. Include your name and postal address. Entries close on Wednesday 27 May. Winners will be notified and answers may be used on social media.
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Drawing for Cartooning
(Online)
5 Sessions
Wednesday, 6pm-8:30pm, 27 May
$345/$328 (conc)
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A Man for All Seasons – Thomas More and His Utopia (Online)
2 Sessions
Thursday, 11:30am-1pm, 11 June
$129/$123 (conc)
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Writing Children’s Picture Books (Online)
3 sessions
Saturday, 10am-1pm, 13 June
$255/$242 (conc)
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