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Nine Days (novel)
''Nine Days'' is a 2012 novel by the Australian author Toni Jordan. It was the winner of the 2013 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction. Synopsis The novel tells the stories of the Westaways, a working-class Richmond family, across several generations. It follows nine characters, each of whose story is told in a separate chapter, with each dealing with one day in the life of its principal character. Critical reception Reviewing the book for ''Australian Book Review'' Donata Carrazza noted that in spite of the novel's serious themes "this is an easy book to read, with many observations about families and their foibles, comic scenarios involving objects and underwear, sharp repartee between mothers and sons, twin siblings, and neighbourhood louts...Jordan is clear that what binds us to one another and to a meaningful life is simply valuing the life you have been given and the family that is yours and yours alone." Emma Perry, for ''ArtsHub'' was clearly ipressed with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Jordan
Toni Jordan (born 1966 in Sydney, Australia) is a Melbourne-based novelist best known for her debut novel ''Addition'', an international bestseller long listed for the Miles Franklin Award. In 2017 her fourth book, ''Our Tiny Useless Hearts'', was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. Her novel ''Nine Days'' was named the Indie Book of the Year by the Australian Booksellers in 2013. Her most recent novel ''Prettier if she Smiled More'' was called 'sharp-eyed, engaging, endearing and very funny'. In 2022, she released Dinner with Schnables, and in 2023 ''Prettier if she Smiled More''. She currently teaches at the Faber Academy. Bibliography Novels * ''Here Lives a Kind Woman (1999)'' * ''Addition'' (2008) * ''Fall Girl'' (2011) * ''Nine Days Nine Days (stylized as ''ninedays'') is an American rock band from Long Island, New York. It was formed in the hamlet of St. James, Suffolk County, New York in 1994 by John Hampson and Brian Desveaux, and released three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong Weng Ho and others, with a small book publishing division known as Text Publishing. Michael Heyward joined in 1992, and the small publishing house became independent in 1994. When Text Media was taken over by Fairfax Media in 2004, Michael Heyward and his wife Penny Hueston entered into a joint venture with Scottish publisher Canongate. Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, bought Canongate's share in Text in 2011, making it a wholly Australian-owned company. In 2012, Text launched a series of Australian classics, republishing out-of-print works. In January 2025, Text announced that it had been acquired by Penguin Random House. People As of August 2022, Heyward was the publisher. Awards Text awards The Text Prize for Young Adult and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Book Awards Book Of The Year – Fiction
The Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction is a prize category in the annual Indie Book Awards (Australia) presented by Australian Independent Booksellers. The award was established in 2008. Winners and shortlists References {{reflist Australian fiction awards Awards established in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, Victoria
Richmond is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Yarra Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Richmond recorded a population of 28,587 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census, with a median age of 34. Alfred William Howitt, Alfred Howitt recorded the Kulin nation, Kulin/Woiwurrung name for Richmond as Quo-yung with the possible meaning of 'dead trees'. Three of the 82 designated major activity centres identified in the Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy are located in Richmond—the commercial strips of Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victoria Street, Bridge Road, Melbourne, Bridge Road and Swan Street. The suburb has been the subject of gentrification since the early 1990s and now contains a mix of converted warehouse residences, public housing high-rise flats and terrace houses from the victorian architecture, Victorian-era. The residential segment of the subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2012. Events * Clive James is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to literature and the media" in the Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours List. * Five literary figures are named in the Australia Day Honours: Paul Brunton, Stuart Macintyre, Roy Masters, Ros Pesman and Carol Woodrow. * Peter Carey is the recipient of the Bodleian Libraries' 2012 Bodley Medal. The medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford "to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active: literature, culture, science, and communication". * Incoming Premier Campbell Newman cancels the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. * In response, a week later, the new Queensland Literary Awards are announced. The awards use a crowd-funding campaign to raise the prize-money for their initial set of awards. * So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
