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The Wife And The Widow
''The Wife and the Widow'' is a 2019 crime novel by the Australian author Christian White. It was the winner of the 2020 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Summary Most of the action of this Australian crime novel occurs on the fictional Victorian island of Belport which lies a short ferry ride off the coast of the Bellarine Peninsula. As the novel's title suggests it follows two main story threads: one concerning the widow, Kate Keddie, and the other the wife, Abby Gilpin. Kate's husband John fails to return to Melbourne from a London medical conference. During the fortnight that he has been away he has kept in contact with his Australian family via Skype. As the days progress Kate comes to realise that her husband has left his job in a palliative care clinic, and, most likely, hasn’t been in London at any sort of conference at all. A missing-person report is lodged with the local police and Kate receives an alarm from a security firm monitoring her holiday home on the isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Affirm Press
Affirm Press is a Melbourne-based book publisher. History In 2010, Affirm Press began publishing several books a year as a part-time operation between Martin Hughes, former editor of ''The Big Issue'', and Graeme Wise, founder of The Body Shop Australia. In 2014 Affirm Press appointed Keiran Rogers as its Sales and Marketing Director, and became a full-time publishing house. Affirm Press publishes a broad range of non-fiction books and a select fiction list. In 2017 they added a kids list. Each year Affirm Press partners with a charity to publish a profit-for-purpose book. These projects have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and include bestsellers ''Letters of Love'' with the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, ''The Silver Sea'' by Alison Lester and Jane Godwin and ''From Little Things Big Things Grow'' by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody. In September 2024, it was announced that Simon & Schuster Australia had entered an agreement to acquire Affirm Press. Awards In 2019 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Kelly Award
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including detailing the actions of people associated with and affected by the crime, and investigating the perpetrator's Motive (law), motives. True crime works often ... genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia. The genre of crime writing has long been popular, but it was not until the early 1990s that a local growth of writing within the genre occurred in Australia. By the middle of the decade support for the field had grown sufficiently that it was decided to establish the Ned Kelly Awards. The awards are affectionately referred to as 'The Neddies' within the community. Categories *Best First Novel *Best True Crime *Best Novel *Best T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books+Publishing
''Books+Publishing'' (formerly ''Bookseller+Publisher'' and ''Australian Bookseller & Publisher'') is a news outlet reporting on the Australian book industry. Published as a website with daily newsletters and a print magazine, the outlet produces industry news about publishing, bookselling, libraries, rights sales, literary awards and literary festivals, as well as author interviews and pre-publication reviews of Australian and New Zealand books. History ''Books+Publishing'' was founded as a magazine in 1921 by Daniel Wrixon Thorpe as the ''Australian Stationery and Fancy Goods Journal'', at a time when there were few Australian retailers solely focused on the sale of books. The magazine has been continuously published ever since, changing its name to ''Ideas'' in the 1937. The name then change to ''Australian Bookseller & Publisher'' in 1971 when the D. W. Thorpe company was taken over by Thorpe's daughter, Joyce Nicholson. In 1971, the company began publishing the ''Weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – '' The White Girl'' * David Brooks – ''The Grass Library'' * Steven Carroll – ''The Year of the Beast'' * Melanie Cheng – ''Room for a Stranger'' * Peggy Frew – ''Islands'' * Peter Goldsworthy – ''Minotaur'' * John Hughes – ''No One'' * Anna Krien – ''Act of Grace'' * Melina Marchetta – ''The Place on Dalhousie'' * Andrew McGahan – ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) * Gerald Murnane – ''A Season on Earth'' * Favel Parrett – '' There Was Still Love'' * Heather Rose – ''Bruny'' * Philip Salom – ''The Returns'' * Carrie Tiffany – ''Exploded View'' * Lucy Treloar – ''Wolfe Island'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''Damascus'' * Tara June Winch – '' The Yield'' * Charlotte Wood – '' The Weekend'' Short stories * Debra Adelaide – ''Zebra: And Other Stories'' * Yumna Kassab – ''The House of Youssef'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Australian Novels
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * ''19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * ''Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle * "Stone in Focus", officially "#19", a composition by Aphex Twin * "Nineteen", a song from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' by Bad4Good * "Nineteen", a song from the 2001 alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
