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Australia’s most borrowed library books 
Have you ever wondered what the most popular books are in Australian Libraries? The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) & Civica Libraries Index publish an annual list of the most borrowed books from the previous 12 months.
We certainly like our crime and thriller novels. They make up the top 10 spots in the 2017 list, and account for 15 of the top 20 books borrowed. At number one is Make Me by Lee Child, followed by The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and Personal, also by Lee Child.
Topping the list of Australian titles this year was Rain Music by Di Morrissey, followed by Spirits of the Ghan by Judy Nunn and Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty.
Non-fiction honours went to Reckoning by Magda Szubanski, then The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo and The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson.
Find the full list on the ALIA website.
Carolyn’s Books of the Month – November 2016
Best Read : A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
Crime : Hide Away by Iris Johansen
Australian Author : Evergreen Falls by Kimberley Freeman
General Fiction : The Other Child by Lucy Atkins
Thriller : If She Did It by Jessica Treadway and Saturday Requiem by Nikki French
Saga/Romance : The Shoemakers Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Books to Die For
Blue Mountains Library is taking a forensic look at the world of crime writing with a whole morning dedicated to exploring the many intriguing facets of this genre with some of Australia’s best-selling and award-winning authors.
Join us as we go deep inside the eclectic world of crime as we hear from Dr Rachel Franks on the history of crime writing and the shady, fictional world of the Private Investigator. Meet well-known Australian crime and thriller novelists including Jaye Ford, the award-winning author of Beyond Fear, the highest selling debut crime novel in Australian in 2011, whose four further thrillers have been published in nine languages, and Candice Fox, multiple Ned Kelly award-winning author, who has just-released a much-anticipated collaboration, Never Never, with the best-selling crime novelist, James Patterson. Action-thriller expert, Chris Allen, will introduce us to the high-speed adventures of his Intrepid series. And, finally, take a tour of work from Peter Doyle – also a Ned Kelly award winning crime novelist – based on research into Sydney’s forensic Photography Archive at the Justice and Police Museum by Associate Professor Peter Doyle.
Tickets are just $15, include morning tea and are available from any Library branch or online, CLICK HERE.
Put the date in your diary – SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER AT SPRINGWOOD LIBRARY, 10am to 1pm
Carolyn’s Books of the Month – April 2016
Best Read : Tears of the Cheetah by T.M.Clark
Crime : The Murderer’s Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman
Australian Author : The Lake House by Kate Morton
General Fiction : Jakob’s Colours by Lindsay Hawdon
Thrillers : Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid and Think of a Number by John Verdon
Saga/Romance : See Me by Nicholas Sparks
The Next Great Hotbed of Crime Writing – the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2014 Australian Crime Writers Association Ned Kelly Awards was announced at the Bendigo Writers Festival last weekend. The ACWA award prizes for crime fiction and true crime writing with four categories : Best Fiction, Best First Fiction, True Crime and the Sandra Harvey Short Story Award.
The winners of the 2014 awards will be announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival on Saturday September 6.
Chair of the ACWA, Michael Robotham, said of the 2014 shortlist, “I can’t remember a time when the competition was so fierce and the quality so high. Nordic crime has been huge around the world since the Stieg Larsson trilogy but I think Australia can become the next great hotbed of crime writing.”
Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher
Fatal Impact by Kathryn Fox (7th in the Dr Anya Crichton series)
In the Morning I’ll be Gone by Adrian McKinty (3rd in the Sean Duffy series)
Beams Falling by PM Newton (2nd in the Detective Nhu ‘Ned’ Kelly series)
One Boy Missing by Stephen Orr
The Dying Beach by Angela Savage
2014 BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL
Dead Cat Bounce by Peter Cotton
Hades by Candice Fox
Blood Witness by Alex Hammond
Every Breath by Ellie Marney
2014 BEST TRUE CRIME
Disgraced? The Cop at the Centre of Melbourne’s Gangland Wars by Paul Dale
Forever Nine by John Kidman & Denise Hofman
No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality by Eleanor Learmonth & Jenny Tabakoff
JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren
Outlaw Bikers in Australia by Duncan McNab
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
2014 SANDRA HARVEY SHORT STORY AWARD
Housewarming by Louise Bassett
The Scars of Noir by Darcy-Lee Tindale
Voices of SOI 22 by Roger Vickery
Splinter and Web Design both by Emma Vickic
The full list of shortlisted nominees is now published at: http://www.austcrimewriters.com/content/2014-ned-kelly-awards
