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8/16/2017

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Teen readers can vote for their favourite book until 17 September at Inside a Dog . The winners will be announced on 2 October. Ned Kelly Awards 2017 shortlists announced The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best fiction Crimson Lake (Candice Fox, Bantam) The Golden Child (Wendy James, HarperCollins) An Isolated Incident (Emily Maguire, Picador) Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly (Adrian McKinty, Serpent’s Tail) The Rules of Backyard Cricket (Jock Serong, Text) Out of the Ice (Ann Turner, S&S) Best true crime

Code of Silence (Colin Dillon, A&U) Roger Rogerson (Duncan McNab, Hachette) Getting Away with Murder (Duncan McNab, Ebury) The Drowned Man (Brendan James Murray, Echo) Denny Day (Terry Smyth, Ebury) Murder at Myall Creek (Mark Tedeschi, S&S) Burn Patterns (Ron Elliott, Fremantle Press) The Dry (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Only Daughter (Anna Snoekstra, Mira) The Love of a Bad Man (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe) Goodwood (Holly Throsby, A&U) Something for Nothing (Andy Muir, Affirm).

Best first fiction

The winners will be announced on 1 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. For more information on the awards, click here . ‘The 91-Storey Treehouse’ launched at sold-out Melbourne event; sales record broken at Dymocks The latest instalment in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series, The 91-Storey Treehouse (Pan), was launched by Readings at a sold-out event at the Melbourne Town Hall on 8 August. Readings marketing manager Nina Kenwood told Books+Publishing the launch went ‘brilliantly’, and was ‘delightfully chaotic (as anything involving thousands of excited children tends to be), and full of joy and fun’.

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