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Congratulations to Catherine de Saint Phalle on Poum and Alexandre being longlisted for the Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year for the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards!

Congratulations to Catherine de Saint Phalle on ‘Poum and Alexandre’  being shortlisted for the Stella Prize.  

Congratulations to  Sonya Voumard and Catherine de Saint Phalle of being longlisted for the prestigious  Stella Prize. All the details including judges’ comments now at  http://thestellaprize.com.au  

Transit Lounge is pleased to announce that it has sold North American and UK rights to A. S. Patrić’s 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Black Rock White City to Melville House, New York. The deal was brokered by Daniel Lazar at Writers House literary agency, and publication in both markets is scheduled for the […]

Reading group notes are now available for A. S. Patric’s ‘Black Rock White City’ and Catherine de Saint Phalle’s ‘Poum and Alexandre’. They make an excellent starting point for your next book group discussion. You can download them here. black-rock-white-city-reading-group-notes poum-and-alexandre-reading-group-notes

One by Patrick Holland has been shortlisted for The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. http://www.qldliteraryawards.org.au/about/shortlists

Crow’s Breath by John Kinsella has been shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award. The award is presented to the best Australian book published in 2015. The judges’ comments follow. Ravages, both human and environmental, are the subject of John Kinsella’s Crow’s Breath, a masterful and mature collection of short stories. Kinsella’s stories are evocative, poetic, […]

Congratulations from all at Transit Lounge to Alec Patric on winning the Miles Franklin Award 2016. It’s a great victory for a tremendous novel and a hugely talented writer. New winner edition available and in stores throughout the country in the next week. Transit Lounge would like to thank the convenors and judges of the […]

Crow’s Breath by John Kinsella and Claustrophobia by Tracy Ryan shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Awards Fiction Category Congratulations  to a super-talented  literary couple. http://pba.slwa.wa.gov.au/

Black Rock White City by A. S. Patric has been shortlisted fro the prestigious  Miles Franklin Award 2016. Established  through the will of  My Brilliant Career author, Miles Franklin, the prize is awarded each year  to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in many of its phases. Previous winners […]