Because Dad's a good sport, we have hundreds of gift ideas for Father's Day at Dymocks Wynyard. Pay us a visit and check out our Father's Day catalogue today.

This August we're offering 2 for $40 on a huge range of Biographies. Come in and check them out!

Win your Book Club a Special Preview Screening of Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl Who Played with Fire'!

With the next cinematic instalment of the sensation that is the Millennium Trilogy, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire', set to open in cinemas on 23rd September, Murdoch Books have an exciting opportunity for your Book Club! Simply send them an email telling us about your Book Club, the book you are reading at the moment, and why you'd love to win a private preview of 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' for your Book Club.

Entries will be judged on creativity and chance will not play a part.

The details are:

* The Prize is one exclusive theatrette screening for up to 20 people of 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' for the winning Book Club

* It includes a candy bar pack of small soft drink / choc top / popcorn for each person at the screening

* The prize must be taken before 23rd September

* The prize must be used in a metro location in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth


Please send your entries to Jane Duffy from Murdoch Books on janed@murdochbooks.com.au by 31st August. Jane will then select the winner and contact them to make the arrangements for their private preview screening.

World Booklovers Day is Monday 9th August

Shop using your Booklovers card on Monday 9th August and automatically earn double points.

Also, Booklovers who shop with their card will receive automatic entry for a chance to WIN a $1500 book library or to attend a Dymocks Literary Event and meet a world-class author.

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Man Booker Longlist Announced

This year’s Man Booker Longlist was announced last night. The longlist includes:

Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)

Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)

Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)

Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy The Long Song
(Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)

Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)

Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)

Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)

Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky
(Random House - Jonathan Cape)

The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, comments:

"Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain."

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2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Peter Temple’s crime novel Truth has won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented last night at a ceremony in Sydney.


Michael Heyward of Text publishing told the Weekly Book Newsletter he was ‘over the moon’, following Temple’s win. He said Truth had ‘changed the possibility of the crime novel’. ‘Truth is a crime novel but also a novel about crime. It’s a contemporary tragedy,’ he said.


Temple’s acceptance speech, full of self-deprecating humour, went down well with the audience. He used it to ponder the trajectory of the Miles Franklin award, which began with Patrick White and had now led to his win, suggesting--and it was difficult to tell if he was joking--that White would ‘think it unthinkable’ that he had won.The South Africa-born author also added, and this time seriously, that he hoped ‘the Miles Franklin would put an end to the matter of my “Australian-ness”’.