The Fryer Library congratulates UQ alumnus and Brisbane resident Kate Morton for taking out the 2013 People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year with her third novel The Secret Keeper. A mystery, set in London and shifting between past and present, it has already received high praise and topped bestseller lists across the globe.

On July 25, author and journalist Matthew Condon sat down in conversation with HPRC's Dr Geoff Ginn for a discussion about his latest book, Three crooked kings, which follows the career of former police commissioner Terry Lewis, exposing the story of how Queensland society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption.

Frank Moorhouse won the Fiction category of the Queensland Literary Awards last night for his book Cold light, the final in his Palais de Nations trilogy. In accepting the prize, Mr Moorhouse said: