2012 Fiction Shortlist |
Caleb's Crossing
Author: Geraldine Brooks
In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a luminous tale of passion and belief, ... |
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The Street Sweeper
Author: Elliot Perlman
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each ... |
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Foal's Bread
Author: Gillian Mears
"The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then ... |
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Five Bells
Author: Gail Jones
An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller. On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists ... |
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Five Bells
Author: Gail Jones
On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by memories of the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her experienc ... |
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Nonfiction Shortlist |
Worse Things Happen At Sea
Tales of Life, Love, Family and the Everyday Beauty in Between
Author: William McInnes & Sarah Watt
In William's first book A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA will do the same for family life in 2000s; written in a way that ... |
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Notebooks
Author: Betty Churcher
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velzquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Czanne. A trained artist, Betty's sk ... |
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After Words
Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
Author: Paul Keating
A handsome collectable hardback publication for the curious of mind and the legion of Keating fans who love the way the man thinks and speaks. There are thirteen years of speeches in here written and delivered since he l ... |
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A Private Life
Fragments, Memories, Friends
Author: Michael Kirby
Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired public figures. At a time of spin and obfuscation, he speaks out passionately and straightforwardly on the issues that are important to him. Even those who disagree with h ... |
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Debut Fiction Shortlist |
Past the Shallows
Author: Favel Parrett
Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. With their mum dead, they are left to look after themselves. When Miles isn't helping out on the boat they explore the co ... |
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All That I Am
Author: Anna Funder
Two years after Hitler came to power in Germany, the bodies of Dora and her friend Mathilde, prominent anti-Hitler activists in exile, lie poisoned in a flat in Bloomsbury. The room is locked from the inside; the place a ... |
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The Roving Party
Author: Rohan Wilson
1829, TasmaniaJohn Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood ... |
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Watercolours
Author: Adrienne Ferreira
Eleven-year-old Novi just wants to blend in - not easy when you're named after a silkworm and have the most eccentric family in town. A descendent of the first Italian silk growers in northern New South Wales, he is an o ... |
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Childrens Shortlist |
The Jewel Fish of Karnak
Author: Graeme Base
Far, far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the cat Pharaoh decides to give the friends one last chance. She ... |
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The Little Refugee
Author: Anh Do & Suzanne Do
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. It was a dangerous journey, with murderous pirates and terrifyin ... |
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The Coming of the Whirlpool
Author: Andrew McGahan
Young Dow Amber is no sailor. But driven by a strange sea-longing he ventures from the high country of New Island all the way down to a grim fishing village on the shores of the bay known as the Claw. There he finds a cu ... |
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The 13-Storey Treehouse
Author: Andy Griffiths
Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games ... |
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2011 Book of the Year & Nonfiction Winner |
The Happiest Refugee
A Memoir
Author: Anh Do
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent ... |
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Fiction Winner |
Bereft
Author: Chris Womersley
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is t ... |
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Debut Fiction Winner |
Rocks in the Belly
Author: Jon Bauer
Rocks in the Belly is about a precocious eight-year-old boy and the volatile adult he becomes. During childhood his mother fosters boys, despite the jealous turmoil it arouses in her son. Jealousy that reaches unmanageab ... |
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Childrens Winner |
Mirror
Author: Jeannie Baker
Two diverse countries and cultures are linked with warmth and charm in this two-in-one picture book. This innovative picture book comprises two stories designed to be read simultaneously - one from the left, the other fr ... |
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2009 Book of the Year & Fiction Winner |
Jasper Jones
Author: Craig Silvey & Craig Silvey
Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of 13, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town ... |
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Debut Fiction Winner |
The Virtuoso
Author: Sonia Orchard
'Looking back- I realise I'd always been waiting for the arrival of Noel Mewton-Wood. His entrance occurred with such ease that I began to believe he'd always been there- standing in the wings- long before I'd even laid ... |
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Nonfiction Winner |
The Tall Man
Death and Life on Palm Island
Author: Chloe Hooper
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Chri ... |
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Childrens Winner |
Pearl Verses the World
Author: Sally Murphy & Heather Potter
At school, Pearl feels as though she is in a group of one. Her teacher wants her to write poems that rhyme but Pearl's poems don't. At home, however, Pearl feels safe and loved, but her grandmother is slowly fading, and ... |
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2008 Indie Book of the Year |
Breath
Author: Tim Winton
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and about learning to live with its passing. In his f ... |
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