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Literary Prize Winners

 

Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder And The Australian Imperial Force
Peter Stanley

$34.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Pier 9

Australia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. Bad Characters is a book that will do something no other book has tried to do. It will tell the story of the Aus... Buy or find out more 


 

The Sense Of An Ending
Julian Barnes

$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape

Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more 



That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott

$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In ... Buy or find out more 


A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

$19.99 – Paperback book / Constable & Co Ltd

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, trouble... Buy or find out more 



The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht

$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette

Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.

'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).

As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more 


The Memory Of Love
Aminatta Forna

$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury

Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

A major new novel by acclaimed writer Aminatta Forna: a story about friendship, about understanding, absolution and the indelible effects of the past ... and about the ver... Buy or find out more 




Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2011

Jamrach's Menagerie →

Carol Birch

$23.95

Pigeon English →

Stephen Kelman

$29.99

 

The Sense Of An Ending →

Julian Barnes

$29.95$24.95

Half Blood Blues →

Esi Edugyan

$27.99

The Sisters Brothers →

Patrick De Witt

$29.99

Snowdrops →

A.D. Miller

$19.99


Tomas Tranströmer - Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature

New Collected Poems
Tomas Transtromer

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloodaxe

Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tomas Transtromer is Sweden's most important poet. This book includes all the poems he has written during the past fifty years, including those from the Bloodaxe Collected Po... Buy or find out more 


The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems Of Tomas Transtromer
Tomas Tranströmer

$22.95 – Paperback book / Graywolf Press

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation; many expected that he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Transtromer's, as wel... Buy or find out more 



The Great Enigma: New And Collected Poems
Tomas Tranströmer

$26.95 – Paperback book / New Directions

Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The collected poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, available in this comprehensive edition.

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp th... Buy or find out more 


Tomas Tranströmer: Selected Poems (Reissue)
Tomas Tranströmer

$22.99 – Paperback book / Ecco Press

Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bonner Award for Poetry, Germany's Petrarch Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Tomas Transtromer captures the mood of ... Buy or find out more 




Miles Franklin Shortlist 2011

When Colts Ran →

Roger McDonald

$19.95

That Deadman Dance →

Kim Scott

$22.99

Review

Bereft →

Chris Womersley

$24.95

Review


Miles Franklin Longlist 2011

That Deadman Dance →

Kim Scott

$22.99

Review

Time's Long Ruin →

Stephen Orr

$24.95

 

The Mary Smokes Boys →

Patrick Holland

$29.95$24.95

Review

Rocks In The Belly →

Jon Bauer

$32.95

Review

The Legacy →

Kirsten Tranter

$17.99

Review

The Good Daughter →

Honey Brown

$32.95


Miles Franklin Prize Winners

Truth →

Peter Temple

$32.95

Breath →

Tim Winton

$24.95

Review

The Time We Have Taken →

Steven Carroll

$19.99

Review

The Ballad of Desmond Kale →

Roger McDonald

$23.95

The Great Fire →

Shirley Hazzard

$22.99

Journey To The Stone Country →

Alex Miller

$23.95


Man Booker Prize Winners

The Finkler Question →

Howard Jacobson

$32.99

Wolf Hall →

Hilary Mantel

$19.99

Review

The White Tiger →

Aravind Adiga

$24.95

Review

The Gathering →

Anne Enright

$19.95

The Inheritance Of Loss →

Kiran Desai

$24.95

The Blind Assassin →

Margaret Atwood

$24.99


Ned Kelly Awards 2010 Winners

King Of The Cross →

Mark Dapin

$22.99

Wyatt →

Garry Disher

$32.95

Review

Pitcairn: Paradise Lost →

Kathy Marks

$24.99



CBCA Book of the Year Winners 2010

Jarvis 24 →

David Metzenthen

$19.95

Review

Darius Bell And The Glitter Pool →

Odo Hirsch

$15.95

The Hero Of Little Street →

Gregory Rogers

$29.99

Review

Bear And Chook By The Sea →

Lisa Shanahan and Emma Quay

$16.99

Australian Backyard Explorer →

Peter Macinnis

$29.95


Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2010 Winners

Truth →

Peter Temple

$23.95

Raw Blue →

Kirsty Eagar

$19.95

Possession →

Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

$19.95

Legacy →

Larissa Behrendt

$24.95


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