Literary Awards 2009
Literary Award Winners 2009
Let The Great World Spin
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction.
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterio... More »
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Things We Didn't See Coming
$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )
It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions.
The ensuing journey spans decades and off... More »
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Olive Kitteridge
$22.99 (Paperback book / Pocket Books )
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town ... More »
Herta Müller (Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature)
The Passport
Herta Müller
Nadirs
Herta Müller
The Appointment
Herta Müller
The Land Of Green Plums
Herta Müller
The Land Of Green Plums
Herta Müller
Traveling On One Leg
Herta Müller
Walkley Non-Fiction Award 2009 Longlist
The Killing Of Caroline Byrne: A Journey For Justice
Robert Wainwright
Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed
Matthew Peacock
Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World
Iain McCalman
Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History
Jenny Hocking
The Age Book of the Year Winners 2009
Down To The Crossroads: On The Trail Of The 2008 US Presidential Election
Guy Rundle
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2009
World Fantasy Awards 2009 Shortlist - Novels
The House Of The Stag
Kage Baker
The Shadow Year
Jeffrey Ford
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium
Daryl Gregory
Eisner Award Winners 2009
Swallow Me Whole
Nate Powell
The Last Musketeer
Jason
Tiny Titans: Welcome To The Treehouse
Art Baltazar, Franco
Acme Novelty Library 19
Chris Ware
Invincible Iron Man
Matt Fraction
What It Is
Lynda Barry
IMPAC Literary Award 2009 Shortlist
Man Gone Down
Michael Thomas
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Animal's People
Indra Sinha
The Indian Clerk
David Leavitt
The Burnt-Out Town Of Miracles
Roy Jacobsen
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
Orange Prize 2009 Winners
An Equal Stillness
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
Winner of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writing.
Born in 1924, Jennet Mallow grows up in Yorkshire, the daughter of a minister haunted by memories of war and a mother who craves the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Entranced b... More »
Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 Shortlist
Home
Marilynne Robinson
Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie
Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey
Molly Fox's Birthday
Deirdre Madden
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2009
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
The Shadow Of Sirius
W.S. Merwin
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Ruined
Lynn Nottage
American Lion Andrew Jackson In The White House
Jon Meacham
Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009 Shortlist
Forbidden Cities
Paula Morris
The Shallow End
Ashley Sievwright
Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2008
The Lamb Enters The Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
$39.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian... More »
Slicing The Silence: Voyaging To Antarctica
$34.95$19.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
In the summer of 2002/03, acclaimed writer and historian Tom Griffiths voyaged the Southern Ocean to Antarctica. He was on board the first Australian ship to slice the silence of a year, arriving at Casey Station to deli... More »
John Button Prize 2009 Longlist
The Henson Case
David Marr
Quarterly Essay 34: Stop At Nothing
Annabel Crabb
The Times Will Suit Them
Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe
Denial: History Betrayed
Tony Taylor
Eisner Award Winners 2009
Swallow Me Whole
Nate Powell
The Last Musketeer
Jason
Tiny Titans: Welcome To The Treehouse
Art Baltazar, Franco
Acme Novelty Library 19
Chris Ware
Invincible Iron Man
Matt Fraction
What It Is
Lynda Barry
CBCA Books of the Year 2009
Perry Angel's Suitcase: Kingdom Of Silk Book 3
Glenda Millard
Collecting Colour
Kylie Dunstan
Alive In The Death Zone: Mount Everest Survival
Lincoln Hall
National Book Awards 2009 (Fiction Finalists)
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Lark and Termite
Jayne Anne Phillips
American Salvage
Bonnie Jo Campbell
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin
National Book Awards 2009 (Non-Fiction Finalists)
Following The Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
David M. Carroll
National Book Awards 2009 (Poetry Finalists)
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
Keith Waldrop
Open Interval
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Versed
Rae Armantrout
Or To Begin Again
Ann Lauterbach
Speak Low
Carl Phillips
National Book Awards 2009 (Young People's Literature Finalists)
Jumped
Rita Williams-Garcia
Lips Touch: Three Times
Laini Taylor
Stitches: A Memoir
David Small
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip M. Hoose
Inky Award Winners 2009
Where The Streets Had A Name
$16.99 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )
Winner of the 2009 Inky Award for Australian teenage fiction.
I need to see Sitti Zeynab one last time. To know if I will have the courage to go ahead with my plan. The two nurses look frazzled and smile wearily at me. '... More »
The Hunger Games
$18.99 (Paperback book / Scholastic )
Winner of the 2009 Silver Inky Award for international teenage fiction.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to... More »
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