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Literary Awards 2009

Literary Award Winners 2009

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

$32.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )

Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into t... More »

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Breath
Tim Winton

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award

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 ... More »

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The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a ... More »

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Let The Great World Spin
Colum McCann

$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
Steven Amsterdam

$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
Elizabeth Strout

$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 »



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 )

Things We Didn't See Coming
Steven Amsterdam

$24.95 (Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing )

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Better Than God
Peter Porter

$29.99 (Paperback book / Picador )


Orange Prize 2009 Winners

Home
Marilynne Robinson

$24.99 (Paperback book / Virago )

Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Following on from the magnificent GILEAD, HOME takes up the story of the wayward son Jack who, after decades away, edgily and uneasily, but finally, returns home. He is the pr... More »

An Equal Stillness
Francesca Kay

$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 »



Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2008

The Lamb Enters The Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
Robert Kenny

$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
Tom Griffiths

$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 »



Inky Award Winners 2009

Where The Streets Had A Name
Randa Abdel-Fattah

$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
Suzanne Collins

$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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