Literary Awards 2009
Literary Award Winners 2009
Wolf Hall
$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... Buy or find out more →
Breath
$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 ... Buy or find out more →
Let The Great World Spin
$32.95$14.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Churchill and Australia
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2009 Walkley Nonfiction Book Award.
Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a troubled ... Buy or find out more →
Walkley Non-Fiction Award 2009 Longlist
The Mother Of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad →
Sally Neighbour
$34.99
Orange Prize 2009 Winners
Home
$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... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
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... Buy or find out more →
Slicing The Silence: Voyaging To Antarctica
$34.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
John Button Prize 2009 Longlist
Quarterly Essay 34: Stop At Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull →
Annabel Crabb
$16.95
National Book Awards 2009 (Non-Fiction Finalists)
The Poison King: : The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy →
Adrienne Mayor
$49.95
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species →
Sean B. Carroll
$32.95
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. '... Buy or find out 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... Buy or find out more →
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