Dylan Thomas Prize for Young Writers 2010 Longlist
The Rehearsal
$19.99 – Paperback book / Granta
A dazzlingly assured and bold novel revolving around a school sex scandal ...
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity s... Buy or find out more →
Jasper Jones
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.
Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more →
Black Mamba Boy
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds himself alone in the world.
Jama is forced home to his native Somalia... Buy or find out more →
The Still Point
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Portobello
At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for d... Buy or find out more →
And This Is True
$32.95$27.95 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
'I kissed my father once, when he was sleeping.'
Nevis Gow is fifteen. For eleven years he has lived in a van with his father Marshall, travelling the country. They don't need people or school or jobs. All they need is e... Buy or find out more →
The Girl With Glass Feet
$22.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
'Ali Saw has written a rare orchid of book, beautiful and
eccentric and exquisitely sad.' Patrick Ness
A mysterious and frightening metamorphosis has befallen Ida
MacLaird – she is slowly turning into glass. She... Buy or find out more →
Family Planning
$27.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Mr Ahuja, Delhi's Minister of Urban Development, has too much on his hands: thirteen children and another on the way. All at sea among his sprawling, noisy brood he reaches out to Arjun, his eldest, and seemingly wisest,... Buy or find out more →
In This Way I Was Saved
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn't hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided my time. Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but he has one friend, h... Buy or find out more →