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Inky Awards 2008 - Australian Longlist

A Brief History Of Montmaray
Michelle Cooper

$17.95 (Paperback book / Random House )

I need to write down what has just happened. I need to set down the truth. If I write lies or if I write nothing at all, this journal is worthless. I must do this, in case anything happens. All right. This is what happen... More »

Michael Sweeney's Method
Sean Condon

$19.95 (Paperback book / Puffin )

Michael Sweeney and his friend Dud are just two of the many invisible nothings at their expensive school. They come from deep in the suburbs and they're not cool or tough or even that brainy. So they're pretty much left ... More »


Finding Darcy
Sue Lawson

$19.00 (Paperback book / Black Dog Books )

When Darcy Abbott is sent to live with her surly grandmother and silent great-grandmother (and a TV curfew of 9.30 and no internet access) for three months, she discovers a mystery regarding the death of her great-grandf... More »

Town
James Roy

$19.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

From a town near you comes thirteen linked stories, spanning a year in the lives of thirteen young people.

You'll live their love and loss, grief, humour and passion; feel their hope and hopelessness. From the serendipit... More »


The Indigo Girls: Girlfriend Fiction 2
Penni Russon

$14.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Zara's an alpha - the first letter of the Greek alphabet. She's popular. I'm more like one of the obscure letters in the middle that no one's ever heard of - an omicron or something.



Zara, Tilly and Mieke go to differen... More »

Joel And Cat Set The Story Straight
Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow

$19.95 (Paperback book / Puffin )

Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight is two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis. Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high school without Cat Davis or his mother's faux Spanish boyfriend and just ... More »


Game As Ned
Tim Pegler

$15.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

I know what people say. They reckon I'm simple. Call me dumb. Retard. Spastic. Some of them don't even bother doing it behind my back. They don't get a response so they do it to my face. Think I don't understand.

Ned is ... More »

Kill The Possum
James Moloney

$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

A girl desperate to live a normal life.

A family tormented by a monster's cruelty.

Two boys with a plan to make him stop. Forever.



From the award-winning author of Lost Property and Bridge to Wiseman's Cove comes a grip... More »


Our Little Secret
Allayne Webster

$18.00 (Paperback book / Omnibus Books )

When fourteen-year-old Edwina Saltmarsh hears the news that her best friend's sister, Anne-Marie, has been raped, she doesn't know what to think. Does she side with her mother and the other adults around her? Did Anne-Ma... More »

Tales From Outer Suburbia
Shaun Tan

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )

Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?

Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?

Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?

Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and T... More »

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