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 →
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 →
Man Gone Down
$22.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Winner of the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, an... Buy or find out more →
The Graveyard Book
$16.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals 2009.
'It's going to take more than a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will,' said Silas, 'take a graveyard.'
An original adventure story about a boy raised b... Buy or find out more →
Harris Finds His Feet
$25.99 – Hardcover book / Koala Books
Winner of the 2009 Kate Greenaway Medal
Harris was a very small hare with very big feet. "Why do I have such enormous feet, Grand dad?" Harris sighed . . . Grand dad shows Harris how to hop high into the sky, to climb t... Buy or find out more →
Bog Child
$19.95 – Paperback book / Red Fox Books
Winner of the 2009 Carnegie Medal
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him... Buy or find out more →
Exposure
$16.95 – Paperback book / Walker Books
Winner of the 2090 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
The third Paul Faustino novel by multi-award-winning Mal Peet. A massive soccer star has it all, but someone is plotting his downfall... Revered as a national hero, m... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Bird: New And Selected Poems
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
The Golden Bird brings together the best of Adamson’s work from the last four decades, and many superb new poems. An accessible introduction to... Buy or find out more →
The Boat
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction 2009.
'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'
PETER CRAVEN, Heat
'Nam Le is . . . a distributor of the peace.
'Consider the subjects of his stories: a... Buy or find out more →
Perry Angel's Suitcase: Kingdom Of Silk Book 3
$14.95 – Paperback book / Abc Books
CBCA Younger Readers Book of the Year 2009
It has taken Perry Angel almost seven years to find the place
where he belongs.
Perry arrives at the Kingdom of Silk one day on the 10.30 express,
carrying only a small and sha... Buy or find out more →
Alive In The Death Zone
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
CBCA Eve Pownall Book of the Year 2009
Now in paperback, the inspiring story of a man who was left for dead on Mount Everest and survived.
ALIVE IN THE DEATH ZONE: Mount Everest Survival, Lincoln Hall's story of climbing... Buy or find out more →
Collecting Colour
$16.99 – Paperback book / Lothian
CBCA Picture Book of the Year 2009
Collecting Colour tells the story of a day spent collecting colour in the Top End of the Northern Territory, narrated by a white Australian girl, Rose. Rose s best friend Olive s mother... Buy or find out more →
How To Heal A Broken Wing
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year 2009
In the busy city, no one sees the bird with a broken wing. No one, except a young boy named Will. With the help of his parents, Will takes the bird home to care for it. With res... Buy or find out more →
Tales From Outer Suburbia
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
CBCA Older Readers Book of the Year 2009
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, cre... 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 →
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 →