Literary Award Winners 2009
Let The Great World Spin
$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
$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
$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 »
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 ... 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... More »
Man Gone Down
$27.95 (Paperback book / )
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... More »
The Graveyard Book
$16.99 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Winner of the Newbery Medal 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 by the resident... 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... 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... More »
Something In The World Called Love
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Winner of the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for Young Adult Fiction
It's true, there's something in the world called love. Esma felt it when she moved into the house with the blue stairs. There was Kara beside ... 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... 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... 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... 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... More »
How To Heal A Broken Wing
$27.95 (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... More »
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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... More »
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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... More »
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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. '... More »