Ned Kelly Awards Shortlists 2011
Prime Cut
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Freemantle Press
The world is in economic meltdown but a mining town of Hopetoun, Western Australia, is booming.
With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime - and a dirty past.
Disgraced police-service golden b... Buy or find out more →
The Old School
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
'P.M. Newton's bitter-sweet thriller is an arresting debut: astonishingly accomplished and as authentic as a .38 bullet wound. File between D for Disher and T for Temple and sweat on the sequel.' - Andrew Rule
Sydney, 19... Buy or find out more →
The Half-Child
$23.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A new case for expat private investigator Jayne Keeney
Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something Aussie who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Aust... Buy or find out more →
Line Of Sight
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
When a brothel madam is shot on a Perth golf course in 1975 it should be a routine murder enquiry. But it isn't. In fact there's barely an investigation at all, and Superintendent Swann thinks he knows why. Heroin is the... Buy or find out more →
Wasted
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Jim McNeil quit school for good. At 14, he started an affair with a brothel madam. For years he relished his life among the thugs, thieves and whores. By his 20s, he was a recidivist, had a wife, six kids and was well on... Buy or find out more →
Honeymoon Dive
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
At 10.42 a.m. on 22 October 2003, while diving around the SS Yongala shipwreck site on the Great Barrier Reef, a diver took what he thought was just one of many underwater photos. But that picture was to tell a desperate... Buy or find out more →
Abandoned: The Sad Death Of Dianne Brimble
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Drugs, sex and a pack of unscrupulous men circling, circling - it was always going to get ugly but no-one foresaw the tragic death of a young woman.
On 24 September, 2002, Queensland mother Dianne Brimble was found dead ... Buy or find out more →
The Diggers Rest Hotel
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
In 1947, two years after witnessing the death of a young Jewish woman in Poland, Charlie Berlin has rejoined the police force a different man. Sent to investigate a spate of robberies in rural Victoria, he soon discovers... Buy or find out more →
Bereft
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train ... Buy or find out more →