NSW Premier's Literary Award 2009 Winners
A Fraction Of The Whole
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Meet the Deans.
Heroes or criminals?
Crackpots of visionaries?
Relatives or enemies?
It's a simple family story...
From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... 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 →
Man Wolf Man
$0.00 – Paperback book / John Leonard
LK Holt’s poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns fo... Buy or find out more →
The Word Spy
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Award-wining young adult author Ursula Dubosarsky teams up with cult illustrator Tohby Riddle to create this entertaining journey through the English language. Learn more about where the alphabet came from, find out what... Buy or find out more →
A Brief History Of Montmaray
$18.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
In the early 1980s, Paul Keating set out to reinvent the Australian economy. He floated the Australian dollar, liberated banking and finance from its regulatory shackles, and — most significantly — introduced a universal... Buy or find out more →
Destination Australia: Migration to Australia since 1901
$39.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
In 1901 most Australians were loyal, white subjects of the British Empire with direct connections to Britain. Within a hundred years, following an unparalleled immigration program, its population was one of the most dive... Buy or find out more →
First Australians
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is over... Buy or find out more →
The Good Parents
$21.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jaco... Buy or find out more →