NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2010: Fiction Shortlist
Ransom
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
David Malouf shines new light on Homer’s ILIAD, adding twists and reflections, as well as flashes of earthy humour, to surprise and enchant.
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In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by... Buy or find out more →
The World Beneath
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle-age ... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$39.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →
Wanting
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Abori... Buy or find out more →
Jasper Jones
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.
Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more →