PM's Literary Awards Shortlisted Books
How To Make Gravy
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between son... Buy or find out more →
The Hard Light Of Day: An Artist's Story Of Friendships In Arrernte Country
$39.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction.
A story of whitefella–blackfella friendship that offers hope for the future
Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs to teach painting, he met ... Buy or find out more →
Glissando: A Melodrama
$27.95$0.00 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
When it comes to looking back over his life, Archie Fliess has got some understanding to do. So begins a sprawling reflection on Archie's life during the early twentieth century, starting the day the fortunes of Archie a... Buy or find out more →
Graffiti Moon
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing... Buy or find out more →
Now
$19.95 – Paperback book / Viking
Set in the current day, this is the final book in the series that began with Once, continued with Then and is... Now. Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is widely admired. He has mostly buried t... Buy or find out more →
April Underhill: Tooth Fairy
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
High in the sky above Parkville, toothfairies April and Esme Underhill are on their way to collect their very first tooth
April and Esme Underhill have never collected a tooth before. Mum and Dad always do it. But tonigh... Buy or find out more →
The Piper's Son
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Melina Marchetta's brilliant, heart-wrenching new novel takes up the story of the group of friends from her best-selling, much-loved book Saving Francesca - only this time it's five years later and Thomas Mackee is the o... Buy or find out more →
Why I Love Australia
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Little Hare
From the coast to the outback, from cities to plains, from dramatic gorges to rugged alpine peaks, from deserts to rainforests . Australia is a continent of many and varied landscapes. Each of them is dramatic and all in... Buy or find out more →
Flyaway
$16.99 – Paperback book / Chicken House
In this touching novel for ages 10+, Lucy Christopher explores the remarkable bond between a young girl, a boy and a damaged wild bird - a relationship that will touch everyone who reads it. While visiting her father in ... Buy or find out more →
About A Girl
$17.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A spellbinding love story between two young women that unfolds like a series of paintings and explores the tender moments that pull them together and the secrets that push them apart.
I remember when we lay together for ... Buy or find out more →
Good Oil
$18.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Reminiscent of Looking for Alibrandi, this bittersweet story of first love and second thoughts will capture your heart and make you laugh.
'Miss Amelia Hayes, welcome to The Land of Dreams. I am the staff trainer. I will... Buy or find out more →
The Three Loves Of Persimmon
$17.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Persimmon lives a solitary life, pouring her passion into the florist shop she owns in the underground railway station. Her only companion is Rose, a talking cabbage. Intriguing young men come and go but Persimmon has ye... Buy or find out more →
Shake A Leg
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Children's Fiction.
A unique picture book collaboration about having fun, sharing culture and the power of story and dance. A picture book to get the whole town dancing.
From... Buy or find out more →
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet In The Laboratory
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Usa
Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the modern classic Tristes Tropiques , was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the work of Michel Foucaul... Buy or find out more →
When Colts Ran
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Alfred A Knopf
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
There was nothing more definite when it came to promise than the worn old earth.'
In this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failed promise, multi-award-wi... Buy or find out more →
Sydney
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Nsw University Pr
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss."
Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of o... Buy or find out more →
Notorious
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A literary mystery, a love story, a book of poetry and violation, faith and chaos, redemption and destruction, Notorious is a masterpiece of imagination and evocation. It will take your breath away.
She came walking out ... Buy or find out more →
Traitor
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s... Buy or find out more →