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Premier's Literary Awards 2008

The Spare Room
Helen Garner

$35.00 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing

An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers

Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no or... Buy or find out more 


Ferocious Summer Palmers Penguins And The Warming Of Antarctica
Meredith Hooper

$19.95 – Trade paperback / Profile

The Antarctic Peninsula is for all of us an early warning system. This brilliant book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular t... Buy or find out more 



Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful
Brigid Lowry

$17.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

This is for the girl with the dodgy sense of humour; for the girl who likes sad songs and blue marbles, the one whose dog got run over by a car, and the one whose cat just had kittens. It's also for the girl who'd rather... Buy or find out more 


The Lamb Enters The Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
Robert Kenny

$39.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian... Buy or find out more 



Anonymous Premonition
Yvette Holt

$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr

Winner of the 2005 David Unaipon Award, Anonymous Premonition gives the low-down on what it is to be an Indigenous woman today.

Her collection of startling and fresh poems treats us to an energetic and unconventional jou... Buy or find out more 


Head Over Heel
Chris Harrison

$29.95 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books

On a holiday trip to Dublin, Australian Chris Harrison was surprised to find himself falling head over heels in love with Daniela, an Italian girl - the girl who persuaded him to leave his Australian life and follow her ... Buy or find out more 



Press Release
Lisa Gorton

$22.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing

Press Release, is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria during the end of World War II. A meditation on ambition, patience and waste, it explores the history of settlement through elegy, dramatic monologue, t... Buy or find out more 


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