Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2009 Fiction Shortlist
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 →
Everything I Knew
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Peter Goldsworthy's high-octane, fourteen-year-old narrator Robbie Burns has creative energy to burn . . .
. . . physical and mental, sexual and literary, constructive and destructive. Coming of age in a small town peopl... Buy or find out more →
One Foot Wrong
$24.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by ... 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 →
People Of The Book
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning March, Year of Wonders, and the non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street J... Buy or find out more →
The Pages
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels acr... 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 →