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Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2009 Winners

Drawing the Global Colour Line
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

$36.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )

"[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local par... More »

House Of Exile
Evelyn Juers

$32.99 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )

In 1933 the prominent author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger were forced to flee Germany, finding refuge in France and later, in great despair, Los Angeles. There Nelly committed suicid... More »

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The Boat
Nam Le

$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... More »

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