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Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction Shortlist 2008

The Zookeeper's War
Steven Conte

$22.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Winner of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Prize for Fiction.

In Berlin, who can you trust?

A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ...

It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin ... Buy or find out more 


Burning In
Mirielle Juchau

$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing

In her late twenties, Martine Hartmann moves from Sydney to New York to pursue her career as a photographer, leaving behind her mother Lotte, a holocaust survivor. Nine years later, Martine's daughter Ruby goes missing i... Buy or find out more 



El Dorado
Dorothy Porter

$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador

'There is a serial child killer stalking the streets of Melbourne. He kills his victims gently and places a gold mark on their head. The mark of El Dorado. He doesn't kill because he hates children, but because he loves ... Buy or find out more 


Jamaica
Malcolm Knox

$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

WELCOME TO JAMAICA, HAVE A NICE BREAKDOWN.



A group of six friends converge on the fabled island of Jamaica to compete in a marathon relay swim across treacherous water. Most have known each other since school, scions of... Buy or find out more 



Sorry
Gail Jones

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness... Buy or find out more 


The Complete Stories
David Malouf

$30.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage

In this stunning collection, internationally acclaimed writer David Malouf gives us bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse. These... Buy or find out more 



The Widow And Her Hero
Tom Keneally

$0.00 – Paperback book / Vintage

I knew in general terms I was marrying a hero. The burden lay lightly on Leo, and to be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. The Japanese had barely been turned away. It... Buy or find out more 


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