Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction Shortlist 2008
The Zookeeper's War
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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 →