Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2011 Shortlisted
Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania's Forests
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games ... Buy or find out more →
Good Living Street: The Fortunes Of My Viennese Family
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
From high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval.
In 1900 Vienna w... Buy or find out more →
Caleb's Crossing
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Once again, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks takes an unlikely shard of little-known history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young Indian named Caleb from the island of Martha′s Vineyard became th... Buy or find out more →
That Deadman Dance
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In ... Buy or find out more →
Roddy Parr
$32.99$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A witty, seductive and moving novel of a famous writer and his protégé
Roddy Parr takes us into the luminous circle of a literary giant. It is a world of family intrigues, importunate fans -- and dark secrets. Roddy Pa... Buy or find out more →
The English Class
$32.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
'an utterly authentic story which deepens our understanding of both Chinese and Australian culture, an epic journey across languages and cultures, recounted with all Ouyang Yu’s compelling honesty and passion.’ Alex Mill... Buy or find out more →
Guantanamo: My Journey
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Heinemann
Guantanamo: My Journey is the first published account by David Hicks of the years leading up to his incarceration in the infamous US military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, his time as a detainee, and his search for a... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents?
The Hawke,... Buy or find out more →
Singing Saltwater Country: Journey To The Songlines Of Carpentaria
$39.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming.
At twenty John Bradley was sent ... Buy or find out more →
When It Rains: A Memoir
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The heart-wrenching but triumphant story of rebuilding a life and a family
'My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss … One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five ye... Buy or find out more →
An Eye For Eternity: The Life Of Manning Clark
$54.99 – Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press
Manning Clark (1915–1991) was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna’s compelling biography of this giant of Australia’s cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark’s extensive private letters, j... Buy or find out more →
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story Of Britain's Convict Disaster In Africa And How It Led To The Settlement Of Australia
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony... Buy or find out more →
Northern Voyages: Australia's Monsoon Coast In Maritime History
$49.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
The maritime history of Australia’s monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island, has a known story that is far older, more complex and more redolent of men against the sea than any other coast of the contine... Buy or find out more →
Savage Or Civilised? Manners In Colonial Australia
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also s... Buy or find out more →
The Many Worlds Of R.H. Mathews: In Search Of An Australian Anthropologist
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, R.H. Mathews, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His chi... Buy or find out more →
Henry Hoey Hobson
$16.95 – Paperback book / Woolshed Press
Twelve-and-a-half-year-old Henry Hoey Hobson is drowning in the dangerous waters of Year Seven. He arrives at his sixth school in as many years, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, to discover that he is the only boy in the g... Buy or find out more →
Just A Dog
$14.99 – Paperback book / Omnibus Books
Mr Mosely isn't a pedigreed dog, but he is just the dog Corey and his family want: he is loyal, protective and loving. And he is much more than that. He might well be the one thing that holds them all together. Buy or find out more →
The Staring Owl
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Omnibus Books
The Staring Owl finds it hard to fit in. Having been brought up to stare at everything and everyone, he finds that most people, and even the ducks at the park, don't enjoy that level of scrutiny. Although he can always g... Buy or find out more →
Bill Rules
$14.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Bill and Matty are the best of friends. Matty is headstrong, willful and entertaining; Bill is loyal, patient and devoted to Matty. They are also neighbours which means their lives are intertwined and daily 'thinktanks' ... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For Later
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
Later never seems to come soon enough! But sometimes waiting for later can be full of surprises.
Even though Nancy is big, one day she feels small. She asks her mum, brother, cousin, aunt and grandfather to play with her... Buy or find out more →
Burning Bright
$24.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Award-winning poet Caroline Caddy’s latest collection is an acutely observed meditation on her encounters with the world.
The Australian Book Review said Caddy’s ‘carefully crafted poems are refreshing journeys of disc... Buy or find out more →
Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP’s federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Si... Buy or find out more →
Starlight
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
An outstanding new collection from one of Australia's most respected poets
With a celebrated fifty-year writing career behind him, John Tranter brings to Starlight the sophistication and ease of that experience, as well ... Buy or find out more →
Medicinal Plants In Australia: Volume One Bush Pharmacy
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Rosenberg Publishing
The discovery of the pharmacy of the Australian bush began when humankind first set foot on the continent. Later, the first European visitors found a plethora of plants new to science, with a resultant fervour for unique... Buy or find out more →
Feeling The Heat
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the d... Buy or find out more →
Lines For Birds Poems And Paintings
$59.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
They follow flight paths and habitats of birds, from the Victorian Mallee to the forests of South East Asia, to Japan and the South of France. Sometimes, as the painter says, its almost as if I am looking at the earth wi... Buy or find out more →
You Can Get Only So Close On Google Earth
$19.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
In this first collection, Ann Shenfield’s often tentatively articulated thoughts and anecdotes are realized as poems almost in spite of themselves. The little narratives build—and they are narratives rather than lyrical ... Buy or find out more →
Being Here
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The bittersweet story of a girl and a boy, and a secret that was too real to hide. From the bestselling author of The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull.
The boy sat in the branches of the fifth tree on the left, ... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey Of Kevin Rudd
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transforma... Buy or find out more →
Graffiti Moon
$16.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist.
Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose.
Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing... Buy or find out more →
Known Unknowns
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection. Set largely in Washington DC immediately after Sept... Buy or find out more →
Reading Madame Bovary
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read Amanda Lohrey's guest blog post about Reading Madame Bovary.
From one of Australia’s leading short-fiction writers comes a thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation.
A woman fin... Buy or find out more →
Other Stories
$26.95 – Paperback book / Black Pepper
Wayne Macauley’s Other Stories is a much-awaited collection. Here at last Macauley’s peculiar take on the world is gathered together in short stories, satires, fables and anecdotes. Many are set in the hinterland of the ... Buy or find out more →
Big River, Little Fish
$19.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
The compelling and cinematic second novel from Belinda Jeffrey, author of Brown Skin Blue.
Big River, Little Fish is the highly anticipated second novel from Belinda Jeffrey. Set in South Australia during the 1956 Murray... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Day
$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A beautiful, haunting novel from the author of the multi-awarding winning The Red Shoe. Set in 1967, and imbued with the atmosphere and psychological intrigue of Picnic at Hanging Rock.
There were only eleven of them, li... Buy or find out more →
The Source Of The Sound
$24.95 – Paperback book / Salt Publishing
The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental contact with light and sound; the... Buy or find out more →
To Die For
$16.95 – Paperback book / Woolshed Press
An epic battle between a boy, a boat and a shark DESCRIPTION OF BOOK With a crack as though her back was breaking the dory lurched downwards. Christos felt himself twist, then fall inexorably, towards the head of the inq... Buy or find out more →
Charles Bean's Great War
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd
In this dramatised documentary, Charles Bean, respected reporter and writer, tells us all about his remarkable life. After graduating from Oxford University, Bean began work with the Sydney Morning Herald as a leading fe... Buy or find out more →
Snowtown
$34.95 – Digital video disc /
Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mother, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, Alex and Nicholas, in a housing trust home in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Their home is but one of many sun-starved houses crammed toget... Buy or find out more →
Eucalypts: A Celebration
$65.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A superbly illustrated celebration of the beauty and diversity of Australia's most iconic and best-known trees.
'The tallest and most stately trees I ever saw in any nobleman's ground in England cannot excel in beauty th... Buy or find out more →
Life Without Me
$18.95 – Paperback book / Currency
If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you’re headed, you might find yourself spiralling in circles until you come to rest in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn’t work,... Buy or find out more →
Offspring: Series 1
$59.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Nina Proudman's (Asher Keddie) career as an obstetrician is full of surprises; her ex-husband is an explosives expert who detonates to demonstrate his undying love for her; her family life is never short of emergencies; ... Buy or find out more →
East West 101: Series 3
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd
Zane Malik is a key detective in a Major Crime Squad led by female boss Patricia Wright. The Squad with newcomer Detective Neil Travis investigates a sophisticated robbery pulled by military trained men. Is this just a r... Buy or find out more →