The Age Book of the Year 2012 Shortlisted Books
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever. Buy or find out more→
Late Night Shopping
$24.95 – Paperback / Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd
These are poems that reflect many aspects of the human condition and the individual, from poems about love and death, the family, science, the natural world and historical figures such as Ned Kelly and Charles Darwin. Her... Buy or find out more→
First Light
$24.00 – Paperback
First Light observes the details of the world with curious and restive attention. It explores the threshold between things and words, seeking out places where music and language are equal in charting human experience. Some... Buy or find out more→
What The Family Needed
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Read our Q&A with Steven Amsterdam about What the Family Needed. "Okay, tell me which do you... Buy or find out more→
Spirit House
$32.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Long ago, Jimmy Reubens was a POW on the Thai-Burma Railway. For more than four decades, he has staved off the ghosts of his past by drinking too much, outstaying his welcome at his local RSL, and bickering with his three closest... Buy or find out more→
Foal's Bread
$33.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2012 PM's Literary Award for Fiction Read our Q&A with Gillian Mears about... Buy or find out more→
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait - and so changed the shape of... Buy or find out more→
Surface to Air
$24.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Focuses on such themes as: the archaeological exposure of history, both personal and cultural; the struggle for literal inspiration, in contemporary life, with issues ranging from consumerism to personal grievance and loss; and,... Buy or find out more→
Kinglake-350
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read Adrian Hyland's interview with Meg Mundell about Kinglake-350. Kinglake-350 to VKC.... Buy or find out more→
The Welfare of My Enemy
$24.00 – Paperback / Puncher and Wattmann
Too much information can be hard to swallow. Time will often tell when leads are hard to follow. Evidence blows away when the earth is fallow. Some seeds take. Some graves are shallow. Blending verse... Buy or find out more→
The Brokenness Sonnets 1-111 and Other Poems
$22.95 – Paperback / Five Islands Press
Winner of the Age Book of the Year award for Poetry 2012 Mal McKimmie’s poems knock the breath out of you. They are powerful works full of strange imagery and unusual juxtapositons. The Tau of Smoking... Buy or find out more→