The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 2009 Shortlist
Breath
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... Buy or find out more →
Dog Boy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
In a deserted Moscow apartment building four-year-old Romochka waits for Uncle to come home. Outside the snow is falling, but after a few days hunger drives Romochka outside, his mother's voice ringing in his ears. Don't... Buy or find out more →
The Boat
$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... Buy or find out more →
The Pages
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels acr... Buy or find out more →