Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2010 Shortlists
Parrot And Olivier In America
$32.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
Short listed for the American Book Award
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but h... Buy or find out more →
The Bath Fugues
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Giramondo Publishing
From one if Australia's most lauded writers, comes a wonderfully wrought work, melding intrigue, romance, comedy and deception, taking the form of three interwoven novellas. Castro has won nearly every Australian literar... Buy or find out more →
Summertime
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Completing the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972 - 1977 w... Buy or find out more →
Truth
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more →
Jasper Jones
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.
Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more →
Popeye Never Told You
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
In this memoir of his childhood in England during the Second World War, author Rodney Hall uses a little boy's point of view to tell the story of a time that changed the world. A time that not only changed the world, but... Buy or find out more →
A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, prematurely balding man was charged with forgery. The prisoner claimed he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confid... Buy or find out more →
Captain Cook Was Here
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
This book is a dramatic and lively account of the encounters between Captain Cook, his crew and the Indigenous people of Australia during the Endeavour’s first landing at Botany Bay, on Australia's east coast in 1770. Th... Buy or find out more →
Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
When the past is another country, one that no longer exists.
My daughter was always the non-optional part of this trip.
I needed her to come with me, for better or for worse, not simply because I wanted her to know where... Buy or find out more →
Swerve
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Hugh is 16. He loves cello, he's a closet car fanatic, and he has no luck with girls. When his grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on one last road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8, Hugh decides, for ... Buy or find out more →
Rethinking Antisemitism In Nineteenth Century France
$165.00 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France is a history of the stories the French told about the Jews in their midst during the early nineteenth century. Using a novel cultural analysis that brings together pam... Buy or find out more →
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life In Harlem 1919-1939
$65.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency f... Buy or find out more →
The Adoption Order
$19.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
Ian's fourth collection, Domain was short-listed for The Age Poetry Book of the Year in 2005. Buy or find out more →
Ten Hail Marys
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes.
Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigeno... Buy or find out more →
Hey Mum, What's A Half-Caste?
$24.95 – Paperback book / Magabala
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the h... Buy or find out more →
Raw Blue
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy ... I forget about the underbelly of th... Buy or find out more →
Legacy
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A groundbreaking novel about fathers and daughters, the history we can't change and the future that we can.
Simone Harlowe is a young Indigenous lawyer, straddling two lives and two cultures while studying for her ... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 25: After The Crisis
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Recessions change countries. The global financial crisis will change the world.
Corruption at the heart of the banking system triggered this crisis. In an interconnected world it spread like a pandemic, with remarkable s... Buy or find out more →
Beatle Meets Destiny
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Imagine your name is John Lennon, only everyone calls you Beatle.
And then you meet your Dream girl and her name is Destiny McCartney.
But what if you're already with the perfect girl?
A novel about change, chance and ev... Buy or find out more →
Beneath Our Armour
$19.95 – Paperback book / Hunter Publishers
Beneath Our Armour is unique. These portrait poems cover vast tracts of history, geography, and personae in a way that is at once intimate and epic.
Intimate, because Bakowski imagines his way into the lives of individua... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 34: Stop At Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull
$16.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
What does Malcolm Turnbull stand for? In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb tells the story of the man who would be prime minister. Based on extensive interviews with Turnbull as well as those who have worked with him, this i... Buy or find out more →
Possession
$19.95 – Paperback book / Five Islands Press
Five Islands Press are proud to announce the arrival of a new book: 'POSSESSION: Poems about the Voyage of Lt James Cook in The Endeavour 1768-1771' by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson.
This is Anna’s second book and in it she exp... Buy or find out more →