The shortlists for the 2012 Indie Awards have been announced, with books by Anna Funder, Gillian Mears, Paul Keating and Anh Do all making the cut.
The awards, which honour the best Australian books from the past year, are chosen by independent booksellers around the nation, and the winners in each category, as well as the overall 'Book of the Year' award, will be announced on Wednesday 14 March.
Congratulations all! The full shortlists are:
Fiction
- Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
- The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
- Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
- Five Bells by Gail Jones
Non-Fiction
- Worse Things Happen at Sea by William McInnes and Sarah Watt
- Notebooks by Betty Churcher
- After Words: Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches by Paul Keating
- A Private Life by Michael Kirby
Debut Fiction
- Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
- All That I Am by Anna Funder
- The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
- Watercolours by Adrienne Ferreira
Children's Books
- The Jewel Fish of Karnak by Graeme Base
- The Little Refugee by Anh and Suzanne Do (illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
- The Coming of the Whirlpool: Ship Kings Book One by Andrew McGahan
- The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
