2018 literary prize winners
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror - the most inventive story you'll read this year.Tonight, Evelyn...
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Normal People
When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a...
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The Book Of Dirt
An extraordinary and absorbing novelisation of one family's tale of Holocaust survival and a grandson's unrelenting dedication to ensuring his ancestor's stories will never be forgotten.
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Border Districts
A new work by a master of contemporary Australian fiction, highly regarded overseas, but little-known here. Giramondo's publication of Border Districts, and the retrospective volume Collected Short Fiction (early next year) is a...
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On The Java Ridge
A literary novel about politics and seeking asylum, with the pace and tension of a political thriller. Plus some of the most compelling writing about the sea since Patrick O'Brian.
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Living In Hope
A memoir of boyhood by a man who was removed as a child - from country, from culture and language, from family, from his mother.
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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a generation of artists...
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Indecency
Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.
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The Emissary
Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness
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The Long Take
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet Robin Robertson follows a demobbed soldier as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America.
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning writer and historian.
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Axiomatic
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the traumas we inherit.
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Segu
Conde depicts the Bambara of 1797, a kingdom in Africa flourishing before thecoming of Islam and slavery. The tale follows the Traore family, a noble clanentrusted by the king. The four Traore sons embody the contemporaneous...
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Pulse Points: Stories
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia's newest and most promising literary talents.
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Milkman
This beautiful and painful novel by Orange Prize shortlisted Anna Burns blends shades of early Edna O'Brien with Eimear McBride's exquisite ability to capture voice.
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The Life to Come
Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious satire on the way we live now and a deeply moving examination of the true nature of friendship.
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Crossing the Lines
Sulari Gentill, author of the 1930s Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, jumps to the post-modern in Crossing the Lines. A successful writer, Madeleine, creates a ....
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And Fire Came Down
Winner of the Davitt Award (Adult Novels) 2018Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife,...
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The Dark Lake
The Dark Lake is a brooding, suspenseful and explosive debut that will grip you from the first page to the last.
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Whiteley on Trial
Offers a tale of obsession, greed and ego, where the richly diverse worlds of art, horse-racing, high finance, the luxury car trade and a humble tradesman collide - and no one is entirely innocent. Except perhaps the tradesman.
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The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Alfred Deakin-scholar, spiritualist, prime minister-was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together...
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The Seabird’s Cry
The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire - beautifully illustrated by artist Kate...
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The High Places
These wide-ranging stories resonate in the way of only the finest writing and the most pleasurable reading. There are storylines that seem straightforward on the surface but have a dozen things circling underneath, others that sit...
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The Trauma Cleaner
Winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary AwardsWinner of the Victorian Prize for Literature 2018 and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for...
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The English Patient
Winner of the Golden Man Booker PrizeA beautiful new limited edition paperback of The English Patient, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list.A small cargo plane will come...
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The Agonist
Winner of the 2016 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.
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Solar Bones
This masterpiece of a novel, narrated in a single sentence, is an international literary sensation, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year
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Home Fire
A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.
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Flights
A literary and imaginative book that explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body, and life and death.
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To Be a Machine
In To Be a Machine, Mark O'Connell presents us with the first full-length exploration of transhumanism: its philosophical and scientific roots, its key players and possible futures. From charismatic techies seeking to enhance the...
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Less
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, Less is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Millions of readers of the 'Little House' books believe they know Laura Ingalls Wilder - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains as her family chased their American dream. But the true story...
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Tracker
Winner of the Stella Prize 2018Miles Franklin-winning author Alexis Wright has crafted a memoir in story form of the charismatic Indigenous leader Tracker Tilmouth, and an epic portrait of a important...
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Chemistry
A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires.
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The Choke
It is quite a feat to write characters with such nuance . . . in harnessing her storytelling facility to expose the flaws in the system with what is becoming trademark.....
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Native: Art and Design with Australian Plants
This richly illustrated book is the ideal source when seeking the perfect feature plant for a space of any size. With stunning photography of gardens old and new, this book captures the most creatively inspiring Australian plants...
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
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Rice
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Drama 2018Everyone has problems to deal with - in the boardroom or the basement, global or local, business or personal. Two multicultural women...
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