2019 literary prize winners
Idaho
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the...
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The Lie And How We Told It
A friendship fumbles and falls apart after an uncertain encounter in this graphic novel from a remarkable new voice.
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An American Marriage
An explosive love story about a marriage interrupted.
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Celestial Bodies
Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.
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The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly
Winner of the Ashurst Business Literature Prize 2019Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively...
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In Our Mad and Furious City
In Our Mad and Furious City follows three young men on a London council estate over 48 hours when suddenly everything is at stake.
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The Biographer’s Lover
The Biographer's Lover is a novel about Australia's complex relationship with memory, and the role gender plays in the ways we represent not only national myths but our private versus our public selves
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Pink Mountain on Locust Island
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction
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Flames
Two siblings traverse the southern island to try to find their way back to each other in this tale about grief and love and the bonds of family.
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Coach Fitz
One of the strangest and most appealing novels you will read this year!
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The Hunter and Other Stories of Men
Winner of the 2019 Russell Prize for Humour WritingA property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a...
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Eggshell Skull
A fiercely intelligent, heartbreakingly honest memoir and feminist call to arms in the tradition of Fight Like A Girl
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
An enchanting and captivating novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is an irresistible, deeply moving, and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the...
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No Friend But the Mountains
An account of life inside Manus detention centre, from journalist and asylum-seeker Behrouz Boochani.
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Family: New vegetable classics to comfort and nourish
Veggies and family favourites take a starring role in this new collection of crowd-pleasing meals, simple sweets and family stories from Hetty McKinnon.
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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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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
This groundbreaking anthology aims to enlighten, inspire and educate about the lives of Aboriginal people in Australia today.
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Neither Here Nor Hair Anthology
Neither Here Nor Hair is heartfelt comics anthology by 14 Australian creators about their relationships with hair (of all kinds). From hilarious to gut-punching, exploring our cultural norms and sometimes rejecting them, 14...
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Murmur
A novel based on the darkest chapter in the life of genius Alan Turing
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Boy Swallows Universe
An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers.
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The Lebs
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
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Interval
The much anticipated second volume from award-winning poet Judith Bishop.
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The Trauma Cleaner
Winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature 2018Winner of the Victorian Premier's...
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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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Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
'People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were...
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The Great Believers
The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.
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The Overstory
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond:An Air...
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The Erratics
This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know.
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
A literary page-turner about the costs of fracking - and one woman's quest to protect her family.
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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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Be With
Forrest Gander's first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
An acclaimed historian's definitive biography of the most important African-American figure of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass, who was to his century what Martin Luther King, Jr. was to the 20th century --
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms
A queer countercultural icon divulges on all things artistic, romantic, and neurotic in this collection of essays.
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Bring Out the Dog: Stories
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a Debut Short Story Collection. A mesmerizing debut collection that reveals what it's like to be a member of an elite special operations team, where missions take place behind...
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The Overstory
The endlessly fascinating new novel from one of the greatest living American novelists.
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The Madonna of the Mountains
Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman...
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Lenny’s Book of Everything
Winner of the 2019 Indie Book Award for children's booksLenny, small and sharp, has a younger brother Davey who won't stop growing - and at seven is as tall as a man. Raised by their single mother, who...
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The Arsonist
On the day that became known as Black Saturday, one man deliberately lit two fires near the small town of Churchill, Gippsland, then stood on the roof of his house and watched the flames. The Arsonist, by the acclaimed author of...
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Welcome to Country
A completely new and inclusive guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands
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Bridge Of Clay
The magnificent, highly anticipated new novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.
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A Song Only I Can Hear
Rob has a huge crush on the new girl at school. But Rob is painfully shy and suffers severe panic attacks. How is her heart to be won? Another wonderful and heart-warming comedy drama from the award-winning author of My Life as an...
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Friday Black
Friday Black heralds the arrival of a thrilling new American literary star.
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Heads of the Colored People
In this crackling debut collection Nafissa Thompson-Spires interrogates our supposedly post-racial era. To wicked and devastating effect she exposes the violence, both external and self-inflicted, that threatens black Americans,...
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
An intimate look into the life and writings of a young Black woman who altered the world
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Love
Winner of the 2019 PEN Translation Prize Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a...
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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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There There
A groundbreaking polyphonic novel, weaving together a dynamic narrative about violence and recovery, family and loss, identity and power.
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Feel Free: Essays
Arranged into four sections--In the World, In the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free--this collection poses questions we may immediately recognize.
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The Carrying: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
The #1 bestselling new collection from National Book Award finalist Ada Limon are 'Exquisite poems about love, fertility, desire, this natural world we move through, the political climate, so much more' Roxane Gay
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
Following on from Coll's Pulitzer Prize winning Ghost Wars, this takes the story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016.
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have...
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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
The first comprehensive biography of Weegee - photographer, psychic , ultimate New Yorker, and the man behind some of the most iconic crime scene shots.
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The Madonna of the Mountains
Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman...
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Taboo
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ...
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Catching Teller Crow
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary AwardsNothing's been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad, a detective, is the only one...
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The Almighty Sometimes
Diagnosed with a severe mental illness as a child, Anna was prescribed a cocktail of pills. Now a young adult, she's wondering how life might feel without them. But as she tries to move beyond the labels that have defined her, her...
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Tilt
Tilt follows the skewed itinerary of attachment and loss, possession and dispossession; the movement of people and things, from Greta Garbo's Manhattan exile to the Green Bans of 1970s Sydney to the precarious passages of...
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Heavy: An American Memoir
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the...
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The Great Believers
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris.
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Feel Free: Essays
Arranged into four sections--In the World, In the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free--this collection poses questions we may immediately recognize.
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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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Assurances
A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the...
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The Cut Out Girl
The last time Lien saw her parents was in The Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a foster family far away to be hidden from the Nazis. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of...
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The Skylarks' War
An evocative and heartbreaking novel of family and friendship in wartime.
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In a Day’s Work: The Hidden Story of Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault...
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The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season by one of our most exciting young poets
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Often regarded as pests, beavers are actually ecological Swiss army knives, capable of tackling any landscape problem.
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