Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlist 2017

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Dragonfly Song

Wendy Orr

There are two ways of looking at Aissa’s story. She’s the miracle girl who escaped the raiders. Or she’s the cursed child who called the Bull King’s ship to the…

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One Would Think the Deep

Claire Zorn

CBCA Book of the Year Award Winner (Older Readers) 2017

Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing…

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The Stars at Oktober Bend

Glenda Millard

A magnificent new novel from multi-award-winning author Glenda Millard. A story about the strength of the human spirit. Through her lyrical writing, Glenda reveals that people are always more than…

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Forgetting Foster

Dianne Touchell

The powerful story of a young boy whose father develops Alzheimer’s disease, from the highly acclaimed author of A Small Madness.

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The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon

Subhi’s imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he’s spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The…

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Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley

This is a love story. It’s the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. It’s the story of how we leave our histories in the things we love - like…

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Fragments

Antigone Kefala

Antigone  Kefala is one of the elders of Australian poetry, highly regarded for the intensity of her vision, yet not widely known, on account of the small number  of poems…

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Content

Liam Ferney

In his latest collection, Liam Ferney focuses on the deep contradictions at the heart of modern life. Content is a hand grenade tossed into the middle of polite society. Ferney…

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Year of the Wasp

Joel Deane

‘It is rare and electrifying to read poetry with this much at stake. These poems are ‘written in blood ink’: everywhere charged with terror and longing. Written after a stroke…

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Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent

Mr Peter Brune,Neil McDonald

Chester Wilmot brought the triumphs and tragedies of warfare into the homes of millions. He was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and…

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A Passion For Exploring New Countries: Matthew Flinders and George Bass

Josephine Bastian

‘Australian history … does not read like history’, Mark Twain complained in 1897, ‘but like the most beautiful lies … It is full of surprises and adventures, incongruities, and contradictions…

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Evatt: A life

John Murphy

John Murphy’s Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the…

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Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story

Elizabeth Tynan

In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them - and left the public completely in…

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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off

Charlie Ward

Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia herald a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs…

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The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

Sebastian Smee

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists-Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon-whose fraught, competitive friendships…

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Quicksilver

Nicolas Rothwell

Six essays exploring the connections between old world Europe, aboriginal Australia, religion, meaning and the power of the sacred.

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Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow

Suzanne Falkiner

Randolph Stow was one of the great Australian writers of his generation. His novel To the Islands - written in his early twenties after living on a remote Aboriginal mission…

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Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead

Thornton McCamish

A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation … and yet forgotten? In…

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The Last Days Of Ava Langdon

Mark O'Flynn,Mark O'Flynn

Winner of the Voss Literary Prize 2017

Ava Langdon is often not herself. Having fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now…

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Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

Ryan O'Neill

Absurd, original and highly addictive … In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall…

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The Easy Way Out

Steven Amsterdam

A wickedly funny novel about life’s saddest moments, The Easy Way Out explores the issues of assisted suicide and the right to die

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