Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists 2021
The Labyrinth
A moving tale of grief, community and the possibility of starting over, by an award-winning Australian author.
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The Bass Rock
Three women, hundreds of years apart, slip into each other's lives in a novel of darkness, violence and madness.
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Lucky’s
An exuberant, magical Australian saga of family, love and second chances.
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A Treacherous Country
Winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary award - the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors.
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In the Time of Foxes
With an exhilarating span of people and places, In the Time of Foxes shows the short story collection at its most entertaining and rewarding, and introduces Jo Lennan as an irresistible new storyteller.
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Loner
A sharp and unlikely coming-of-age debut novel from Australia's Sally Rooney.
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Metal Fish, Falling Snow
A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an Own Voices YA debut that packs a punch.
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The End of the World Is Bigger than Love
A breathtakingly original novel about love and destruction, from an award-winning Australian children's author.
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When Rain Turns to Snow
A runaway boy, a baby and a whole lot of questions...
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The F Team
Meet Tariq Nader, leader of ‘The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. When the...
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Fly On the Wall
An overprotected boy embarks on a (forbidden) journey to prove his independence.
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The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
Long ago, the little Prince of Cloudburst was stolen from the seashore by a Water Sprite. Now, ten years later, the prince has found his way home. The King and Queen are planning the biggest party in their Kingdom's history to...
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The January Stars
When twelve-year old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit their Pa at his aged-care facility, they have no idea that the three of them will soon set out on an intrepid adventure.
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The Year the Maps Changed
One extraordinary year will change them all...
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How to Make a Bird
Extraordinary imagery and rich language spark the reader's imagination as they enter the creative world of a young girl.
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Change Machine
Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies appear alongside poems that set a pulse...
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Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini,...
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The Stranger Artist
Set in the striking landscape of the East Kimberley, The Stranger Artistis a true story of life, loss and friendship that cuts to the heart of one of Australia's most celebrated art movements.
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The Details: On Love, Death and Reading
A long and intimate relationship with reading has taught acclaimed writer Tegan Bennett Daylight that - in life as in books - the delight is in the details.
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Flight Lines
Andrew Darby follows the extraordinary migratory shorebirds from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back. On these travels he explores the power of science to reveal the mysteries of these birds, and to heal both their...
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The Altar Boys
By six-time Walkley Award-winning investigative reporter Suzanne Smith, The Altar Boys is the powerful expose of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in an Australian city, and how the cover-up in the Catholic...
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People of the River
A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both...
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The Convict Valley
With fascinating stories about convicts, white settlers and the Aboriginal inhabitants that have long been forgotten, The Convict Valley is a new Australian history classic.
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Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970
A new Australian music history seeking to understand disruption and continuation of Aboriginal music and dance and its representation in non-Indigenous performances.
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