Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2011 Shortlisted

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Life Without Me

Daniel Keene

If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you’re headed, you might find yourself spiralling in circles until you come to rest in a crummy two-star…

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To Die For

Mark Svendsen

For his birthday, Christos takes his father’s mackerel dory on his first solo trip. But things go terribly, terrifyingly wrong when Christos runs the dory aground on a reef, attracting…

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The Source of the Sound

Mr Patrick Holland

The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-scene of being lost: motel rooms, alcohol abuse, prostitution ……

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The Golden Day

Ursula Dubosarsky

A haunting and unforgettable novel from a multi-award-winning author.

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Reading Madame Bovary

Amanda Lohrey,Amanda Lohrey

A thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation. In these riveting stories, characters deal with crises of body and spirit. They find themselves caught between order and…

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Graffiti Moon

Cath Crowley

Lucy is in love with Shadow, a mysterious graffiti artist. Ed thought he was in love with Lucy, until she broke his nose. Dylan loves Daisy, but throwing eggs at…

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Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd: Quarterly Essay 38

David Marr

This irreverent, controversial account is a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Rudd’s years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and interviewing…

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Being Here

Barry Jonsberg

The bittersweet story of a girl and a boy, and a secret that was too real to hide. From the bestselling author of The Whole Business with Kiffo and the…

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Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings

Barry Hill,John Wolseley

An explosion of lush images, a collaboration between two distinguished artists - painter John Wolseley and poet Barry Hill - both long fascinated by nature’s beauty and power. This collection…

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Feeling The Heat

Jo Chandler

Journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is…

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Starlight: 150 poems

John Tranter

With a celebrated fifty-year writing career behind him, John Tranter brings to Starlight the sophistication and ease of that experience, as well as enormous energy and exuberance. These new, vital…

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Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia

Penny Russell

In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also…

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Northern Voyagers: Australia’s Monsoon Coast in Maritime History

Alan Powell

The maritime history of Australia’s monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island, has a known story that is far older, more complex and more redolent of men against the…

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A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa and How it Led to the Settlement of Australia

Emma Christopher

Tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to…

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Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the songlines of Carpentaria

John Bradley,Yanyuwa Families

John Bradley’s compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their…

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Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era: Quarterly Essay 40

George Megalogenis

In the aftermath of the 2010 election, Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. He dissects the cycle of polls, focus groups and presidential politics and explores what…

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That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott

In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel’s hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby…

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Caleb’s Crossing

Geraldine Brooks

In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a…

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