Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists 2018

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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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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The Restorer
An extraordinary literary novel set in Newcastle in 1989, about the devastating fault lines that can run in families.
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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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The Museum of Words
In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. Prior to this, Georgia's only warning had been a niggling sense that her speech was slightly awry. She ignored it, and on a...
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Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion
An astonishing work of creative non-fiction, about the enigma at the heart of modern medicine, and the mystery of the interrupted self.
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The Trauma Cleaner
A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos .
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For a Girl: A true story of secrets, motherhood and hope
Memories and secrets buried for over twenty years surfaced after Mary-Rose MacColl gave birth to a much longed-for baby.
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No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson
Vocalist. Actor. Athlete. Agitator. Icon. Martyr.
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Tracker
Miles 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 period in the political life of Australia, reminiscent in...
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Argosy
This innovative first full-length collection from Australian poet Bella Li draws inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography.
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The Metronome
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Living on Hope Street
We all love someone. We all fear something. Sometimes they live right next door - or even closer.
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Ida
Ida is an intelligent, diverse and entertaining novel that explores love, loss and longing, and speaks to the condition of an array of overwhelming, and often illusory, choices.
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Because of You
Meet Tiny and Nola. Two very different girls with two very different stories who are just trying to find a place to belong. A powerful and compelling novel about friendship, love and acceptance.
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