The 2022 Age Book of the Year winners — Readings Books

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The 2022 Age Book of the Year winners have been announced! This year the award once again encompassed a prize for nonfiction as well as for fiction.


Miles Allinson has won the Fiction prize for his sophomore novel, In Moonland, while Bernadette Brennan has won the Non-fiction prize for her work of biography, Leaping Into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears. Each winner receives $10,000 thanks to the Copyright Agency. The winners were announced during last night’s Melbourne Writers Festival opening gala.


Want to learn more about these award-winning books? Read our review of In Moonland here ,or listen to our live-recorded podcast for Leaping into Waterfalls here.