The shortlist for the 2019 Voss Literary Prize has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

• Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader
• The Making of Martin Sparrow by Peter Cochrane
• Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
• The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
• Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
• The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton

Launched in 2014, the Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, and is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss.

For more information about the Voss Literary Prize prize, please see here.