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Queensland Premier's Literary Award

The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225 000 in prize money offered across 14 categories. The awards offer Australian established and aspiring authors the opportunity to gain recognition in the literary community as well as providing financial assistance to support the development of high quality writing.

2010  Fiction Award
Summertime Summertime
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 19721977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town w ...
RRP: $24.95
PRICE: $23.45
Delivery:
7-10 Days
 Non Fiction Award
The Blue Plateau The Blue Plateau
Author: Mark Tredinnick
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General

The Blue Plateau is a lyrical exploration of a classic Australian landscape - the Blue Mountains - and its people, and the story of one man's journey to find home. The book's evocative narrative follows the author's atte ...
RRP: $26.95
PRICE: $25.33
Delivery:
7-10 Days
 History Award
Sydney Harbour Sydney Harbour
Author: Ian Hoskins
Category:History - Maritime History
Category:Transportation - Ships & Shipbuilding History
Category:Travel - Travel Writing General
Category:Travel - Travel Writing Pictorial & Photography

In 1925 DH Lawrence described a huge, restless, modern Sydney, whose million inhabitants seem to slip like fishes from one side of the harbour to the other. What was true then had been the case for centuries before, and ...
RRP: $49.95
PRICE: $46.95
Delivery:
10-15 Days
 Children's Book Award
Toppling Toppling
Author: Sally Murphy
Category:Childrens Fiction - Readers

Dominic Fraser likes footy and soccer and cricket. He has a dog named Butch and five goldfish but no brothers or sisters. He's funny and loyal and he's my best mate.

But when John's friend Dominic becomes ill, Joh ...
RRP: $15.95
PRICE: $14.99
Delivery:
7-10 Days
 Short Story Award
Little White Slips Little White Slips
Author: Karen Hitchcock
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Comics & Graphic Novels General
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories General
Category:Fiction - Anthologies, Series & Short Stories Single Author

Whether tackling a troubled marriage using an action figure of Sigmund Freud, celebrating the apparent triumph of weight loss, or coping with the stresses of balancing a career with motherhood, the joys and frustrations ...
RRP: $29.99
PRICE: $28.19
Delivery:
7-10 Days
 Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate
Requiem for a Species Requiem for a Species
Author: Clive Hamilton
Category:Politics & Government -

Around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. And it is about the 21st-century consequences of these ...
RRP: $24.99
PRICE: $23.49
Delivery:
1-2 Days
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