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Indie Book Award

The winner of this annual award, chosen by Australia's independent booksellers, is selected from a shortlist of winners in four categories - Fiction, Debut Fiction, Nonfiction and Childrens. The winning author of the Indie Book of the Year receives a prize of $15,000.


2012  Fiction Shortlist
Caleb's Crossing Caleb's Crossing
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Category:Fiction - General

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 luminous tale of passion and belief, ...
RRP: $32.99
PRICE: $31.01
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10-15 Days

The Street Sweeper The Street Sweeper
Author: Elliot Perlman

How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each ...
RRP: $32.95
PRICE: $30.97
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Foal's Bread Foal's Bread
Author: Gillian Mears

"The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then ...
RRP: $32.99
PRICE: $31.01
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Five Bells Five Bells
Author: Gail Jones

An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller.

On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists ...
RRP: $29.95
PRICE: $28.15
Delivery:
1-2 Days

Five Bells
Author: Gail Jones

On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by memories of the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her experienc ...
RRP: $19.95
PRICE: $18.75
Delivery:
7-10 Days

 Nonfiction Shortlist
Worse Things Happen At Sea Worse Things Happen At Sea
Author: William McInnes & Sarah Watt
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Family & Relationships - General

In William's first book A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA will do the same for family life in 2000s; written in a way that ...
RRP: $35.00
PRICE: $32.90
Delivery:
1-2 Days

Notebooks Notebooks
Author: Betty Churcher
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Artists
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Forms Painting
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Treatments & Subjects General

In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velzquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Czanne. A trained artist, Betty's sk ...
RRP: $49.99
PRICE: $46.99
Delivery:
1-2 Days

After Words After Words
Author: Paul Keating
Category:Language, Literature & ELT - Literature, Criticism & Literary Studies General
Category:Language, Literature & ELT - Literature, Criticism & Literary Studies Works - Anthologies - Non-poetry
Category:Language, Literature & ELT - Literature, Criticism & Literary Studies Poetry & Drama
Category:Politics & Government - General

A handsome collectable hardback publication for the curious of mind and the legion of Keating fans who love the way the man thinks and speaks. There are thirteen years of speeches in here written and delivered since he l ...
RRP: $59.99
PRICE: $56.39
Delivery:
1-2 Days

A Private Life A Private Life
Author: Michael Kirby
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General
Category:Law - Profession Ethics, Profession & Professional Responsibility

Michael Kirby is one of Australia's most admired public figures. At a time of spin and obfuscation, he speaks out passionately and straightforwardly on the issues that are important to him. Even those who disagree with h ...
RRP: $46.95
PRICE: $44.13
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 Debut Fiction Shortlist
Past the Shallows Past the Shallows
Author: Favel Parrett
Category:Fiction - General

Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. With their mum dead, they are left to look after themselves. When Miles isn't helping out on the boat they explore the co ...
RRP: $26.99
PRICE: $25.37
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1-2 Days

All That I Am All That I Am
Author: Anna Funder
Category:Fiction - General

Two years after Hitler came to power in Germany, the bodies of Dora and her friend Mathilde, prominent anti-Hitler activists in exile, lie poisoned in a flat in Bloomsbury. The room is locked from the inside; the place a ...
RRP: $29.95
PRICE: $28.15
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The Roving Party The Roving Party
Author: Rohan Wilson
Category:Fiction - General

1829, TasmaniaJohn Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood ...
RRP: $27.99
PRICE: $26.31
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7-10 Days

Watercolours Watercolours
Author: Adrienne Ferreira

Eleven-year-old Novi just wants to blend in - not easy when you're named after a silkworm and have the most eccentric family in town. A descendent of the first Italian silk growers in northern New South Wales, he is an o ...
RRP: $29.99
PRICE: $28.19
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7-10 Days

 Childrens Shortlist
The Jewel Fish of Karnak The Jewel Fish of Karnak
Author: Graeme Base
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 5-6

Far, far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the cat Pharaoh decides to give the friends one last chance. She ...
RRP: $29.95
PRICE: $28.15
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The Little Refugee The Little Refugee
Author: Anh Do & Suzanne Do
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. It was a dangerous journey, with murderous pirates and terrifyin ...
RRP: $24.99
PRICE: $23.49
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1-2 Days

The Coming of the Whirlpool The Coming of the Whirlpool
Author: Andrew McGahan
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Young Dow Amber is no sailor. But driven by a strange sea-longing he ventures from the high country of New Island all the way down to a grim fishing village on the shores of the bay known as the Claw. There he finds a cu ...
RRP: $22.99
PRICE: $21.61
Delivery:
7-10 Days

The 13-Storey Treehouse The 13-Storey Treehouse
Author: Andy Griffiths
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games ...
RRP: $9.99
PRICE: $9.39
Delivery:
1-2 Days

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