2012 Fiction Shortlist |
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, ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Nonfiction Shortlist |
Worse Things Happen At Sea
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Notebooks
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$49.99 |
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After Words
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A Private Life
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Debut Fiction Shortlist |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Childrens Shortlist |
The Jewel Fish of Karnak
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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 ... |
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The Coming of the Whirlpool
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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 ... |
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