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2012 Shortlist |
People Of Earth
Author: Christopher Edwards
At a time when bricolage, cut-ups & the general bullying of other people’s words about the page is flourishing in poetry, Edwards’ work stands out as an example of what such agencies can still achieve. Exacting works of (mis)quotaton, ... |
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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 appears undisturbed. |
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All That I am
Author: Anna Funder
Category: Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
"When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon..." Ruth Becker, defiant and ... |
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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 experiences as a girl, James by a ... |
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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 he should go for a gallop. |
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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 other every day on the ... |
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New and Selected Poems
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2011 WINNER |
That Deadman Dance
Author: Kim Scott
Category: Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby ... |
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2010 WINNER |
Ransom
Author: David Malouf
Category: Fiction - Modern & Contemporary
In this exquisite gem of a novel, Achilles is maddened by grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. From the walls of Troy, King Priam watches the body of his son, Hector, being dragged behind Achilles' chariot. There must be a way, he thinks, ... |
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2008 WINNER |
The Lost Dog
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Category: Fiction - General
Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote bush shack trying to finish his book on Henry James when his beloved dog goes missing. What follows is a triumph of storytelling, as The Lost Dog loops back and forth in time to take the reader on a spellbinding ... |
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2007 WINNER |
Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Category: Fiction - General
Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled ... |
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2006 WINNER |
The Patron Saint of Eels
Author: Greg Day
Category: Fiction - General
A contemporary fable, this book shows that when life seems dull and cruel, it is the power of the natural world, and our ability to imagine it, that can bring the wonder back into living. In the village of Stellanuova in southern Italy in the ... |
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2005 WINNER |
Sixty Lights
Author: Gail Jones
Category: Fiction - General
Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light ... |
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20 Days
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2004 WINNER |
Mangroves
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7-10 Days
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