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2009 Shortlist |
Her Father's Daughter
Author: John Clanchy
From the master storyteller and award-winning author John Clanchy comes a collection of five new tales of contemporary families, exploring the fascinating, and often fraught, relations between fathers and daughters. An h ... |
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The Spare Room
Author: Helen Garner
Category: Fiction - General
An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis. Isn't that supposed to align the sleeper with the plan ... |
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House of Exile
Author: Evelyn Juers
Category: Biography & Autobiography - General
In 1933 the author and activist Heinrich Mann and his partner Nelly Kroeger fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south of France and later, in great despair, in Los Angeles, where Nelly committed suicide in 194 ... |
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Divine Comedy
Author: John Kinsella
John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books: Purgatorio: up close, Paradiso: rupture, and Inferno: leisure centre. The poet-na ... |
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The Slap
Author: Christos Tsiolkas
Category: Fiction - General
The Slap is a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class from the controversial cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe. |
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2008 WINNER |
The Lost Dog
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent beyond. |
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