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Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The yield [Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 - Prize For Fiction]
Theyield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper.
Song spirals : sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines [Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 - Prize For Non-Fiction]
'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey ofsongspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.'
Sea people : in search of the ancient navigators of the Pacific [Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 - Prize For Non-Fiction]
For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there.
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The lost Arabs [Paperback] [Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 - Prize For Poetry]
Rising talent Omar Sakr's vibrant new poetry collection pulses with raw power as it interrogates the topical issues of family, identity and nation. Visceral and energetic, Omar Sakr's poetry confronts notions of identity and belonging head-on.
Meeting the Waylo : Aboriginal encounters in the archipelago [Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020 - Prize For Australian History]
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
The animals in that country [Victorian Premiers Literary Award - Prize for Fiction - 2021 Winner]
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly.
Body count : how climate change is killing us [Victorian Premiers Literary Award - Prize for Non Fiction - 2021 Winner]
When the country caught fire, people realised what the government has not: that climate change is killing us. But climate deaths didn't start in 2019. Medical officers have been warning of a health emergency as temperatures rise for years, and for at least a decade Australians have been dying fro...
Metal fish, falling snow [Victorian Premiers Literary Award - Prize for Young Adult Writing - 2021 Winner]
Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won't make her stand out, a place where she might feel she belongs. But when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very diffe...
Tell me why : the story of my life and my music [Victorian Premiers Literary Award - Prize for Indigenous Writing - 2021 Winner]
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. No one has lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.
Witness : an investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice [Victorian Premiers Literary Award - Prize for People's Choice - 2021 Winner]
Dominicana [Women's Prize For Fiction - Shortlist 2020]
Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes.
Girl, woman, other [Women's Prize For Fiction - Shortlist 2020]
Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980.
The mirror & the light [Women's Prize For Fiction - Shortlist 2020]
If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.
Hamnet [Women's Prize For Fiction - Winner 2020]
Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley Street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven.
Weather : a novel [Women's Prize For Fiction - Shortlist 2020]
"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother.
See what you made me do : power, control and domestic abuse [Stella Prize Winner 2020]
Women are abused or killed by their partners at astonishing rates- in Australia, almost 17 per cent of women over the age of fifteen - one in six - have been abused by an intimate partner.
A treacherous country [Vogel Prize Winner 2020]
There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new.
The white girl [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
This novel explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love. Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town.
Room for a stranger [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might be good to have some company after all.
Islands [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
"There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Some of us wailed and shouted; some of us barely made a sound.
No one [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
In the ghost hours of a Monday morning a man feels a dull thud against the side of his car near the entrance to Redfern Station. He doesn't stop immediately.
Act of grace [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
Iraqi aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Australia, decades later, Gerry is in fear of his tyrannical father, Toohey, who has returned from the Iraq War bearing the physical and psychological scars ...
A season on Earth [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
In 1976 William Heinemann published Gerald Murnane’s second novel, A Lifetime on Clouds. In the book’s originally published two parts, the protagonist Adrian Sherd, a student at a Catholic high school in Melbourne, escapes his dreary, outer-suburban life through a set of imagined erotic adventures.
The returns : a novel [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
Elizabeth posts a 'room for rent' notice in Trevor's bookshop and is caught off-guard when Trevor answers the ad himself. She expected a young student not a middle-aged bookseller whose marriage has fallen apart.
Exploded view [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
A dangerous man moves in with a mother and her two adolescent children. The man runs an unlicensed mechanic's workshop at the back of their property. The girl resists the man with silence, and finally with sabotage.
The yield [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Winner]
Theyield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper.
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The weekend [Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 - Longlist]
People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing each other better than their own siblings, Sylvie's death had opened up strange caverns of distance between them.
Ghost bird [Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2020 - Winner]
An intriguing and gripping Young Adult novel by the winner of the David Unaipon award. 'Remember daughter, the world is a lot bigger than anyone knows. There are things that science may never explain. Maybe some things that shouldn't be explained.'
The nickel boys [Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 - Winner]
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enrol in the local black college.
Sontag : her life and work [Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 - Winner]
"Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic andher role in the history of American intellectualism" --
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Undying: A Meditation On Modern Illness [Pulitzer Prize for Non Fiction 2020 - Co-Winner]
Books
The end of the myth : from the frontier to the border wall in the mind of America [Pulitzer Prize for Non Fiction 2020 - Co-Winner]
"Ever since this nation's founding, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, the frontier made possible the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation.
The whole fish cookbook : new ways to cook, eat and think [ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year 2020 - Winner]
We all want to eat more fish, but who wants to bother spending the time, effort and money cooking that same old salmon fillet on repeat when you could be trying something new and utterly delicious?
Meat market [YA Book Prize (UK) 2020 - Winner]
Lot : stories [Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 - Winner]
The narrow land [Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020 - Winner]
1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their own devices, the boys meet a couple - the artists Jo and Edward Hopper - and an unlikely friendship is forged.
Axiomatic [Windham Campbell for Non Fiction 2020 - Winner]
This boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling, and meditation takes as its starting point five axioms.
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The New Wilderness [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
Helen Phillips meets Miranda July in this daring and imaginative debut novel that explores a moving mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and overpopulation, a suspenseful second book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature.
This mournable body [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
"Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher.
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Burnt Sugar [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
This is a love story and it is a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds two women together, making and unmaking them endlessly.
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Who They Was [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
Who They Was is an electrifying autobiographical British novel: a debut that truly breaks new ground and shines a light on lives that run on parallel, but wildly different tracks.
Apeirogon : a novel [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank.
The shadow king : a novel [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade.
Such a fun age [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand.
Real life [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree.
Redhead by the side of the road [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof...
Shuggie Bain [Booker Prize 2020 - Winner]
Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.
Love and other thought experiments [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
"Rachel and Eliza, a married couple planning to have a baby together with their friends Hal and Greg. The experience brings the women even closer together until one night Rachel wakes in great distress, believing that an ant has crawled into her eye - and Eliza doesn't believe her.
How much of these hills is gold [Booker Prize 2020 - Longlist]
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home. Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone.
The discomfort of evening [International Booker Prize 2020 - Winner]
"Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea to God; he never returns.
A memory called Empire [Hugo Award for Science Fiction 2020 - Winner]
During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station has died.
Caine Prize for African Writing
Nudibranch [Caine Prize for African Writing 2020 - Winner]
NUDIBRANCH is Irenosen Okojie's second collection of short stories, a follow up to SPEAK GIGANTULAR. The collection focuses on offbeat characters caught up in extraordinary situations.
New South Wales Premier's History Award
Bedlam at Botany Bay [NSW Premier's History Award for Australian History 2020 - Winner]
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges...
Queensland Book of The Year - People's Choice Award
A lifetime of impossible days [Queensland Book of The Year People's Choice 2020 - Winner]
An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable . . . Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 . . . 33 . . . and 93.
Lucky ticket [QLD literary Award - Steele Rudd Award 2020 - Winner]
Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a luckyticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you'll never need to eat again.
Olive Cotton : a life in photography [QLD literary Award for Non Fiction Award 2020 - Winner]
Biography of leading Australian modernist photographer OliveCotton, covering her life through childhood, early marriage to fellow photographer Max Dupain and her successful commercial work of the 1930s to her second marriage and life in rural NSW, bringing up children and continuing to work ...
Heide [QLD literary Award - Judith Wright Calanthe Award 2020 - Winner]
The third volume in Pi O.'s epic trilogy, after 24 Hours and Fitzroy: The Biography, and the first to be published by a trade publisher for national distribution. Heide is an epic poem about history, painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia...
Stone sky gold mountain [QLD literary Award for Fiction Award 2020 - Winner]
"Tragic family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in North Queensland. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Ducks, Newburyport [James Tait Black Prize For Fiction Award 2020 - Winner]
"Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of 'happy couples'...
Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing
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Diary of a Young Naturalist [hardback] [Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing Award 2020 - Winner]
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing.
Tiberius with a telephone : the life and stories of William McMahon [National Biography Award 2020 - Winner]
Paper emperors : the rise of Australia's newspaper empires [Colin Roderick Award 2020 - Winner]
A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, this book explains how Australia's media system came to be dominated by a handful ofempires and powerful family dynasties. Many are household names, even now: Murdoch, Fairfax, Symes, Packer.
The trespassers [Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel 2020 - Winner]
A literary murder mystery with a speculative edge, this novel explores the limits of courage, the consequences of greed, and the way unlikely strangers can become people we hold dear.
Banking bad [Davitt Award for Best Non Fiction Crime Novel 2020 - Winner]
In Banking Bad, Adele Ferguson traces the origins of the banking scandal to the early 1990s, when buckets of money began pouring into compulsory superannuation funds, set up by Labor Treasurer Paul Keating.
The Old Drift [Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction 2020 - Winner]
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called TheOldDrift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis.
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The wife and the widow [Paperback] [Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction 2020 - Winner]
"Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband's secret life; and Abby, an island local whose ...
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Bowraville [Paperback] [Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2020 - Winner]
A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but nobody was convicted.
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Present tense [Paperback] [Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction 2020 - Winner]
Veteran cop Schalk Lourens wants a quiet life. Like the rest of the country, he's trying to put the past behind him. But the past has a way of hanging on, and when Schalk's old boss, retired police captain Piet Pieterse is murdered, Schalk must confront old demons.
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The Chain [Paperback] [Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2020 - Winner]
The morning starts like any other. Rachel Klein drops her daughter, Kylie, at the bus stop and heads into her day. But then a phone call changes everything. A woman has Kylie bound and gagged in her back seat, and the only way Rachel will ever see her again is if she pays a ransom...
Good girl bad girl [CWA Gold Dagger 2020 - Winner]
A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks, she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden.
November Road [CWA Historical Dagger 2020 - Winner]
Frank Guidry's luck has finally run out?A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up dead.
Furious hours : murder, fraud and the last trial of Harper Lee [CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2020 - Winner]
The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, andthetrial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel - a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined.
The man on the street [CWA Crime Dagger for New Author 2020 - Winner]
A killer is onthe streets of Newcastle. So is theman who will catch them. As Newcastle cleans up its streets for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, homeless veteran Jimmy Mullen witnesses a crime committed in the dead of night.
The godmother [CWA Crime Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation 2020 - Winner]
Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the nursing home fees for her ageing mother.
Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Smart ovens for lonely people [Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2020 - Winner]
In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincidences in her life. Four girls gather to celebrate their underwear in 'Happy Smiling Underwear Girls Party', a hila...
The killing streets [Danger Prize for Crime Fiction 2020 - Winner]
Auē [Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel 2020 - Winner]
"Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his ...
The Nancys [Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Crime Novel 2020 - Winner]
The sunken land begins to rise again [Goldsmiths Prize 2020 - Winner]
Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw ...
How to pronounce knife : stories [Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020 - Winner]
"In her stunning debut, SouvankhamThammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong
Love after love [Costa Award for First Novel 2020 - Winner]
After Betty Ramdin's abusive husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr Chetan, to move in with her and her son Solo as their lodger. Over time these three form an unconventional family, loving and depending on one another. Then on a fateful night Solo overhears Betty confiding in Mr Chetan and ...
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Mermaid Of Black Conch: A Love Story [paperback] [Costa Award for Best Novel 2020 - Winner]
St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a catch but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to...
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