The 2010 PM’s Literary Awards Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Fiction and Children’s fiction shortlists have been announced last week.
Fiction
The book of emmett by Deborah Forster
The lakewoman by Alan Gould
As the earth turns silver by Alison Wong
Non Fiction
The water dreamers: the remarkable history of our dry continent by Michael Cathcart
Strange places: a memoir of mental illness by Will Elliott
The Colony: a history of early Sydney by Grace Karskens
The life and death of democracy by John Keane
The blue plateau: a landscape memoir by Mark Tredinnick
The ghost at the wedding by Shirley Walker
Young Adult Fiction
The winds of heaven by Judith Clarke
Confessions of a liar, ehief and failed sex god by Bill Condon
The museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds
Beatle meets Destiny by Gabrielle Williams
Children’s Fiction
Cicada summer by Kate Constable
The terrible plop by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Andrew Joyner
Just Macbeth by Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton
Mr Chicken goes to Paris by Leigh Hobbs
Running with the horses by Alison Lester
Star jumps by Lorraine Marwood
Mannie and the long brave day by Martine Murray and illustrator Sally Rippin
Tensy Farlow and the home for Mislaid children by Jen Storer
Harry and Hopper by Margaret Wild and illustrator Freya Blackwood