Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2016 Indie Awards. You can visit your local Library to reserve a copy .
The longlisted titles in each category are:
Fiction
- A Guide to Berlin(Gail Jones, Vintage)
- Close Your Eyes(Michael Robotham, Hachette)
- Hope Farm(Peggy Frew, Scribe)
- Quicksand(Steve Toltz, Hamish Hamilton)
- The Lake House(Kate Morton, A&U)
- The Natural Way of Things(Charlotte Wood, A&U)
- The Other Side of the World(Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
- The Secret Chord(Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
- The Wonder Lover(Malcolm Knox, A&U)
- Useful(Debra Oswald, Viking)
Nonfiction
- A Mother’s Story(Rosie Batty & Bryce Corbett, HarperCollins)
- Adam Spencer’s World of Numbers(Adam Spencer, Xoum)
- Bad Behaviour(Rebecca Starford, A&U)
- Flesh Wounds(Richard Glover, ABC Books)
- Green Nomads(Bob Brown, Hardie Grant Books)
- Island Home(Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
- Keating(Kerry O’Brien, A&U)
- One Life(Kate Grenville, Text)
- Reckoning: A Memoir(Magda Szubanski, Text)
- The Anti-Cool Girl(Rosie Waterland, HarperCollins)
Debut fiction
- Anchor Point(Alice Robinson, Affirm Press)
- Fever of Animals(Miles Allinson, Scribe)
- In the Quiet(Eliza Henry-Jones, HarperCollins)
- Lost Swimmer(Ann Turner, S&S)
- Relativity(Antonia Hayes, Viking)
- Rush Oh!(Shirley Barrett, Picador)
- Salt Creek(Lucy Treloar, Picador)
- The Anchoress(Robyn Cadwallader, HarperCollins)
- The Secrets of Midwives(Sally Hepworth, Pan)
- When There’s Nowhere Else to Run(Murray Middleton, A&U)
Children’s
- Mr Huff(Anna Walker, Viking)
- My Dog Bigsy(Alison Lester, Viking)
- Olive of Groves(Katrina Nannestad & Lucia Masciullo, ABC Books)
- Paper Planes(Steve Worland, Puffin)
- Pig the Fibber(Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
- The 65-Storey Treehouse(Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
- The Bad Guys, Episode 1(Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
- The Cat with the Coloured Tail(Gillian Mears & Dinalie Dabarera, Walker Books)
- The Singing Bones(Shaun Tan, A&U)
- Thelma the Unicorn(Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
Young adult
- Cloudwish(Fiona Wood, Macmillan)
- Green Valentine(Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
- Pieces of Sky(Trinity Doyle, A&U)
- Prince of Afghanistan(Louis Nowra, A&U)
- Ranger’s Apprentice: The Early Years 1: The Tournament at Gorlan(John Flanagan, Random House)
- Red Queen: Obernewtyn Book 7(Isobelle Carmody, Viking)
- Risk(Fleur Ferris, Random House)
- Sister Heart(Sally Morgan, Fremantle Press)
- Soon(Morris Gleitzman, Viking)
- The Flywheel(Erin Gough, Hardie Grant Egmont)