The shortlists for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. You can reserve your copy at City of Parramatta Library.
The shortlisted titles in each category are:
Fiction
- The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette)
- The Last Days of Ava Langdon (Mark O’Flynn, UQP)
- Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.)
- Waiting (Philip Salom, Puncher & Wattmann)
- Extinctions (Josephine Wilson, UWAP)
Poetry
- Painting Red Orchids (Eileen Chong, Pitt Street Poetry)
- Year of the Wasp (Joel Deane, Hunter)
- Content (Liam Ferney, Hunter)
- Fragements (Antigone Kefala, Giramondo)
- Headwaters (Anthony Lawrence, Pitt Street Poetry)
Australian history
- A Passion for Exploring New Countries: Matthew Flinders and George Bass (Josephine Bastian, Australian Scholarly Publishing)
- Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent (Neil McDonald, NewSouth)
- Evatt: A Life (John Murphy, NewSouth)
- Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story (Elizabeth Tynan, NewSouth)
- A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle after the Walk-off (Charlie Ward, Monash University Publishing)
Nonfiction
- Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow (Suzanne Falkiner, UWAP)
- The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft (Tom Griffiths, Black Inc.)
- Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead (Thornton McCamish, Black Inc.)
- Quicksilver (Nicolas Rothwell, Text)
- The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (Sebastian Smee, Text)
Children’s fiction
- Home in the Rain (Bob Graham, Walker Books)
- Blue Sky, Yellow Kite (Janet A Holmes, illus by Jonathan Bentley, Little Hare)
- My Brother (Dee Huxley, illus by Oliver Huxley, Working Title Press)
- Figgy and the President (Tamsin Janu, Scholastic)
- Dragonfly Song (Wendy Orr, A&U)
Young adult fiction
- Words in Deep Blue (Cath Crowley, Pan Macmillan)
- The Bone Sparrow (Zana Frailon, Hachette)
- The Stars at Oktober Bend (Glenda Millard, A&U)
- Forgetting Foster (Dianne Touchell, A&U)
- One Would Think the Deep (Claire Zorn, UQP).