Here we are on the eve of the 2011 Miles Franklin Award presentation – and we have yet another announcement – the shortlists for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award.
Fiction
- The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
- Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor, see my review
- That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott, see my review
- Traitor by Stephen Daisley
- Utopian Man by Lisa Lang (on my TBR)
- The English Class by Ouyang Yu, see my review
Non Fiction
- A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock by Jim Davidson
- Breaking News by Ben Hills
- Into The Woods: The Battle For Tasmania’s Forests by Anna Krien (See Sally’s review)
- Macquarie by Harry Dillon and Peter Butler
- Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker
- The Quest For Justice by Ken Crispin
Poetry
- Burning Bright by Caroline Caddy
- Colombine, New & Selected Poems by Jennifer Harrison
- Fire Diary by Mark Tredinnick
- Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
- Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden
- Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett by Kate Lilley (Ed)
All links are to Readings Bookstore because I found out about the shortlist via a Tweet from them.
Im only familiar with a few of those – I have to admit that I didn’t like Indelible Ink much at all. I have heard good things about Utopian man though.
By: Becky (Page Turners) on June 21, 2011
at 8:53 pm
Yes, that’s one I must read, and eventually catch up with the others that I haven’t read too,
By: Lisa Hill on June 21, 2011
at 9:33 pm