2012 SCHEDULE
JANUARY – PM’s PRIZE
Traitor – Stephen Daisley – (HELEN OZ)
FEBRUARY – ANZ CLASSIC
A Soldier’s Tale – M.K.Joseph -(TANIA)
MARCH – ANZ FICTION
All That I am - Anna Funder – (LISA)
APRIL – ANZ FICTION
Sarah Thornhill – Kate Grenville – (MARGARET)
MAY – 2011 COMM. WRITERS’ PRIZE
The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna – (JENNY)
JUNE – ANZ NON-FICTION
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival – Hana Schofield & Atka Reid – (SALLY R.)
JULY – 2011 NZ POST BK AWARD
The Hut Builder – Laurence Fearnley – (KATE)
AUGUST – ANZ FICTION
The Street Sweeper – Eliot Perlman – (NARELLE)
SEPTEMBER – INTERNATIONAL FICTION
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes – (LESLEIGH)
OCTOBER – ANZ FICTION
Autumn Laing – Alex Miller – (LURLINE)
NOVEMBER – 2012 MILES FRANKLIN WINNER
(to be announced May, 2012) – (CAROL)
DECEMBER – ANZ LIGHT FICTION
There Should be More Dancing – Rosalie Ham – (CHRIS)
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Hello! I love this blog – I wonder if you can help with is query, would be very grateful if you have any ideas?Hello – I am a reader from the UK and would be grateful if you have any idea of a book which I lost a couple of years ago, and am keen to remember the title of. It was published in Australia in 2005 at the latest, it was narrated by a child narrator (although an adult novel) in a large and dysfunctional family. The cover was striking – a photo trees and a river against a backdrop of a blue sky. It was definitely written by an Australian author. The family were all known by unusal, one-word names, and I think there was something about a social worker in it. Would be really grateful for any ideas re the title / author.
Thanks loads!!
By: uk reader on January 29, 2012
at 11:03 am
Hello, UK Reader, and welcome!
I’m trawling through my reading journal to see if your description triggers a memory, but we need to bear in mind that if it was published in the UK it may have had a different cover. What a pity I haven’t tagged my posts by year of publication!
Can any of my Aussie readers help with this query?
By: Lisa Hill on January 29, 2012
at 11:16 am
Could it have been Careless, by Deborah Robertson? That’s about a little girl called Pearl and it’s told from her POV though not in first person. Her mother has so many issues that Pearl takes on responsibility for her little brother Riley. There’s a widow called Sonia learning to live alone without her husband, and an opportunistic artist called Adam Logan.
By: Lisa Hill on January 29, 2012
at 11:24 am
Hi – I had a look at that book, which looks a great read! Thanks for the quick response. I should have said that I brought this book in a remainder bookshop in Melbourne in late 2005 (my last trip over) so I think it’s ruled out by the date! I think it was a more social realist novel, written from the perspective of a older child, witnessing the dismantlng of their family, rather that the magic realism in the Robertson book. The cover was the Australian edition if that helps. Any thoughts welcome…..what an enjoyable blog anyway.
By: uk reader on January 29, 2012
at 11:05 pm
I will ask the erudite ladies in my bookgroup and my FaceBook friends if they can work out what it is…
By: Lisa Hill on January 29, 2012
at 11:15 pm
One reader suggested Cloudstreet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudstreet, mainly because of the odd names, I think.
By: Lisa Hill on January 30, 2012
at 12:26 am