2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlist

For more information about the awards, click here.

Fiction

• Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) on my TBR
• In Certain Circles (Elizabeth Harrower, Text) See my review and a Sensational Snippet
• Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton)
• The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage) See my review and a Sensational Snippet
• To Name Those Lost (Rohan Wilson, A&U) See my review

Poetry

• Devadatta’s Poems (Judith Beveridge, Giramondo), see Tony’s review at Messenger’s Booker
• Exhibits of the Sun (Stephen Edgar, Black Pepper), see Tony’s review at Messenger’s Booker
• Poems 1957-2013 (Geoffrey Lehmann, UWA Publishing)
• Earth Hour (David Malouf, UQP), see Tony’s review at Messenger’s Booker
• Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems (Alex Skovron, Puncher & Wattmann), see Tony’s review at Messenger’s Booker

Nonfiction

• John Olsen: An Artist’s Life (Darleen Bungey, HarperCollins)
• Private Bill (Barrie Cassidy, MUP)
• This House of Grief (Helen Garner, Text)
• Encountering the Pacific: In the Age of Enlightenment (John Gascoigne, Cambridge University Press)
• Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall (Michael Wilding, Australian Scholarly Publishing)

Australian history

• The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (Alan Atkinson, NewSouth)
• Descent into Hell (Peter Brune, A&U)
• Charles Bean (Ross Coulthart, HarperCollins)
• Menzies at War (Anne Henderson, NewSouth)
• The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO Vol 1 (David Horner, A&U)

Young adult fiction

• Are You Seeing Me? (Darren Groth, Woolshed Press)
• The Astrologer’s Daughter (Rebecca Lim, Text)
• Tigers on the Beach (Doug MacLeod, Penguin)
• The Minnow (Diana Sweeney, Text)
• The Protected (Claire Zorn, UQP)

Children’s fiction

• Two Wolves (Tristan Bancks, Random House)
• My Dad is a Bear (Nicola Connelly, illus by Annie White, New Frontier)
• My Two Blankets (Irena Kobald, illus by Freya Blackwood, Little Hare)
• One Minute’s Silence (David Metzenthen, illus by Michael Camilleri, A&U)
• Withering-by-Sea (Judith Rossell, ABC Books).