 | The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
| MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life... | $29.95 | |
 | Prime Minister's Literary Award 2011
Non-fiction
The Hard Light of Day
Rod Moss | Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs to teach painting, he met a married couple who had set up camp in the gully beside his flat. Over the next 25 years, his friendship with Xavier and Petrina Neil and the friendships that grew from it with the families of Whitegate, an Arrernte camp on the outskirts of town... | $39.95 | |
 | Prime Minister's Literary Fiction Award 2011
Traitor
Stephen Daisley | What would make a soldier betray his country? In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital... | $23.95 | |
 | 2011 Miles Franklin Award
That Deadman Dance
Kim Scott | Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.... | $22.99 | |
 | Vogel Winner 2011
The Roving Party
Rohan Wilson | 1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants... | $27.99 | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2011
Mao's Great Famine
Frank Dikotter | Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives... | $35.00 | |
 | IMPAC LITERARY WINNER 2011
Let The Great World Spin
Colum McCann | It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son... | $22.99 | |
 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
GENERAL NON-FICTION
2011
Washington A Life
Ron Chernow | The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits... | $59.95 | |
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