Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlisted Books 2012

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Her Father’s Daughter

Alice Pung

At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she…

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A History of Books

Gerald Murnane

This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on…

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Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia

Bill Gammage

Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.

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The Shadow Girl

John Larkin

The shadow girl never imagined she’d live on the streets. After her parents disappear, life with her aunt & uncle takes a sinister turn. She tricks her way into a…

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Southern Barbarians

John Mateer

The Portuguese traders who brought Europe to Japan in the sixteenth century were known as southern barbarians. In his new collection John Mateer offers a contemporary re-charting of the Portuguese…

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The Cook

Wayne Macauley

The Cook feeds our hunger to know what goes on in the kitchen, while skewering our culture of food worship.

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All That I Am

Anna Funder,Anna Funder

An award-winning author delivers an affecting and beautifully evocative debut novel, set in 1930’s Europe and based on a true story, about a group of young German exiles who risk…

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All I Ever Wanted

Vikki Wakefield

Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go - anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won’t get off the couch, and two…

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The Shiny Guys

Doug MacLeod

Colin’s family has not been the same since his sister Briony disappeared at Pichi Richi Pass, so no one is too surprised when Colin attempts to kill himself and ends…

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Mateship With Birds

Carrie Tiffany

On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house…

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