WA Premier's Book Awards Winners 2011

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A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock

Jim Davidson

W.K. Hancock was a major historian in four or five fields. In addition, Hancock was a founder of the Australian National University, while his Australia (1930) remains one of the…

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Gwen in Purgatory

Tommy Murphy

Gwen is 90. She woke up this morning to discover that purgatory is sitting alone in a new house in a new subdivision on the edge of town. But then…

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Vite Italiane: Italian Lives in Western Australia

Susanna Iuliano

Documents the migration flow of Italian immigrants from the late 1800s to the present day.

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Toppling

Sally Murphy (Author)

A moving and triumphant illustrated verse novel about childhood illness and support for friends. Ages 8-12.

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Anonymity Jones

James Roy

Once there lived a girl called Anonymity Jones. Anonymity’s life is falling apart. Her father has left to have a mid-life crisis, her mother’s new boyfriend is a definite worry…

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Happy as Larry

Scot Gardner

The not-so-ordinary life of a boy named Larry, set against the great events of the world.

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Utopian Man

Lisa Lang

1880s. Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the Cole’s Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him…

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That Deadman Dance

Kim Scott

In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel’s hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby…

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