Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated by the Victorian Government in 1985 to honour literary achievement by Australian Writers. Winners were originally chosen in the five categories of Fiction, Non-fiction, Drama, Poetry and Young Adult, and since 2016 now include awards for an Unpublished Manuscript and Indigenous Writing. Each winner receives $25,000 and go on to contest the Victorian Prize for Literature.
A New England Affair - Eliot Quartet series #3 by Steven Carroll
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
The latest, immensely moving novel of lost love and missed moments from Steven Carroll, one of Australia's greatest writers, multi-award winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award 'Why do some nights feel as though they were always waiting ...Show more
Argosy by Bella Li
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, Bella Li's debut full-length collection Argosy is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and orig ...Show more
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier''s Literary Awards ''Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.'' Christos ...Show more
Because of You by Pip Harry
$26.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
'Books can save anyone. If they?re the right ones.?Tiny is an eighteen-year-old girl living on the streets in Sydney, running from her small-town past. She finds short-term accommodation at Hope Lane - a shelter for the homeless - where she meets Nola, a high school student on volunteer placement.Both g ...Show more
For a Girl: A True Story of Secrets, Motherhood and Hope by Mary-Rose MacColl
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface one day and demand an airing. Emerging from an unconventional, boisterously happy childhood, Mary-Rose Ma ...Show more
I Love Poetry by Michael Farrell
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
In I Love Poetry Michael Farrell continues to affirm poetry as a mode of thinking. His poems aspire to both memorability and meaning, and to invoke new Australian realities - 'the rhyme's a moral that becomes a fence; a fallen-down fence is a joy forever.' The tone is playful and ironic, more under the ...Show more
Ida by Alison Evans
$19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult
How do people decide on a path, and find the drive to pursue what they want? Ida struggles more than other twentysomethings to work this out. She can shift between parallel universes, allowing her to follow alternative paths.One day Ida sees a shadowy, see-through doppelganger of herself on the train. S ...Show more
In The Dark Spaces by Cally Black
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult
The latest winner of the Ampersand Prize is a genre-smashing hostage drama about 14-year-old Tamara, who's faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her kidnappers. Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living on a star freighter in deep space, and her kidnappers are terrifying Cr ...Show more
No More Boats [Miles Franklin 2018 Shortlist] by Felicity Castagna
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"New novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The subject is very topical. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying th ...Show more
No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences with 'Ol' Man River' and Othello, as his pa ...Show more
Plane Tree Drive by Lynette Washington
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Jennifer lives shrouded in secrets on Plane Tree Drive, stuck in regret that is destroying her marriage. Alice watches on as her husband finally gives up his addictions - and his family in the process. Faraj, haunted by memories from Afghanistan, slips into homelessness yet again. Meanwhile, Maurice re ...Show more