Shortlist for Indie Awards, 2013
The Shortlist for the 2013 Australian
Independent Bookseller Awards has been announced. Voted on by the independent
booksellers of Australia, The Indie Awards have a proud tradition of picking
the best of the best of Australian writing. Panels of
expert judges (all indie booksellers and avid readers) choose winners from four
book categories – Fiction, Debut Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s.
Independent booksellers from around the country will then vote to select their
favourite book for the year. The category winners and the overall ‘Book
of the Year’ winner will be announced on Monday, 25 March
2013.
The shortlisted books for the Indie Awards 2013 are:
Fiction
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
Questions of Travel by Michelle
de Kretser
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
Non-Fiction
Lake Eyre by Paul Lockyer
QF32 by Richard de Crespigny
Sandakan by Paul Ham
The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path by Michael Leunig
Debut Fiction
The LightBetween Oceans by M L Stedman
Eleven Seasons by Paul D Carter
The Cartographer by Peter Twohig
Secrets of theTides by Hannah Richell
Secrets of theTides by Hannah Richell
Children’s
The Convent by Maureen McCarthy
The Convent by Maureen McCarthy
The 26-StoreyTreehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan
Unforgotten by Tohby Riddle
