Indie Book Awards
Operated by Leading Edge Books, the Indie Book Awards were established in 2008. The awards are presented annually to Australian writers and the nominees are chosen by Australian Independent Booksellers who help to foster Australian literature and the love of reading.
Shop the nominees in each category below.
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg
$18.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Rob has a huge crush on the new girl at school. But Rob is painfully shy and suffers severe panic attacks. How is her heart to be won? Another wonderful and heart-warming comedy drama from the award-winning author of My Life as an Alphabet. Good evening, Rob. Your first challenge follows. These challeng ...Show more
All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Reading Level: very good
Smart is not just ticks and crosses, smart is building boats from boxes. Painting patterns, wheeling wagons,being mermaids, riding dragons … From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities th ...Show more
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult
From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through an elite private school, and a brilliant feminist hoax that could change - or ruin - everything. Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girl ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day - Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens after the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories--and a terrifying brush with her own mortality--sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-chang ...Show more
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
$37.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
‘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 Tsiolkas Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Ch ...Show more
Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian
$24.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
Since Ava lost Kelly, things haven''t been going so well. Even before she gets thrown out of school for shouting at the principal, there''s the simmering rage and all the weird destructive choices. The only thing going right for Ava is her job at Magic Kebab. Which is where she meets Gideon. Skinny, shy ...Show more
Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Janelle McCulloch
$36.16 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies' college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwin ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him." The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and fi ...Show more
Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina; Ezekiel Kwaymullina
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult
An extraordinary thriller, told from the perspective of two Aboriginal protagonists, which weaves together themes of grief, colonial history, violence, love and family. Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad, a detective, is the only one who can see and hear her, and he's drowni ...Show more
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Chris Womersley's haunting novel City of Crows will take you into a nightmare labyrinth where superstition rules and where it seems the Devil calls the tune." Weekend Australian France, 1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child from an outbreak of plague, the widow Charlotte Picot fl ...Show more