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.
Pig the Star by Aaron Blabey
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: Pig the Pug
The world's most self-centered pug wants to be the star of a fun photo shoot. He pushes his good friend, Trevor, out of the way and hogs all of the costumes. He is going to be the star! But when the photographer starts to favor Trevor, Pig must try everything to steal back the show! Full color.
Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more
Scrublands (#1 Martin Scarsden) by Chris Hammer
$36.99 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killin ...Show more
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
$39.99 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
'He was still bleeding. I yelled, "Someone's killed Father." I breathed in kerosene air, licked the thickness from my teeth. The clock on the mantel ticked ticked. I looked at Father, the way hands clutched to thighs, the way the little gold ring on his pinky finger sat like a sun. I gave him that ring ...Show more
Shell by Kristina Olsson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A luminous look at a city at a time of change, a time when the building of the Sydney Opera House was a reach for greatness." --The New York Times In this spellbinding and poignant historical novel--perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers--a Swedish glassmaker and a fierce ...Show more
Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell, Fiona Wood
$19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult
3 award-winning authors, 1 compelling book. ADY - not the confident A-Lister she appears to be. KATE - brainy boarder taking risks to pursue the music she loves. CLEM - disenchanted swim-star losing her heart to the wrong boy. All are targeted by PSST, a toxic website that deals in gossip and lies. St ...Show more
Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Children's | Reading Level: 7 Kids picture
Secondhand. A stunning companion to Tales from Outer Suburbia, this collection of illustrated short stories is sure to delight Shaun Tan fans of all ages. Where can we live if not in each other's shadow?World-renowned artist Shaun Tan applies his unique imagination to a reflection on the nature of huma ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
The Last Man in Europe: A Novel by Dennis Glover
$37.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction | Reading Level: very good
April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four.Forty-three years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy--the culmination of a ...Show more
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shad ...Show more
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
$34.99 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A little girl went missing years ago. That child is you. A dark and gripping debut psychological thriller that won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, previously won by THE DRY and THE ROSIE PROJECT. 'Read page one, and you won't stop. Guaranteed' Jeffery DeaverA child was stolen twenty years a ...Show more