Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards were established in 2008 to celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and these author's contribution to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.
A prize of $80,000 is awarded to the winner in each of the six categories, and $5000 is presented to each author who is shortlisted.
Shop the nominees in each category below.
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard
$22.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In the new novel by the award-winning author of "A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, " beautiful, lyrical prose, told in two voices, lifts up a poignant story of two traumatized teens who find each other in a small riverside town.
Their Brilliant Careers: The Lives of Sixteen Remarkable Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source of th ...Show more
This is My Song by Richard Yaxley
$18.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
This is my blood, this is my song. In the early 1940s in Czechoslovakia, Rafael Ullmann and his family are sent to Terezin, the so-called model ghetto for Jewish artists. In the 1970s in Canada, Annie Ullmann lives a predictable, lonely life on a prairie with her reclusive father and deaf-dumb mother. T ...Show more
Transparencies by xxx (Other)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
On slender toes Down by the water's edge Two egrets effortlessly hold their pose In sedge. They hold their pose. This show, With all chinoiserie's Appeal, must be illusory. And so It is. Stephen Edgar's nimble-footed new collection Transparencies extends his exploration of the world's visual aspect, bot ...Show more
Unbreakable by Jessica Halloran; Jelena Dokic
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee, twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world No. 4. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell. Jelena was a prodigious talent, heralded as Australia's greatest tennis ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$59.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more
Waiting by Philip Salom
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Big is a hefty cross-dresser and Little is little. Both are long used to the routines of boarding house life in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, but Little, with the prospect of an inheritance, is worrying Big by indulging in dreams of home ownership. Little's cousin, Angus, is a solitary man who designs ...Show more
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
$0.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time. . . . I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places A beautiful love story for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola Yoon: two teens find their ...Show more
Year of the Wasp by Joel Deane
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Year Of the Wasp finds its origins in shattering personal experience and then rises from this personal focus to confront the realities of politics, culture, and language in contemporary Australia. This is a deeply engaged collection, much of the time it reads like the poet is writing for his life in a v ...Show more