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The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225 000 in prize money offered across 14 categories. The awards offer Australian established and aspiring authors the opportunity to gain recognition in the literary community as well as providing financial assistance to support the development of high quality writing.

Summertime Summertime Author: J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9781741669039

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 19721977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as ...

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The Blue Plateau The Blue Plateau Author: Mark Tredinnick
ISBN: 9780702237102

The Blue Plateau is a lyrical exploration of a classic Australian landscape - the Blue Mountains - and its people, and the story of one man's journey to find home. The book's evocative narrative follows the author's attempt to settle in this difficult terrain, yet The Blue Plateau is a book of many stories. Through the ...

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Sydney Harbour Sydney Harbour Author: Ian Hoskins
ISBN: 9781921410161

In 1925 DH Lawrence described a huge, restless, modern Sydney, whose million inhabitants seem to slip like fishes from one side of the harbour to the other. What was true then had been the case for centuries before, and decades since. Sydney Harbour has been a defining element for the people who have lived around it si ...

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Toppling Toppling Author: Sally Murphy
ISBN: 9781921529429

Dominic Fraser likes footy and soccer and cricket. He has a dog named Butch and five goldfish but no brothers or sisters. He's funny and loyal and he's my best mate.

But when John's friend Dominic becomes ill, John's world begins to topple.

From the award-winning author of Pearl Verses the World c ...

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Little White Slips Little White Slips Author: Karen Hitchcock
ISBN: 9780330424998

Whether tackling a troubled marriage using an action figure of Sigmund Freud, celebrating the apparent triumph of weight loss, or coping with the stresses of balancing a career with motherhood, the joys and frustrations of our lives are laid bare.

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Requiem for a Species Requiem for a Species Author: Clive Hamilton
ISBN: 9781742372105

Around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. And it is about the 21st-century consequences of these failures, and what we can do now.

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