Indie Book Awards 2024
The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced.
The titles longlisted in the Fiction category are:
- Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) *
- Restless Dolly Maunder (Kate Grenville, Text)
- The Seven (Chris Hammer, A&U) *
- Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
- The Hummingbird Effect (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner) *
- Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U)
- God Forgets About the Poor (Peter Polites, Ultimo)
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Benjamin Stevenson, Michael Joseph)
- The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm)
- Stone Yard Devotional (Charlotte Wood, A&U) *
Shortlists will be announced on 17 January 2024, with the category winners and the overall Book of the Year winner to be announced at a virtual event on 25 March.
To see all the shortlists and for more information about the awards, go to – Indie Book Awards | Celebrating the best Australian writing
The books marked * have reviewed by QRC. To read the review, click on the book’s title.