SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2021 INDIE BOOK AWARDS Celebrating the best Australian writing  Australian independent booksellers are thrilled to announce their Shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2021, their favourite Australian books published in 2020. Two of the category shortlists for the Indie Book Awards 2021 are:  FICTION All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton

Established in 2008, the Indie Book Awards celebrate the best Australian writing; and who better to nominate and judge the best-of-the-best than indie booksellers! What makes indie booksellers uniquely placed to judge and recommend the best Aussie books of the past year, is their incredible passion and knowledge, their contribution to the cultural diversity of

The estate of Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss and the Australian University Heads of English are proud to announce the winner of the 2020 Voss Literary Prize: Tara June Winch, The Yield (Penguin Random House Australia)

Barbara Jefferis was a feminist, a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors, its first woman President and, in the words of Thomas Keneally, “a rare being amongst authors, being both a fine writer but also organisationally gifted. She was a professional and internationally published writer long before most of us dreamed of such

The Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for his first novel, Shuggie Bain, a story based on his own life that follows a boy growing up in poverty in 1980s Glasgow with a mother who is battling addiction. Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College