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The nominees for this year's Walkley Awards were announced on Wednesday night, 14 October. The longlisted works in the best nonfiction book category were:

• Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Macmillan)
• To The Bitter End: The Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd (Peter Hartcher, A&U)
• Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History (Jenny Hocking, Miegunyah Press)
• The Birth Wars (Mary-Rose MacColl, UQP)
• The Henson Case (David Marr, Text)
• Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to the Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World (Iain McCalman, Viking)
• The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad (Sally Neighbour, MUP)
• Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed (Matt Peacock, ABC Books)
• Firepower: The Most Spectacular Fraud in Australian History (Gerard Ryle, A&U)
• The Killing of Caroline Byrne: A Journey to Justice (Robert Wainwright, A&U).

A shortlist of three finalists will be announced on Monday 9 November, 2009. For more information see the awards website here.

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