ABIA 2015 shortlists announced
13 April 2015 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
General fiction book of the year
- Laurinda (Alice Pung, Black Inc.)
- Lost & Found (Brooke Davis, Hachette)
- Life or Death (Michael Robotham, Hachette)
- Big Little Lies (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)
- The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion, Text)
Literary fiction book of the year
- Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
- When the Night Comes (Favel Parrett, Hachette)
- The Golden Age (Joan London, Vintage)
- Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton)
- Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton)
General nonfiction book of the year
- The Bush (Don Watson, Hamish Hamilton)
- The Wife Drought (Annabel Crabb, Ebury)
- Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World (Tim Low, Viking)
- Gallipoli (Peter Fitzsimons, William Heinemann)
- This House of Grief (Helen Garner, Text)
Biography of the year
- Never, Um, Ever Ending Story (Melly Meldrum, A&U)
- Love Your Sister (Connie Johnson & Samuel Johnson, Hachette)
- Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action (Bob Brown, Hardie Grant)
- A Bone of Fact (David Walsh, Macmillan)
- My Story (Julia Gillard, Vintage)
Older children (8 to 14 years)
- Clariel (Garth Nix, A&U)
- Withering-By-Sea (Judith Rossell, HarperCollins)
- Alice-Miranda in Japan (Jacqueline Harvey, Random House)
- Brotherband 5: Scorpion Mountain (John Flanagan, Puffin)
- Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective (R A Spratt, Random House)
- Loyal Creatures (Morris Gleitzman, Viking)
Younger children (0 to 8 years)
- Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach (Alison Lester, A&U)
- Mr Chicken Lands on London (Leigh Hobbs, A&U)
- The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, Pan)
- Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape (Jacqueline Harvey, Random House)
- The Last King of Angkor Wat (Graeme Base, Viking)
Illustrated book of the year
- What a Croc! (Hachette)
- New Feast (Greg & Lucy Malouf, Hardie Grant)
- Community (Hetty Mckinnon, Macmillan)
- Australian Art: A History (Sasha Grishin, MUP)
- Anzac Treasures (Peter Pedersen, Murdoch Books)
International book of the year
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Karen Joy Fowler, A&U)
- Not That Kind of Girl (Lena Dunham, HarperCollins)
- All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr, HarperCollins)
- Yes Please (Amy Poehler, Macmillan)
- Plenty More (Yotam Ottolenghi, Ebury)
Matt Richell award for new writer
- The Tea Chest (Josephine Moon, A&U)
- Lost & Found (Brooke Davis, Hachette)
- Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
- Only the Animals (Ceridwen Dovey, Hamish Hamilton)
- Here Come the Dogs (Omar Musa, Hamish Hamilton)
Small publishers’ adult book of the year
- The Voice: My Story (Ray Warren, Black Inc.)
- Australian Notebooks (Betty Churcher, MUP)
- Diary of a Foreign Minister (Bob Carr, NewSouth)
- A Murder Unmentioned (Sulari Gentill, Pantera Press)
- How I Rescued My Brain (David Roland, Scribe)
Small publishers’ children’s book of the year
- Captain Thunderbolt (Jane Smith, Big Sky)
- A Secret Safe to Tell (Naomi Hunter, JoJo Publishing)
- Tea and Sugar Christmas (Jane Jolly, NLA)
- I Could Wear that Hat! (Ben Sanders, Thames & Hudson)
- Sticks & Stones, Animal Homes (Tai Snaith, Thames & Hudson).
The winners will be announced on 21 May at a gala dinner in Sydney. For more information, visit the ABIA website here.
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