#Australian Literary Leftovers
by N@ncy
- Since award season has drawn to a close
- I still have lots of reading to do!
- Australian Literary Leftovers
- ….and I mean this in a good way...
- …books I did not have the time to read.
- I’m working to reduce my Aussie TBR in 2019.
- I find making a shortlist
- …keeps me motivated to read and
- …I don’t waste time searching for my next book.
Poetry: 2/13
- Lemons in the Chicken Wire – A. Whittaker
- Interval – Judith Bishop
- Things I thought to tell you since I saw you last – P. Layland
- Little Bit Long Time – A. Eckermann
- Tilt – Kate Lilley – READ 38/38 poems #AWW2019
- The Radio Room – Cilla McQueen (NZ) – READ poems 34/34 #AWW2019
- Carrying The World – Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Waiting For the Past – Les Murray RIP 29.04.2019
- Poūkahangatus – Tayi Tibble (NZ)
- There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime – E. Kennedy (NZ)
- Novelties – Fiona Hile
- Blakwork – Allison Whittaker
- The Lost Arabs – Omar Sakr
Plays: 1/10
- Black is the New White – N. Lui – READ #AWW2019
- The Almighty Sometimes – K. Feaver – READ #AWW2019
- Highway of Lost Hearts – M.A. Butler
- The Torrents – Oriel Gray
- Transparency – Suzie Miller
- The Call – Patricia Cornelius
- Jump For Jordan – Donna Abela
- The Secret River – Andrew Bovell
- Broken – Mary Anne Butler – READING
- When the Rain Stops Falling – Andrew Bovell
Fiction: 1/13
- The Mortal Boy – Fiona Kidman (historical fiction) (NZ) – READ #AWW2019
- Flames – R. Arnott – READ (..not my kind of book)
- The Lebs – M.M. Ahmad – READ
- Astonished Dice – Geoff Cochrane (NZ)
- The New Ships – Kate Duignan (NZ)
- To the Islands – R. Stow
- Wake in Fright – K. Cook
- The High Places – Fiona McFarlane
- The Commandant – Jessica Anderson
- The Choke – Sofie Laguna
- The Biographer’s Lover – Ruby J Murray
- Coach Fitz – Tom Lee
- Paris dreaming – Anita Heiss
Non-Fiction: 2/9
- Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook – J. Kent – READ #AWW2019
- A Life Underwater – Charlie Venon
- No Friend But the Mountains – B. Boochani NSW Award 2019 – READ (…review soon)
- Not Just Black and White – L. Williams, T. Williams – READ (…review soon)
- Cadence: Travels with music – Emma (now Eddie) Ayres
- Bearing Witness – P. Rees
- True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction – Helen Garner
- The First Casualty – Peter Greste
- Maybe tomorrow – Boori Monty Pryor
Australia has much to offer!
- National Biography Award
- Queensland Literary Awards
- Queensland Premier’s Award for Drama
- Queensland Literary Award shortlist 2018
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
- Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
- Australian Book Industry Awards
- National Biography Awards Australia
- Christina Stead Awards
- Stella Prize
- ALS Gold Medal
- Kibble and Dobbie Awards
- Miles Franklin Literary Award
- New Zealand Book Awards
- Aurealis Awards Prize announcement 04 May 2019
- Steele Rudd Awards
- Indie Book Awards
- Patrick White Award
- The Walkley Awards
- Pascall Prize
- Calibre Essay Prize
- Viva La Novella Prize
- Kathleen Mitchell Prize (bi-annual for young authors)
- #ABIA2018 Longlist
- #ABIA2017 Longlist ( great books!)
- Waverly Library Awards
- Anne Elder Award (poetry)
- Barbara Jefferis Award:
- NSW Premier’s Literary Award
- NSW Premier’s Literary Award shortlist 2019
- Western Australian Premier’s Book Award
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What a list Nancy. I’ve read a few there – though almost none in the poetry or plays line. Read a couple of plays last year, by Helen Garner, but I tend not to read plays in general.
BTW Paris Dreaming is fiction. Heiss has written some non-fiction but that is one of her choc-lit (play on chick-lit) novels.
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Oke, thanks for the heads-up about Paris Dreaming…I’ll put in the correct category.
Plays and poetry were my out of comfort for years….but they have so much to offer!
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They do, I agree.
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BTW, the last plays I reviewed on my blog were by Helen Garner!
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