Walkley Book Award 2016 longlist announced

Friday, 21 October 2016 Books+Publishing

The 2016 Walkley Book Award longlist has been announced.

The longlisted titles are:

Phillip Schuler: The Remarkable Life of One of Australia’s Greatest War Correspondents (Mark Baker, A&U)
The Squad (Yoni Bashan, HarperCollins)
The Killing Season (Sarah Ferguson & Patricia Drum, MUP)
Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru (Madeline Gleeson, NewSouth)
Talking to My Country (Stan Grant, HarperCollins)
Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead (Thornton McCamish, Black Inc.)
The Art of Rivalry (Sebastian Smee, Text)
The Ice Age (Luke Williams, Scribe)
Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (Ashleigh Wilson, Text).

A shortlist will be announced ahead of the awards presentation in Brisbane on 2 December.

The Walkley Book Award recognises excellence in Australian nonfiction literature and long-form journalism. For more information, click here.