Indie Book Awards 2018 shortlist announced
Leading Edge Books has announced the 2018 Indie Book Awards shortlist, for the best Australian books published in 2017.
The shortlisted titles in each category are:
Fiction
- Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Pan)
- The Choke (Sofie Laguna, A&U)
- On the Java Ridge (Jock Serong, Text)
- City of Crows (Chris Womersley, Picador)
Nonfiction
- Working Class Man (Jimmy Barnes, HarperCollins)
- The Museum of Words (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
- Saga Land (Richard Fidler & Kari Gislason, ABC Books)
- The Trauma Cleaner (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
Debut fiction
- Wimmera (Mark Brandi, Hachette)
- Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text)
- The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover, Black Inc.)
- See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Young adult
- Beautiful Mess (Claire Christian, Text)
- Take Three Girls (Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood & Simmone Howell , Pan)
- Untidy Towns (Kate O’Donnell, UQP)
- Wilder Country (Mark Smith, Text)
Children’s
- Pig the Star (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
- I’m Australian Too (Mem Fox, illus by Ronojoy Ghosh, Scholastic)
- Polly and Buster: The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Sally Rippin, Hardie Grant Egmont)
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Jessica Townsend, Hachette)
Illustrated nonfiction
- Maggie’s Recipe For Life (Maggie Beer & Ralph Martins, S&S)
- Cornersmith: Salads and Pickles (Alex Elliott-Howery & Sabine Spindler, Murdoch Books)
- Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants (Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters, Thames & Hudson)
- Beyond the Rock (Janelle McCulloch, Echo)
Chosen from a longlist announced in December, the shortlisted titles were voted on by independent booksellers from around the country, who are also members of Leading Edge Books. Panels of judges (indie booksellers and avid readers) will choose the winners in the six categories, and independent booksellers will vote to choose their overall Indie ‘Book of the Year’ from the 24 shortlisted titles.
The winners will be announced on 26 March at the 2018 Leading Edge Books conference in Hobart. Now in its 10th year, the awards ‘recognise and celebrate independent booksellers as the number one supporters of Australian authors’.
For more information on the awards, visit the website here.
Books+Publishing is a partner of the 2018 Leading Edge Books Indie Book Awards.
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