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Davitt Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Friday, 6 July 2018   Books+Publishing
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Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women.

The shortlisted works in each category are:

Adult novel

  • The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey, A&U)
  • The Hidden Hours (Sara Foster, S&S)
  • Crimson Lake (Candice Fox, Bantam)
  • Crossing the Lines (Sulari Gentill, Pantera)
  • Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Pan)
  • And Fire Came Down (Emma Viskic, Echo)

Young adult novel

  • No Limits (Ellie Marney, Bearded Lady Press)
  • Jack of Spades (Sophie Masson, Eagle Books)
  • Ballad for a Mad Girl (Vikki Wakefield, Text)

Children’s novel

  • Welcome to Willowvale: Vet Cadets Book One (Rebecca Johnson, Puffin)
  • Whimsy and Woe (Rebecca McRitchie, HarperCollins)
  • The Turnkey (Allison Rushby, Walker Books)
  • Squishy Taylor and the Silver Suitcase: Squishy Taylor Book Seven (Ailsa Wild, illus by Ben Wood, Hardie Grant Egmont)

Nonfiction

  • The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller: An Australian’s True Story of Adventure, Danger, Romance and Murder (Carol Baxter, A&U)
  • Whiteley on Trial (Gabriella Coslovich, MUP)
  • The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
  • Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (Louise Milligan, MUP)

Debut

  • The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey, A&U)
  • Whiteley on Trial (Gabriella Coslovich, MUP)
  • The Girl in Keller’s Way (Megan Goldin, Michael Joseph)
  • Welcome to Willowvale: Vet Cadets Book One (Rebecca Johnson, Puffin)
  • The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
  • Whimsy and Woe (Rebecca McRitchie, HarperCollins)
  • Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (Louise Milligan, MUP)
  • See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
  • Half Wild (Pip Smith, A&U)
  • Ballad for a Mad Girl (Vikki Wakefield, Text)

The shortlisted titles were chosen from longlists announced in June.

For the first time this year, the Davitt Awards were open to self-published books. Out of 19 self-published titles entered, just one made it to the shortlist: No Limits by previous Davitt YA winner Ellie Marney.

Judging panel chair Jacqui Horwood noted, ‘Five out of the six shortlisted adult novels and two out of the three young adult novels are set in either country towns or the bush’.

The winners will be announced on 11 August at an event in Melbourne with guest presenter and Danish crime writer Sissel-Jo Gazan.

For more information, see the Sisters in Crime website.

 

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