BREAKING NEWS: 2015 Australian Book Industry Award shortlists announced!

The shortlists for the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards have just been announced!

Voted on by some of Australia’s most influential readers, publishers and booksellers, the awards also feature a collection of new prizes, headlined by the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer.

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General Fiction Book of the Year

Laurinda by Alice Pung

Lost & Found by Brooke Davis

Life or Death by Michael Robotham

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

Literary Fiction Book of the Year

Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke

When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett

The Golden Age by Joan London

Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett

Amnesia by Peter Carey

General Non-fiction Book of the Year

The Bush by Don Watson

The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb

Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World by Tim Low

Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner

Biography Book of the Year

Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Molly Meldrum

Love Your Sister by Connie Johnson and Samuel Johnson

Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action by Bob Brown

A Bone of Fact by David Walsh

My Story by Julia Gillard

Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)

Clariel by Garth Nix

Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell

Alice-Miranda in Japan by Jacqueline Harvey

Brotherband 5: Scorpion Mountain by John Flanagan

Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective by R. A. Spratt

Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman

Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years)

Noni the Pony Goes to the Beach by Alison Lester

Mr Chicken Lands on London by Leigh Hobbs

The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths

Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape by Jacqueline Harvey

The Last King of Angkor Wat by Graeme Base

Illustrated Book of the Year

What a Croc! by NT News

New Feast by Greg And Lucy Malouf

Community by Hetty Mckinnon

Australian Art: A History by Sasha Grishin

Anzac Treasures by Peter Pedersen

International Book of the Year

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi

Matt Richell Award for New Writer

The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon

Lost & Found by Brooke Davis

Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey

Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa

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