Australian independent booksellers, members of Leading Edge Books, are thrilled to announce their Shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2018, for the best Australian books published in 2017!
Now in its tenth year, the Indie Book Awards recognise and celebrate this country’s incredible talent and the role independent booksellers play in supporting and nurturing Australian writing.
Who will win in each category in 2018?
Who will take out the overall ‘2018 Book of the Year’ Award?!
Without further ado, here is the Shortlist for the 2018 Indie Book Awards:
FICTION SHORTLIST:
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan Australia) The Choke by Sofie Laguna (Allen & Unwin) On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong (Text Publishing) City of Crows by Chris Womersley (Pan Macmillan Australia)
NON-FICTION SHORTLIST:
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes (HarperCollins Australia) The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain (Scribe Publications) Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia) The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein (Text Publishing)
DEBUT FICTION SHORTLIST:
Wimmera by Mark Brandi (Hachette Australia) Australia Day by Melanie Cheng (Text Publishing) The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover (Black Inc.) See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (Hachette Australia)
ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION SHORTLIST:
Maggie's Recipe For Life by Maggie Beer with Professor Ralph Martins (Simon & Schuster Australia) Cornersmith: Salads and Pickles by Alex Elliott-Howery & Sabine Spindler (Murdoch Books) Native: Art & Design with Australian Plants by Kate Herd & Jela Ivankovic-Waters (Thames & Hudson Australia) Beyond the Rock by Janelle McCulloch (Bonnier Publishing Australia)
CHILDREN’S SHORTLIST:
Pig the Star by Aaron Blabey (Scholastic Australia) I'm Australian Too by Mem Fox & Ronojoy Ghosh (Illus) (Scholastic Australia) Polly and Buster: The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster by Sally Rippin (Hardie Grant Egmont) Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Hachette Australia)
YOUNG ADULT SHORTLIST:
Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian (Text Publishing) Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood & Simmone Howell (Pan Macmillan Australia) Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell (University of Queensland Press) Wilder Country by Mark Smith (Text Publishing)
The Category Winners and the Overall ‘Book of the Year’ Winner will be announced on Monday 26 March, 2018 at the Leading Edge Books Annual Conference Awards Dinner to be held in Hobart, TAS.