Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - 2005 Shortlist
Fiction | Poetry | Children's Books | Young Adult's Books | Script | West Australian History Award | Non-Fiction
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Man of Water - Chris McLEOD (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) |
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A New Map of the Universe - Annabel SMITH |
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Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
- Carrie TIFFANY (Picador) |
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Road Story - Julienne VAN LOON |
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The New Arcadia - John KINSELLA (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) |
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Glassmaker - Shane McCAULEY (Sunline Press) |
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Blister Pack
- David McCOOEY (Salt Publishing) |
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The Paradoxes of Water : Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005
- Rod MORAN (Salt Publishing) |
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Where’s Stripey?
- Wendy BINKS (Stunned Emu Press) |
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The Reef - David CADDY (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) |
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Rodeo Darcy
- Alison GREGORY and Mark WILSON (Illustrator) (Cygnet Books (University of Western Australia Press)) |
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The Big Picture Book : See Life on Earth Unfolding Through Time
- John LONG, Illustrations by Brian CHOO, and maps by Sergei PISAREVSKY (Allen & Unwin) |
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Nightpeople - Anthony EATON (University of Queensland Press) |
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With Lots of Love From Georgia
- Brigid LOWRY (Allen & Unwin) |
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A Prayer for Blue Delaney - Kirsty MURRAY
(Allen & Unwin) |
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Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert
- Sue DAVENPORT, Peter JOHNSON and YUWALI (Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) |
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The Scarlet Mile : a Social History of Prostitution in Kalgoorlie, 1894-2004
- Elaine McKEWON (University of Western Australia Press) |
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Kayang & Me
- Kim SCOTT and Hazel BROWN (Fremantle Arts Press) |
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Western Australian Exploration. Vol.I 1826-1835
- The Western Australian Explorers' Project Diaries Committee (Hesperian Press [in conjunction with Department of Land Information]) |
| * These books are also considered short listed for the Non-fiction Award |
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945
- Richard BOSWORTH (Allen Lane/Penguin) |
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Ernest Hodgkin’s Swanland: Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons of South-western Australia
- Anne BREARLEY (University of Western Australia Press for the Ernest Hodgkin Trust for Estuary Education and Research and National Trust of Australia (WA)) |
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Seeking the Sydney: a Quest for Truth
- Glenys McDONALD (University of Western Australia Press) |
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Soul of the Desert - Philippa NIKULINSKY and Stephen D HOPPER (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) |
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Rene Baker file #28/E.D.P.
- Rene POWELL and Bernadette KENNEDY (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) |
Printable version of the 2005 shortlist (PDF - 196KB)