Western Australian Premier's Book AwardsShortlist

Given by Western Australian Government

Other Names: Western Australia Premier's Book Award (Russian)
141 Works 3 Books
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards supports, develops and recognises excellence in Western Australian writing. These Awards are made available by the Western Australian Government and show more are managed by the State Library of Western Australia. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (61), Shortlist (141), No Stage (131)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2021 (2), 2018 (5), 2016 (27), 2014 (19), 2012 (10), 2011 (9), 2010 (10), 2009 (5), 2008 (9), 2007 (7), 2006 (5), 2005 (4), 2004 (3), 2003 (7), 2002 (9), 2001 (9), 1998 (1)

Shortlist 141

WorkCategoryYear
Locust Summer by David Allan-PetaleEmerging Writer2021
Eye of a Rook by Josephine TaylorEmerging Writer2021
The wounded sinner by Gus HendersonEmerging Writer2018
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernanEmerging Writer2018
You belong here by Laurie SteedEmerging Writer2018
If I Tell You by Alicia TuckermanEmerging Writer2018
The Sky Runs Right Through Us (UWAP Poetry) by Reneé Pettitt-SchippEmerging Writers2018
Reality by Ray GlickmanEmerging Writers2016
Conversations I've never had by Caitlin MalingEmerging Writers2016
I, Migrant: A Comedian's Journey from Karachi to the Outback by Sami ShahEmerging Writers2016
Clade by James BradleyFiction2016
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth HarrowerFiction2016
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth HarrowerFiction2016
A Guide to Berlin by Gail JonesFiction2016
Crow's Breath by John KinsellaFiction2016
Feet to the Stars: and other stories by Susan MidaliaFiction2016
Claustrophobia by Tracy RyanFiction2016
The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation by Alan AtkinsonNon-Fiction2016
John Olsen : an artist's life by Darleen BungeyNon-Fiction2016
Mannix by Brenda NiallNon-Fiction2016
The poet's wife by Mandy SayerNon-Fiction2016
My Gallipoli by Ruth StarkeNon-Fiction2016
Between Duty and Design: The architect-soldier Sir J.J. Talbot Hobbs by John TaylorNon-Fiction2016
In My Mother's Hands: A Disturbing Memoir of Family Life by Biff WardNon-Fiction2016
The Hazards (UQP Poetry Series) by Sarah Holland-BattPoetry2016
Radiance by Andy KissanePoetry2016
The fox petition by Jennifer MaidenPoetry2016
Earth Hour by David MaloufPoetry2016
The dealer is the devil : an insider's history of the Aboriginal art trade by Adrian NewsteadWestern Australian History2016
The river and the book by Alison CroggonYoung Adult2016
Are You Seeing Me? by Darren GrothYoung Adult2016
One True Thing by Nicole HayesYoung Adult2016
Freedom Ride by Sue LawsonYoung Adult2016
Talk Under Water by Kathryn LomerYoung Adult2016
Baby Bedtime by Mem FoxChildren’s Books2014
My Superhero by Chris OwenChildren’s Books2014
Stay well soon by Penny TangeyChildren’s Books2014
Fractured by Dawn BarkerEmerging Writers2014
Salt Story: Of Sea-Dogs and Fisherwomen by Sarah DrummondEmerging Writers2014
Letters to the End of Love by Yvette WalkerEmerging Writers2014
Elemental by Amanda CurtinFiction2014
The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy FarrFiction2014
Coal Creek by Alex MillerFiction2014
Eyrie by Tim WintonFiction2014
All the Birds, Singing by Evie WyldFiction2014
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power by Philip DwyerNon-fiction2014
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David KilcullenNon-fiction2014
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport by Anna KrienNon-fiction2014
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare WrightNon-fiction2014
Walking: New and Selected Poems by Kevin BrophyPoetry2014
Xn by Carol JenkinsPoetry2014
Stone scar air water by Judy JohnsonPoetry2014
Unearthed by Tracy RyanPoetry2014
The Voyage by Murray BailFiction2012
The Conversation by David BrooksFiction2012
The Meaning of Grace by Deborah ForsterFiction2012
The mountain by Drusilla ModjeskaFiction2012
Mateship With Birds by Carrie TiffanyFiction2012
Montebello by Robert DreweNon Fiction2012
Sandakan by Paul HamNon Fiction2012
Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources by Geoff HiscockNon Fiction2012
The Mind of a Thief by Patti MillerNon Fiction2012
Mr JW Lewin: Painter & Naturalist by Richard NevilleNon Fiction2012
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine BrooksFiction2011
The Cook by Wayne MacauleyFiction2011
Foal's Bread by Gillian MearsFiction2011
The Street Sweeper by Elliot PerlmanFiction2011
1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James BoyceNon Fiction2011
Paramédico by Benjamin GilmourNon Fiction2011
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul HamNon Fiction2011
Black Swan A Koori Woman's Life by Carolyn LandonNon Fiction2011
An eye for eternity : the life of Manning Clark by Mark McKennaNon Fiction2011
Traitor by Stephen DaisleyFiction2010
The Body in the Clouds: A Novel by Ashley HayFiction2010
Utopian Man by Lisa LangFiction2010
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregorFiction2010
The English Class by Ouyang YuFiction2010
The Quest for Justice by Ken CrispinNon Fiction2010
Macquarie: From Colony to Country by Harry DillonNon Fiction2010
Breaking News: The Golden Age of Graham Perkin by Ben HillsNon Fiction2010
Into the Woods by Anna KrienNon Fiction2010
Reading by moonlight : how books saved a life by Brenda WalkerNon Fiction2010
Ransom by David MaloufFiction2009
Barley Patch by Gerald MurnaneFiction2009
Between Stations by Kim Cheng BoeyNon Fiction2009
Australians (volume 1): Origins to Eureka by Thomas KeneallyNon Fiction2009
Grand obsessions : the life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin by Alasdair McGregorNon Fiction2009
The Spare Room by Helen GarnerFiction2008
The Lieutenant by Kate GrenvilleFiction2008
Disquiet by Julia LeighFiction2008
The Boat by Nam LeFiction2008
Breath by Tim WintonFiction2008
Churchill and Australia by Graham FreudenbergNon Fiction2008
House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn JuersNon Fiction2008
American Journeys by Don WatsonNon Fiction2008
Jack's Island by Norman JorgensenShortlisted2008
A History of the Beanbag and Other Stories (New Writing) by Susan MidaliaFiction2007
A Curious Intimacy by Jessica WhiteFiction2007
The Seamstress (New Writing) by Geraldine WoollerFiction2007
The end of innocence : the remarkable true story of one woman's fight for justice by Estelle BlackburnNon Fiction2007
Rhythms of the Kimberley: A Seasonal Journey Through Australia's North by Russell GuehoNon Fiction2007
The Killer Within: Inside the World of Bradley John Murdoch by Paul TooheyNon Fiction2007
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sky: Domesticity, Danger and Deadlines - Confessions of a Foreign Correspondent in Iraq by Gina WilkinsonNon Fiction2007
Shadow Thief by Marion CampbellFiction2006
Dreams of Speaking by Gail JonesFiction2006
Careless by Deborah RobertsonFiction2006
The music of dunes by Mike WilliamsFiction2006
Learning to Dance: Elizabeth Jolley - Her Life and Work by Elizabeth JolleyNon Fiction2006
Man of water by Chris McLeodFiction2005
A New Map of the Universe (New Writing) by Annabel SmithFiction2005
Road Story by Julienne Van LoonFiction2005
Seeking the Sydney: A Quest for Truth by Glenys McdonaldNon Fiction2005
Toccata & Rain by Philip SalomFiction2004
The Turning: Stories by Tim WintonFiction2004
Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East by Joseph PoprzecznyNon Fiction2004
The Accomplice by Kathryn HeymanFiction2003
Channelling Henry by Bruce RussellFiction2003
Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts by Fiona GilesNon Fiction2003
City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s by Jenny GregoryNon Fiction2003
Unity is strength : a history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia, 1899-1999 by Bobbie OliverNon Fiction2003
Beyond the Lattice: Looking into Broome's Early Years by Susan SickertNon Fiction2003
James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia by Pamela Statham-DrewNon Fiction2003
Under a Tin-Grey Sari by Wayne AshtonFiction2002
Skins by Sarah HayFiction2002
The home crowd by Graham KershawFiction2002
Swan River letters by Ian BerrymanNon Fiction2002
Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching by Tara BrabazonNon Fiction2002
Verticordia: The Turner of Hearts by Elizabeth A. GeorgeNon Fiction2002
Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers by Mary Anne JebbNon Fiction2002
The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination by Richard NileNon Fiction2002
Under the wintamarra tree by Doris PilkingtonNon Fiction2002
A Baker's Dozen by Dorothy HewettFiction2001
An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth JolleyFiction2001
Undertow by Nicole Lobry de BruynFiction2001
Gilgamesh by Joan LondonFiction2001
Man from the Sunrise Side by Ambrose Mungala ChalarimeriNon Fiction2001
Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimbe by Christine ChooNon Fiction2001
We'll be married in Fremantle : Alzheimer's disease and the everyday act of storying / Julie Goyder. by Julie GoyderNon Fiction2001
Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia 1886-1888 by Tony Hughes-d'AethNon Fiction2001
Milk and Honey - But No Gold: Postwar Migration to Western Australia Between 1945-1964 by Nonja PetersNon Fiction2001
Jacob's Air by Bruce Russell1998

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