Hachette Australia is so happy to congratulate our local & international authors on their ABIA Awards 2017 longlistings.
The ABIAs have been celebrating Australian stories and the astounding talent in the Australian publishing industry for 17 years. The ABIA Voting Academy is made up of over 100 representatives from across the bookselling and publishing industry.
The shortlist will be announced on April 9 and the winners will be announced at the gala event on May 25.
We are pleased to reveal that Hachette Australia have several authors longlisted in the following categories:
We also offer our congratulations to the amazing eight authors longlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.
For more information visit the ABIA website.
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From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
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'Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller' Dave Eggers, international bestselling author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS.
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A beautiful novel about the innocence of childhood and the scars that stay with you for life, from the award-winning author of MR WIGG and NEST.
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A brand new novel everyone will be talking about from the award-winning author of THINGS WE DIDN'T SEE COMING and WHAT THE FAMILY NEEDED.
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The teen edition of the bestselling biography of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, Australian lawyer, and man of hope. For readers aged 12+
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Subhi's imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he's spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. THE BONE SPARROW is a powerful, heartbreaking, sometimes funny and ultimately uplifting hymn to freedom and love.
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The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a play by Jack Thorne.
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