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Brooke Davis Brooke Davis i(A91089 works by)
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BiographyHistory

Brooke Davis grew up in Bellbrae, Victoria, and is based in Perth, Western Australia. Her first novel, Lost & Found, was written as part of a PhD conducted at Curtin University, Western Australia.

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2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $34,940.00

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y separately published work icon Lost & Found Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2014 6864471 2014 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'A heart-warming debut about finding out what love and life is all about.

'At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too.

'Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by the curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers-by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street.

'Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him at the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different.

'Three lost people needing to be found. But they don't know it yet. Millie, Agatha and Karl are about to break the rules and discover what living is all about.' (Publication summary)

2016 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer
2016 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2015 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2015 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2015 shortlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
2014 winner iBooks Fiction Book of the Year
2015 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards BookPeople Book of the Year
Karl the Touch Typist 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Rex : The Journal of New Writing , vol. 3 no. 2 2011; (p. 4-10) Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 2012; (p. 63-71)
2011 winner QUT Creative Writing Prize
Supermarket Song 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Verandah , vol. 20 no. 2005; (p. 8-11)
2005 winner Verandah Awards Verandah Prose Prize
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