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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2005
winner y
The Hamilton Case
Milsons Point
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Random House
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2003
Z1022070
2003
single work
novel
crime
historical fiction
'Having come of age on the island nation of Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere is a lawyer whose life is guided by the British culture that dominates his homeland. Educated at Oxford, with a dazzling career in his sights, Sam is more English than the English. Only his flamboyant, unruly mother, exiled to a jungle estate, reminds him of his family's real heritage and a different set of home truths. Sam's undoing arrives in the form of the Hamilton case, a scandalous murder that shakes the upper echelons of island society. Guided by grandiose visions of Sherlock Holmes, he becomes convinced he can solve the mysterious case - and that his good standing with the English will insulate him from the unrest the case has exposed. In the end, Sam grapples with a life that has been "a series of substitutions," the darkest of human misfortunes.'--BOOK JACKET.
winner y
Journey to the Stone Country
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
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2002
Z982836
2002
single work
novel
(taught in 3 units)
'Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo's claim that he holds the key to her future, Annabelle sets out with him on a path of recovery that leads back to her childhood and into the Jangga's ancient heartland, where their grandparents' lives begin to yield secrets that will challenge the possibility of their happiness together.' - Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2003
winner y
Cafe Scheherazade
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2001
Z794953
2001
single work
novel
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade and here we meet Avram and Masha, the proprietors of the cafe and hear the tales that they and their fellow storytellers have to offer. Of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov and of Zalman marooned in Vina and Kobe. And we learn how Avram and Masha met and fell in love and came to create their Melbourne cafe together. (Libraries Australia)
Works About this Award
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Technique Gets Writer to Awards 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 11 April 2005; (p. 4) -
Commonwealth's Best Converge 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 February 2005; (p. 6) -
Short List for Tasmanian Awards 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 February 2005; (p. 15) -
Tasmania Pacific Region Fiction Prize 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 92 2003; (p. 7-8)
