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Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Pan Macmillan) has won the 2009 Walkley Nonfiction Book Award.

The award, announced last Thursday 26 November, recognises ‘excellence in nonfiction literature and long-form journalism’.

The Walkley Foundation said the book was ‘written with extraordinary narrative verve’. ‘Relying on exhaustive research and a true insider’s knowledge of the political world, this is history written at its compelling best; Freudenberg captures the blood and the tears, the love and the loathing.’

Also shortlisted for the award were The Mother of Mohammed (Sally Neighbour, MUP) and Firepower (Gerard Ryle, A&U).

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/14114/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

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