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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/

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The titles shortlisted for this year’s Walkley Nonfiction Book Award have been announced.

In the running for the award are:

    * Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Pan Macmillan)
    * The Mother of Mohammed (Sally Neighbour, MUP)
    * Firepower (Gerard Ryle, A&U).

The nonfiction award recognises ‘excellence in nonfiction literature and long-form journalism’.

The shortlisted works were chosen by Paul Bailey; Malcolm Farr, Christine Wallace, and Quentin Dempster, chair of the Walkley Advisory Board, from more than 70 books submitted for the 2009 awards. The winner will be announced at the Walkleys Gala Dinner on 26 November.

For more information visit http://www.walkleys.com/.

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The nominees for this year’s Walkley Awards were announced on Wednesday night, 14 October. The longlisted works in the best nonfiction book category were:

    * Churchill and Australia (Graham Freudenberg, Macmillan)
    * To The Bitter End: The Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd (Peter Hartcher, A&U)
    * Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History (Jenny Hocking, Miegunyah Press)
    * The Birth Wars (Mary-Rose MacColl, UQP)
    * The Henson Case (David Marr, Text)
    * Darwin’s Armada: How Four Voyagers to the Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World (Iain McCalman, Viking)
    * The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman’s Extraordinary Journey into Jihad (Sally Neighbour, MUP)
    * Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed (Matt Peacock, ABC Books)
    * Firepower: The Most Spectacular Fraud in Australian History (Gerard Ryle, A&U)
    * The Killing of Caroline Byrne: A Journey to Justice (Robert Wainwright, A&U).

A shortlist of three finalists will be announced on Monday 9 November, 2009. For more information see the awards website here.

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This week’s Most Mentioned books were largely Australian in theme with The Best Australian Stories 2008, Tie Me Kangaroo down, Sport and Churchill and Australia all making the top 10. The appearance of Australian fiction, nonfiction and children’s books in the media may have something to do with our fast-approaching Christmas as well as early gift ideas for the big day

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1 Best Australian Stories 2008, The by Delia Falconer
2 Tie Me Kangaroo down, Sport by Rolf Harris
3 Wanting by Richard Flanagan
4 Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
5 Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg

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Tasmanian-born author Richard Flanagan, author of Death of a River Guide, has sparked much interest over his latest novel Wanting. In the book, a young Aboriginal girl is adopted by a famous explorer and his wife. They intend to prove that the ’savage’ can be civilised

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1 Wanting by Richard Flanagan
2 Slap, The by Christos Tsiolkas
3 Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
4 Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg
5 Art of Graeme Base, The by Julie Watts

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/11/10035/

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