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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.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/10/13654/

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.

A shortlist of 17 print, audio and film works in the running for the 2009 NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlists include:

Australian History Prize ($15,000)

    * Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (Robin Gerster, Scribe)
    * Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War (Marina Larsson, UNSW Press)
    * Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography (Jill Roe, Fourth Estate)

General History Prize ($15,000)

    * The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Warwick Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Press)
    * Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Clare Corbould, Harvard University Press)
    * Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War Two (Judith Keene, Praeger Publishers)
    * Darwin’s Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World (Iain McCalman, Viking)

NSW Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000)

    * Up on the Hill: A History of St Patrick’s College, Goulburn (David Bollen, UNSW Press)
    * ‘Was thinking of home today…’: North Sydney and the Great War (Ian Hoskins, North Sydney Council)
    * A History of Sydney’s Darling Harbour (Wayne Johnson & Roger Parris, Sydney Harbour Foreshore)

Young People’s History Prize ($15,000)

    * Krakatoa Lighthouse (Allan Baillie, Penguin)
    * Captain Cook’s Apprentice (Anthony Hill, Penguin)
    * The Night We Made the Flag (Carole Wilkinson, illus by Sebastian Ciaffoglone, Black Dog Books)
    * Lighthouse Girl (Dianne Wolfer, illus by Brian Simmonds, Fremantle Press).

‘This year’s shortlisted works were chosen from 182 nominations and cover topics as diverse as disabled WWI veterans, volunteer servicemen in Hiroshima, the story of Australian surfing, the work of Charles Darwin, race relations in Kempsey and African American identity,’ said NSW Premier and Minister for the Arts Nathan Rees.

The winners will be announced at a presentation dinner on Tuesday 27 October.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/10/13656/

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.