Indie Book Award nominees at your library

On 20 January the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2021 was announced. These awards recognise and reward the best Australian writing as chosen by Australian independent booksellers.

The Awards celebrate the enormous depth and range of literary talent in this nation and you, lucky readers, can access all the short-listed books free from your local library!

Simply download our Wollongong City Libraries app and reserve your book. The app also provides easy access to a whole suite of functions and eResources from our website. Lynda, BorrowBox, Studiosity and Kanopy, the online film and documentary streaming service, are all a tap away. Save money by scanning the barcode of any book to see if Wollongong City Libraries has a copy.

The winners will be announced on 22 March.

2021 Indie Book Awards Shortlist

Fiction

All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton (HarperCollins Australia)

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan (Knopf Australia)

Mammoth by Chris Flynn (University of Queensland Press)

Honeybee by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin)

Non-Fiction

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird (Fourth Estate Australia)

The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (Macmillan Australia)

People of the River by Grace Karskens (Allen & Unwin)

Truganini by Cassandra Pybus (Allen & Unwin)

Debut Fiction

The Bluffs by Kyle Perry (Michael Joseph Australia)

Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson (Hachette Australia)

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu (Allen & Unwin)

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Affirm Press)

Illustrated Non-Fiction

Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong by Samantha Bloom, Cameron Bloom & Bradley Trevor Greive (ABC Books, HarperCollins Australia)

Plantopedia by Lauren Camilleri & Sophia Kaplan (Smith Street Books)

Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull (Hardie Grant Books)

In Praise of Veg by Alice Zaslavsky (Murdoch Books)

Children’s

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals by Sami Bayly
(Lothian Children’s Books)

Sing Me The Summer by Jane Godwin, illustrated by Alison Lester (Affirm Press)

The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor (Affirm Press)

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Lothian Children’s Books)

Young Adult

Future Girl by Asphyxia (Allen & Unwin Children’s)

Catch Me If I Fall by Barry Jonsberg (Allen & Unwin Children’s)

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin Children’s)

This One is Ours by Kate O’Donnell (University of Queensland Press).