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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2018 recipient May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship
- 2017 winner Australian Society of Authors Mentorship ASA Mentorship — Emerging Writers
- 2016 shortlisted Ampersand Prize For 'Anomalies' (YA steampunk).
Awards for Works
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The Grandest Bookshop in the World
Mulgrave
:
Affirm Press
,
2020
19678977
2020
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father.
'When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.' (Publication summary)
- 2021 shortlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize — Children and Young Adult
- 2021 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards — Eight to 10 Years
- 2021 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2021 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Children's Novel
- 2021 winner Booksellers Choice Award — Children's Book of the Year
- 2021 longlisted Book Links Award for Historical Fiction
- 2021 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books
- 2021 shortlisted The Readings Children’s Book Prize
- 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Younger Readers
- 2021 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
- 2021 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Younger Children
- 2021 winner Indie Awards — Children's
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