AustLit
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One Book One Brisbane, sponsored by Brisbane City Council, is about building Brisbane's strong reading culture and providing a range of events to discuss a single book. One Book One Brisbane aims to involve people in reading, increase the sense of community by creating a common topic of conversation, and create opportunities to engage people in reading and discussion about social issues.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2006
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Year: 2005
winner y The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies 2003 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004 Z1072142 2003 single work novel crime mystery'Twenty years after the first boy vanished along the Brisbane River, psychologist Madeleine Jeffries is called home to help untangle a chain of similar disappearances. To do so she must confront secrets and guilt from her own past.
'The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies is an exploration of grief, responsibility and repercussions, and the way childhood actions can echo throughout our lives.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Year: 2004
joint winner y Johnno : A Novel St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1975 Z25348 1975 single work novel (taught in 9 units)'Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers, they learn about love and life amidst the city's pubs and public libraries, backyards and brothels, Moreton Bay figs and tennis parties. As adults, they make the great pilgrimage overseas and maintain an uneasy friendship as they seek to build their lives.
'An affectionate and bittersweet portrait, Johnno brilliantly recreates the sleazy, tropical half-city that was Brisbane and captures a generation locked in combat with the elusive Australian dream.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin).
joint winner y The Girl Most Likely St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2003 Z1004262 2003 single work novel humour -
Year: 2003
winner y The Mayne Inheritance St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1997 Z919929 1997 single work biography -
Year: 2002
winner y True History of the Kelly Gang St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2000 Z668312 2000 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 29 units)'"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false."
'In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semi-literate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.' (From the publisher's website.)
Works About this Award
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There is a Tale or Two About This City 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 - 16 October 2005; (p. 12)