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Random House/Woman's Day Romantic Fiction Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The Woman's Day/Random House romantic fiction competition  was an Australia-wide contest. The grand prize was $10,000 and a publishing contract with Random House.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2014

winner y separately published work icon Noble Satyr Lucinda Brant , Los Gatos : Smashwords , 2010 6892937 2010 single work novel romance historical fiction

'1740s France and England. Abandoned to fend for herself at the court of Versailles, Antonia turns to her distant cousin, the all-powerful Duke of Roxton, to help her escape the attentions of a lecherous nobleman. Roxton is an unlikely savior—arrogant, promiscuous, and sinister. Antonia's unquestioning belief in him may just be his salvation, and her undoing. This award-winning historical pays homage to Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades.' (Publication summary)

Year: 1998

winner y separately published work icon The Dangerous Game Louise Grant , Milsons Point : Random House , 1998 Z250374 1998 single work novel romance 'With her grandfather dangerously ill, sixteen-year-old Antonia Moran is left to fend for herself at the flamboyant and licentious court of Louis XV.

The Comte de Salvan, with his painted pock-marked face and penchant for girls just out of the convent, is determined to marry Antonia to his opium-addicted son, then take the girl for his own.

Antonia throws herself on the mercy of the arrogant Duke of Roxton, a man famous for his debauchery. Spirited, educated and very beautiful, Antonia falls in love with Roxton, who is old enough to be her father.

But the Comte wants Antonia and is prepared to do anything to get her. The Duke of Roxton will protect the innocent girl to the end.

The dangerous game has begun.

A colourful romp through the glittering and corrupt court of 18th century Versailles to the imposing ancestral homes of Georgian England, The Dangerous Game is alive with the sexual intrigue of the period.' (Publisher's blurb)

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