· Cory Taylor's Me and Mr Booker is
the regional winner (Pacific) of the 2012 Commonwealth Book
Prize. The overall winner will be presented at a ceremony at the Hay
Festival on 8 June.
· Kate Grenville's Sarah Thornhill and
Adrian Hyland's Kinglake-350
have both been shortlisted in the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards,
for fiction and non-fiction respectively.
· Designers WH Chong and Susan Miller were recognised at the 2012
APA Book DesignAwards for their work on Bernard Beckett's August, which won Best YA
Cover and Best Designed Children's Book.
·Jane Higgins' The Bridge was given an
Honour Award at the 2012 NZ Post Children's Book of the Year Awards in the YA
category, and also won the reader's choice award.
· S J Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and
Kate Grenville's Sarah Thornhill have been
shortlisted in the Independent Booksellers' Week Book Awards in the UK. The
winners are voted for by bookshop customers, and will be announced in early
September.
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