2011 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards

Shortlisted Titles


Young Adults Shortlist
Crow Country Kate Constable (Allen & Unwin)
Horses for the King LS Lawrence (Omnibus Books)
The Coming of the Whirlpool Andrew McGahon (Allen & Unwin)
The Dead I Know Scot Gardner (Allen & Unwin)
Only Ever Always Penny Russo (Allen & Unwin)
Whisper Chrissie Keighery (Hardie Grant Egmont)



Fiction Shortlist

All that I Am Anna Funder (Penguin Group)
Caleb’s Crossing Geraldine Brooks (HarperCollins)
Five Bells Gail Jones (Random House Australia)
Foal’s Bread Gillian Mears (Allen & Unwin)
The Cook Wayne McCauley (Text Publishing Company)
The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman (Random House Australia)


WA History Shortlist
A Garden on the Margaret: the Path to Old Bridge House Gillian Lilleyman (Gillian Lilleyman)
Fremantle Port John Dowson (The Chart and Map Shop)
Government House and Western Australian Society 1829-2012 Jeremy Martens (UWA publishing)
Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia Fiona Skyring (UWA Publishing)
Powering Perth: A History of the East Perth Power Station Lenore Layman (Black Swan Press)
Triumphs and Tragedies: Oombulgurri an Australian Aboriginal Community Neville Green (Hesperian Press)


Poetry Shortlist
Armour John Kinsella (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Interferon Psalms Luke Davies (Allen & Unwin)
Lines for Birds Barry Hill & John Wolseley (UWA Publishing)
Surface to Air Jaya Savige (University of Queensland Press)
The Argument Tracy Ryan (Fremantle Press)
The Taste of River Water Cate Kennedy (Scribe Publications)

Children’s Books Shortlist
A Bus Called Heaven Bob Graham (Walker Books)
Archie's Letter Martin Flanagan Illustrations by Ainsley Walters (One Day Hill Publishing)
Brotherband 1: The Outcasts John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
On Orchard Road Elsbeth Edgar (Walker Books)
Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck Michelle Gillespie Illustrations by Sonia Martinez (Fremantle Press)
The Little Refugee Anh & Suzanne Do Illustrations by Bruce Whatley (Allen & Unwin)

Digital Narrative Shortlist
Bear and Bairn Caralyn Lagrange
Machine Man Max Barry
Nullarbor Song Cycle David Reiter
Puri: Search for Paradise Robin Clark & Amanda Clark
Sparky the Shark - A Frighteningly Funny Adventure Mark Newell & Paula Mantle

Non-Fiction Shortlist
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia James Boyce (Black Inc.)
An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark Mark McKenna (The Miengunyah Press)
Hiroshima Nagasaki Paul Ham (Harper Collins Publishers)
Her Father's Daughter Alice Pung (Black Inc.)
Paramedico: Around the World by Ambulance Benjamin Gilmour (Murdoch Books Australia)
Black Swan: A Koori Woman's Life Eileen Harrison & Carolyn Landon (Allen & Unwin)