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Winner: Indie Book of the Year and Best Debut Fiction

Sixteen books, seven of them by women, were shortlisted for the Australian Independent Bookseller Awards (The Indie Awards). Voted on by the independent booksellers of Australia, the category winners and the overall ‘Book of the Year’ winners were announced tonight, Monday 25 March 2013.

Congratulations to all the winners!

The winners are:

Indie Book of the Year: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (Random House)

Fiction: Nine Days by Toni Jordan (Text)

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Non-fiction: QF32 by Richard de Crespigny (Macmillan)

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Debut fiction: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (Random House)

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Children’s or YA: Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

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The shortlisted books were:

FICTION:
Nine Days by Toni Jordan (Text)
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch (HarperCollins)
Questions of Travel  by Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin)
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska (Random House)

NON-FICTION:
Lake Eyre by Paul Lockyer (HarperCollins)
QF32 by Richard de Crespigny (Macmillan)
Sandakan by Paul Ham (Random House)
The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path by Michael Leunig (Penguin)

DEBUT FICTION:
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (Random House)
Eleven Seasons by Paul D. Carter (Allen & Unwin)
The Cartographer by Peter Twohig (HarperCollins)
Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell (Hachette Little Brown)

CHILDREN’S:
The Convent by Maureen McCarthy (Allen & Uwnin)
The 26-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton (Macmillan)
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
Unforgotten by Tohby Riddle (Allen & Unwin)

I’m a freelance book reviewer, journalist, editor and librarian. I blog over at Wordsville and you can find me on Twitter @PaulaGrunseit