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Awards

The Meat Game
Richard Maurovic
Australian Winner, Best Culinary History Book, 2007 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Poinciana
Jane Turner Goldsmith
Shortlisted, 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize

Encountering Terra Australis
Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby
Winner, 2005 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize

Forever Shores
Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch (eds)
Joint Winner, 2004 Ditmar Award for Best Anthology

The Market
Catherine Murphy
Winner, 2003 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Culinary History Book (English language category)

Unearthed
Rebe Taylor
Winner, Festival Award for Non-fiction, 2004 Festival Awards for Literature
and
2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for a First Book of History

The Goddamn Bus of Happiness
Stefan Laszczuk
Winner, Festival of Literature Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by a South Australian emerging writer

Hill of Grace
Stephen Orr
Shortlisted, Festival of Literature Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by a South Australian emerging writer

The Pocket Guide to St Paul
Peter Lewis and Ron Bolden
Awarded the 2004 Tom Hanley Cup for Australian Numismatic Literature

Arthur Blackburn, VC

An Australian hero, his men, and their two world wars

Andrew Faulkner

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The Hobbit Trap

Money, fame, science and the discovery of a ‘new species’

Maciej Henneberg and John Schofield

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On the Smell of an Oily Rag

Speaking English, thinking Chinese and living Australian

Ouyang Yu

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Sex, Knives & Bouillabaisse

Teri Louise Kelly

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The Quakers

Rachel Hennessy

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Farmwoman

Ray Tyndale

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Australia’s Muslim Cameleers

Pioneers of the Inland 1860s–1930s

Philip Jones and Anna Kenny

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McLaren Vale: Trotts View

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