Summer Reading Guide 2012 - Literary Award Winners

All That I Am

Anna Funder

Penguin, PB, 9780143567516

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A masterful novel about bravery and betrayal, risks and sacrifices, set in Berlin, London and Sydney. Winner of the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award.


Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

Fourth Estate, PB, 9780007353583

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The second volume of Hilary Mantel’s astounding account of the life of Thomas Cromwell was the first sequel to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.


Chinaman

The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

Shehan Karunatilaka

Vintage, PB, 9780099555681

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This story of modern-day Sri Lanka and its most cherished sport, cricket, was awarded this year’s Commonwealth Book Prize.


Even the Dogs

Jon McGregor

Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408809471

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An intimate exploration of life at the edges of society, Even the Dogs is about love, loss, despair and redemption. Winner of the 2012 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.


Foal's Bread

Gillian Mears

Allen & Unwin, PB, 9781743311851

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This story set within the Australian high-jumping horse circuit prior to WWII was the winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award (Fiction).


The Rage

Gene Kerrigan

Vintage, PB, 9780099532033

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Kerrigan’s hardboiled thriller set in credit-crunch Dublin won this year’s Crime Writer’s Association (CWA) Gold Dagger.


Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

Arrow, PB, 9780099451679

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The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is best known for this novel of family and myth set in China during the turbulent 1930s.


The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408821985

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American academic and novelist Madeline Miller won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction for this startlingly original rendering of the Trojan War.