Winners to be announced 18 March 2019.
Congratulations to the Penguin Random House authors longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards.
Fiction Longlist
- The Children's House by Alice Nelson
- The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
Non-Fiction Longlist
- The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
- Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
Children’s Longlist
- The Tales of Mr Walker by Jess Black & Sara Acton
Young Adult Longlist
- Just Breathe by Andrew Daddo
- Tin Heart by Shivaun Plozza
The Indie Book Awards recognise and celebrate the indie booksellers as the number one supporters of Australian authors. Since the Awards inception eleven years ago, Indies have a well-deserved reputation for picking the best of the best in Australian writing.
The awards recognise books across six categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Children's and Young Adult.
The shortlist will be announced on 16 January 2019, with the Category Winners and the Overall Book of the Year Winner being announced at the Leading Edge Books Annual Conference Awards Dinner to be held Monday 18 March 2019 in Adelaide, SA.
A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.
The longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize has been announced, with five Penguin Random House titles named this year.
DK are so excited to share the cover of our upcoming graphic novel Nikolas Nurdblok and the Lost Brick, made with our friends at LEGO and written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling cartoonist Jeffrey Brown!
Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore has been named the ABA BookData Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2026, as voted by booksellers across Australia.
Two Penguin Random House titles have been awarded the Women's Prize this year.
Penguin Random House Australia is thrilled to announce Driftwood by Brooke Maddison as the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize 2026.
Penguin Random House has won Publisher of the Year at the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The 2026 ABIA have just been announced and we are beyond excited to share that Penguin Random House has been awarded Publisher of the Year marking our third consecutive win - and fifth in six years!
Internationally acclaimed author and poet David Malouf AO has died, aged 92
We are delighted to share that Virginia Evans and Susan Choi have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2026 awards!
Check out the Penguin Random House books that have been shortlisted for the ABIAs in 2026. The winners will be announced on 21 May 2026.
We are delighted to share that we have an abundance of female authors shortlisted for the Women's Prize For Non-fiction 2026 awards!
See which bookstores have been named recipients of the Penguin Children’s Bookseller Grant.