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.
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.
In exciting news, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy has been named Dymocks Book of the Year 2025.
We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 Write It Fellowship: Dayle Fogarty, Naomi Fogarty and Violet Marr.
Propulsive and hypnotic, Flesh asks profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.
Today, Penguin Random House Australia (PRH AU) celebrates an incredible milestone of over 10 million Bluey books sold across 100 titles in the book range available in Australia and New Zealand.
Penguin Random House Australia is thrilled to announce Touch Grass by Mary Colussi as the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize 2025.
The first book in the co-written series, The Number One Insta Detectives Agency, will be published in 2026.
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From the author of The Light Between Oceans comes this new, powerful drama.