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Ochre and Rust
Winner! Non-Fiction Category,
2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards


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Awards

Blue Ribbon Cookbook
Liz Harful
Australian winner: 2008 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the category Best Easy Recipes and also short-listed (1 of 3) to win Best in the World in that category

One Magic Square
Lolo Houbein
Australian winner: 2008 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the category Best Innovative Cookbook

Ochre and Rust
Philip Jones
Winner,
Non-Fiction Category, 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards; Short-listed 2007 Queensland Premier’s Awards; Short-listed 2007 NSW Premier’s Awards; Joint Winner, FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award 2008

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

English for a New Millennium

Leading change

Edited by Cal Durrant and Karen Starr

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Everything but the Squeal

A year of pigging out in northern Spain

John Barlow

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WomanSpeak

Louise Nicholas and Jude Aquilina

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The Villa Diana

Travels in post-war Italy

Alan Moorehead

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Flinders Essays in Economics and Economic History

A tribute to Keith Jackson Hancock, Metodey Polasek and Robert Henry Wallace

Edited by Ralph Shlomowitz

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Last Bed on Earth

Teri Louise Kelly

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Servants Depots in Colonial South Australia

Marie Steiner

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Nora Heysen

Light and life

Jane Hylton

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Catch Fire

Friendly Street Poets 33

Edited by Aidan Coleman and Juliet A. Paine

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