ARA Historical Novel Prize 2024
With prize money of $150 000, the ARA Historical Novel Prize gives Australian and New Zealand historical novelists the chance to be recognised in a class of their own, with the most significant prize purse for literature in Australasia. The Prize incorporates both an Adult category and a category for Children and Young Adult (CYA). Learn more about the Prize here, and browse the titles below. Please note our list here includes both Adult and CYA categories.
Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim
17.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a better life. A compelling and poignant children's novel from the CBCA award-winning author of Tiger Daughter. What if you wer ...Show more
The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from the author of Fortune. There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more