Something I missed back in November was the the announcement of the shortlisted works for the 2008 ACT Book of the Year.
The shortlisted works are:
Nicholas Drayson: Love and the Platypus [Scribe Publications]
Jackie French: Pharaoh: The Boy Who Conquered the Nile [Angus and Robertson]
Kim Huynh: Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese-Australian Story [Fourth Estate]
Tony Kevin: Walking the Camino: A Modern Pilgrimage to Santiago [Scribe Publications]
Robert Macklin: Kevin Rudd: The Biography [Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books]
The winner will be announced at the end of December 2008.
