The shortlists for "The Age" Book of the Year Awards have been announced.
The shortlisted works are
Fiction
Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam (Sleepers)
Look Who's Morphing - Tom Cho (Giramondo)
Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett (Hamish Hamilton)
Cooee - Vivienne Kelly (Scribe)
Ransom - David Malouf (Knopf)
Non-Fiction
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island - Chloe Hooper (Hamish Hamilton)
Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World - Iain McCalman (Viking)
The Red Highway - Nicholas Rothwell (Back Inc)
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History - Jenny Hocling (Miegunyah Press)
Down to the Crossroads: On the Trail of the 2008 US Election - Guy Rundle (Penguin)
Poetry
The Golden Bird - Richard Adamson (Black Inc)
True Thoughts - Pam Brown (Salt Publishing)
Divine Comedy - John Kinsella (University of Queensland Press)
Fire Season - Kate Middleton (Giramondo)
Better than God - Peter Porter (Picador)
The winners of the awards will be announced on Friday August 21st during the Melbourne Writers' Festival.
