2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – South East Asia and South Pacific Regional winners
- Best Book – Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones (New Zealand) – on order, available via BONUS
- Best First Book – Tuvalu by Andrew O’Connor (Australia) – CSU Library
National Book Critics Circle Award (US) winners
- Best fiction – The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai – CSU Library
- Best Nonfiction – Rough Crossing: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama – CSU Library
- Best autobiography – The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist for 2007 was recently announced.
- Beyond the Break by Sandra Hall – on order, CSU Library
- Careless by Deborah Robertson Picador – on order, CSU Library
- Carpentaria by Alexis Wright – CSU Library
- Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones – CSU Library
- Silent Parts by John Charalambous – CSU Library
- Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey Knoph – CSU Library
- The Unexpected Elements of Love by Kate Legge – on order
- The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan – CSU Library
The shortlist will be announced Thursday 19 April and the winner who will receive $42,000 (AUD), will be announced at a gala dinner Thursday 21 June.Check the Library catalogue for location details for these titles.