Mears’ novel was selected from a shortlist of seven books. The other shortlisted books were: The Taste of River Water (Cate Kennedy, Scribe), An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Mark McKenna, Miegenyah Press), Bite Your Tongue (Francesca Rendle-Short, Spinifex), End of the Night Girl (Amy Matthews, Wakefield Press), Alexander Macleay: from Scotland to Sydney (Derelie Cherry, Paradise Publishers) and The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a Secret History of Australian Poetry (David Brooks, UQP).
Foal’s Bread won this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Age Book of the Year fiction prize and the ALS Gold Medal. Mears’ novel was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Kibble Literary Award and the Barbara Jefferis Award.
more at --
http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/DetailPage.aspx?type=item&id=25502
review --
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/foals-bread-gillian-mears-review
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/foal27s-bread2c-part-2/4303272
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