Summary
Sonya Hartnett’s third novel for adults is utterly compelling, an unflinching and disquieting work from one of Australia’s finest writers.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Golden Boys is an unflinching and utterly compelling novel for adults by Sonya Hartnett, one of Australia’s finest writers.
With their father, there’s always a catch …
Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons ar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143572831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143572830 |
| Author: | Sonya Hartnett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 129mm x 196mm |
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Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett’s work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children.
Her accolades include:
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (for Of A Boy)
- The Age Book of the Year (for Of A Boy)
- Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (for Thursday’s Child)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo, and The Children of the King)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Younger Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo, and The Children of the King)
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (for Surrender)
- Three shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for Of a Boy, Butterfly, and Golden Boys)
- CILIP Carnegie Medal (for The Midnight Zoo)
Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
In 2021, she published her fourth picture book, Blue Flower, illustrated by Gabriel Evans, which was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award.
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