The shortlist for this year's Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced.

The shortlist is as follows:

Marketing Campaign of the Year 2008, in memory of John Cody, sponsored by Random House Australia

• Allen & Unwin for An Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)
• Allen & Unwin for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J K Rowling)
• Hachette Livre Australia for Advance Australia ... Where? (Hugh Mackay)
• Hardie Grant Books for Court in the Middle (Andrew Fraser)
• Penguin Group (Australia) for Girl Stuff (Kaz Cooke)

International Success of the Year 2008, sponsored by Activair

• Hachette Livre Australia for The Arrival (Shaun Tan)
• Hardie Grant Books for Turquoise (Greg & Lucy Malouf)
• New Holland for Where's Bin Laden? (Daniel Lalic)
• Penguin Group (Australia) for Mao's Last Dancer (Li Cunxin)
• Random House Australia for ‘Ranger's Apprentice' (John Flanagan)
• The Text Publishing Company for A Little Rain on Thursday (Matt Rubinstein)

Illustrated Book of the Year 2008

• Alfred Gregory (Alfred Gregory, Lantern)
• Maggie's Harvest (Maggie Beer, Lantern)
• Pier (Greg Doyle, Murdoch Books)
• Secrets of the Red Lantern (Pauline Nguyen, Murdoch Books)
• The Great Gatsby (Niki Greenberg, A&U)

Biography of the Year 2008

• Andrew Johns: The Two of Me (Andrew Johns & Neil Cadigan, HarperSport)
• Arthur Boyd: A Life (Darleen Bungey, A&U)
• Births Deaths Marriages (Georgia Blain, Vintage)
• I Peed on Fellini, (David Stratton, Random House)
• Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants To Do This (Bruce Beresford, Flamingo)

General Nonfiction Book of the Year 2008

• American Journeys (Don Watson, Knopf)
• Girl Stuff (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
• Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election (Mungo MacCallum, Black Inc.)
• Vietnam: The Australian War (Paul Ham, HarperCollins)
• Who Killed Channel 9? (Gerald Stone, Macmillan)

Book of the Year for Younger Children (age range 0 to 8 years) 2008

• Just Shocking! (Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton, Pan)
• Tashi and the Mixed-Up Monster, (Anna & Barbara Fienberg, illustrated by Kim Gamble, A&U)
• The Peasant Prince (Li Cunxin, illustrated by Anne Spudvilas, Viking)
• The Trouble With Dogs! (Bob Graham, Walker Books)
• What Bumosaur is That? (Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton, Macmillan)

Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to14 years) 2008

• Dragon Moon (Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books)
• Ranger's Apprentice 7: Erak's Ransom (John Flanagan, Random House)
• The Key to Rondo (Emily Rodda, Omnibus)
• The Shadow Thief (Alexandra Adornetto, HarperCollins)
• The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame, published by Walker Books)

Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2008

• A Fraction of the Whole, written by Steve Toltz, Hamish Hamilton)
• People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate)
• The Book Thief (Markus Zusak, Picador)
• The Children (Charlotte Wood, A&U)
• The Memory Room (Christopher Koch, Knopf)

General Fiction Book of the Year 2008

• Addition (Toni Jordan, Text)
• Sucked In (Shane Maloney, Text)
• The River Baptists (Belinda Castles, A&U)
• The Six Sacred Stones (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)
• Those Faraday Girls (Monica McInerney, Penguin)

Newcomer of the Year (debut writer) 2008

• A Fraction of the Whole (Steve Toltz, Hamish Hamilton)
• Addition (Toni Jordan, Text)
• People Like Us (Waleed Aly, Picador)
• Secrets of the Red Lantern (Pauline Nguyen, Murdoch Books)
• Van Diemen's Land (James Boyce, Black Inc.)

Book of the Year 2008

• American Journeys (Don Watson, Knopf)
• Girl Stuff (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
• Maggie's Harvest (Maggie Beer, Lantern)
• People of the Book, (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate)
• The Book Thief (Markus Zusak, Picador)

This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

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