The 2022 winners of the Australian Book Industry Awards were officially announced at a ceremony held at the ICC in Sydney overnight!
With big winners including Diana Reid (Love & Virtue), Corey Tutt (The First Scientists), and Lynette Noni (The Prison Healer), the Aussie bookselling and publishing industry’s night of nights sparkled like never before.
Scroll down to check out all of the 2022 ABIA winners …
Audiobook of the Year
Devotion by Hannah Kent; narrated by Emily Wheaton
Biography Book of the Year
My Adventurous Life by Dick Smith
Book of the Year for Older Children (ages 13+)
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
Book of the Year for Younger Children (ages 7-12)
The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples by Corey Tutt and Blak Douglas (Illustrator)
Children’s Picture Book of the Year (ages 0-6)
Somebody’s Land: Welcome to Our Country by Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing, illustrated by David Hardy
General Fiction Book of the Year
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
General Non-fiction Book of the Year
She’s on the Money by Victoria Devine
Illustrated Book of the Year
Everything I Love to Cook by Neil Perry
International Book of the Year
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Literary Fiction Book of the Year
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year
The Edge of Thirteen by Nova Weetman
The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
Amani Haydar (The Mother Wound)
Publisher of the Year
Penguin Random House
Small Publisher of the Year
University of Queensland Press
Book Retailer of the Year
Harry Hartog
Bookshop of the Year
Avenue Bookstore, Melbourne.
Rising Star of the Year
Emily Hart, Commissioning Editor at Hardie Grant Books.
Congratulations to all of the 2022 ABIA winners!
Find out more about the Australian Book Industry Awards here
Love & Virtue
2022 ABIA Book of the Year
Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular – the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week – a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power.
Initially bonded by their wit and sharp eye for the colleges’ mix of material wealth and moral poverty...
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