 AWARD-WINNING
BOOKS
by Bill Condon
Confessions
In 2010 Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God won the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for young adult fiction.
The short, chiselled chapters ensure that not a word is wasted. Condon is a writer
of considerable craft who eschews the flamboyant in search of deeper truths.
-Judges' comments.
Miss
Wolf and the Porkers
won the Younger Readers category
in the 2001 KOALA prize. (That's Kids Own Australian Literature Awards.)
Everyone thinks the Porker children are perfect. Even Miss Wolf, the
new
librarian at their school. One day she discovers how truly bad they
are, and
the Porkers are in for a shock.
Dogs
was an Honour Book in the Older Readers category
Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards for 2001. Dogs.
Stand
up to them and you might get your head ripped off. Keep running 
away
and you might as well be dead. Two teenage boys and their fathers;
united by a dog - divided by a dog. Love and hate. There's no middle
ground here. Dogs goes for the jugular.
Dogs
is knockdown, get up. It's about growing up male - the hurts, the hates.
It's about accepting the otherness of the other. Not since Kes has a
novel got it so right so succinctly.'- Glyn Parry
No Worries
was an Honour Book in the Older Readers category
Children's Book Council
Book of the Year Awards for 2006.
'It is by turns painful, moving,
hopeful, funny and warm.' - Judges' Report
No Worries was short listed for the Ethel Turner Prize in the NSW Premier's
Awards, 2006.
'This is a story of deep irony
and sadness, relieved by the sparest, lightest touches
of human warmth
with which a boy can magage.
A considerable achievement.
- Judges'
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