The Sharpe Report – 10 October 2025

• The Nature Writing Prize shortlist has been revealed for the year. See here for more information: https://islandmag.com/literary-arts-news/nature-writing-prize-shortlist-announcement
• Australian Author Helen Garner’s book has been shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction in the UK.
• Better Reading has announced their Top 100 reads for the year. For the full list visit their website.

Books in the Media

National

• Chosen Family / Madeleine Gray (Fiction)
• Clint / Shawn Levy (Biography)
• Unfinished Revolution / Virginia Haussegger (Non-Fiction)
• Seed / Bri Lee (Fiction)

ACT

• 07 Days / Kamala Harris (Memoir)
• Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to find joy in 100 recipes / Helen Goh (Cookbook)
• Guts / Melissa Leong (Memoir)
• Left Behind / Martine Kropkowski (Fiction)
• Legacy / Chris Hammer (Fiction)
• Playtime / Emily Gallagher (Australian History)
• The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done / Clare Stephens (Fiction)

NSW

• How Christians Can Succeed Today / Greg Sheridan (Christian)
• Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds / Mark Bo, Ivan Franceschini & Ling Li (Non-Fiction)
• Will There Ever Be Another You / Patricia Lockwood (Fiction)
• The World Goes On / László Krasznahorkai (Short Stories)

QLD + SA

• Australia: A History / Tony Abbott (Australian History)
• Gravity Let Me Go / Trent Dalton (Fiction)

TAS

• A Guardian and a Thief / Megha Majumdar (Fiction)
• Confessions of a Minor Poet / Phil Brown (Non-Fiction)
• Mischance Creek / Garry Disher (Fiction)
• Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping / Craig Silvey (Children’s Fiction)

VIC

• How Christians Can Succeed Today / Greg Sheridan (Christian)
• Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds / Mark Bo, Ivan Franceschini & Ling Li (Non-Fiction)
• Will There Ever Be Another You / Patricia Lockwood (Fiction)
• The World Goes On / László Krasznahorkai (Short Stories)
• Australia: A History / Tony Abbott (Australian History)
• Gravity Let Me Go / Trent Dalton (Fiction)

*Content gathered from Books+Publishing