Walkley Book Award 2025 longlist announced
Monday, 20 October 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
The works longlisted for the Walkley Book Award are:
- All Women Want (Alyx Gorman, HarperCollins)
- A Bunker in Kyiv (John Lyons, ABC Books)
- The Chairman’s Lounge (Joe Aston, Scribner)
- Great Game On: The Contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy (Geoff Raby, Melbourne University Publishing)
- The Holy and the Broken (Ittay Flescher, HarperCollins)
- Meadow’s Law (Quentin McDermott, ABC Books)
- Mean Streak (Rick Morton, Fourth Estate)
- Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions (Clare Wright, Text).
The shortlist will be announced on 6 November, with the winners to be announced on 27 November.
More information is available on the Walkley Foundation website.
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