{"id":2331,"date":"2019-09-12T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2022-02-18T09:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T09:39:19","slug":"awards-wrap-up-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2019\/09\/12\/2331\/awards-wrap-up-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalist Hamish McDonald\u2019s self-published book Reasonable Doubt: Spies, police and the Croatian Six<\/em> was nominated for two awards in August: the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival\u2019s Danger Prize<\/a> (which was won<\/a> by the podcast The Teacher\u2019s Pet<\/em>), and the Waverley Library\u2019s $20,000 Nib Literary Award<\/a>, which recognises the role of research in fiction and nonfiction. McDonald\u2019s book is an exploration of a 1979 Sydney police raid of a young Croation migrant family and the subsequent trial\u2014a saga involving the Yugoslav secret police, ASIO and Sydney\u2019s underbelly, and which McDonald calls \u2018Australia\u2019s biggest miscarriage of justice\u2019.<\/p>\n

Aislinn Kearns was among the winners at the 2019 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards<\/a>\u2014known as the Ruby Awards\u2014which were announced on 10 August at the RWA conference in Melbourne. Kearns\u2019 novel Undercover Fighter\u00ad <\/em>is the third book in her \u2018Underground Fighters\u2019 series of books, set in the world of illegal cage fight matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalist Hamish McDonald\u2019s self-published book Reasonable Doubt: Spies, police and the Croatian Six was nominated for two awards in August: the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival\u2019s Danger Prize (which was won by the podcast The Teacher\u2019s Pet), and the Waverley Library\u2019s $20,000 Nib Literary Award, which recognises the role of research in fiction and nonfiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}