Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Winners

The Douglas Stewart Prize ($40,000) is one of the annual New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, for a prose work other than a work of fiction. Boo ...more

Winners

	Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths 4.32 avg rating — 490 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 25,324 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 139 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski 4.10 avg rating — 6,395 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bush by Don Watson 3.96 avg rating — 496 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 617 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rendezvous With Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America Into the War and Into the World by Michael Fullilove (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 286 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Office: A Hardworking History by Gideon Haigh 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark by Mark McKenna 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs by Malcolm Fraser 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 608 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Home by Tim Winton 3.96 avg rating — 1,911 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann 3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville 4.06 avg rating — 1,714 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nashos' War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In My Mother's Hands by Biff Ward 3.75 avg rating — 150 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change by Iain McCalman 3.78 avg rating — 338 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This House of Grief by Helen Garner 4.05 avg rating — 6,488 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power by Philip G. Dwyer 4.13 avg rating — 133 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation by Alan Atkinson 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1) by David Hunt (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 5,459 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Warne by Gideon Haigh 4.12 avg rating — 544 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler by Peter Butt 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stillways: A Memoir by Steve Bisley 3.90 avg rating — 119 ratings Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Nominee (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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