Colin Roderick Award Winners

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Winners

	On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong 4.20 avg rating — 995 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	Extinctions by Josephine Wilson 3.68 avg rating — 1,861 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones 3.41 avg rating — 573 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall: A Documentary by Michael Wilding 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	Eldershaw by Stephen Edgar 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay (Goodreads Author) 3.41 avg rating — 2,199 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally 3.66 avg rating — 4,363 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears 3.77 avg rating — 1,397 ratings Colin Roderick Award (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
	Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm by Karen Kissane 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2010)	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 Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent by Michael Cathcart 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2009)	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
	Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2008)	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
	Jamaica by Malcolm Knox 3.28 avg rating — 69 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2007)	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
	Careless by Deborah Robertson 3.39 avg rating — 238 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2006)	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 Broken Shore (Broken Shore #1) by Peter Temple 3.85 avg rating — 6,362 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2005)	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 Turning by Tim Winton 4.01 avg rating — 5,307 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2004)	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 Tyrant's Novel by Tom Keneally 3.41 avg rating — 189 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2003)	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
	Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM by Don Watson 4.28 avg rating — 437 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2002)	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
	Rose Boys by Peter Rose 3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2001)	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
	True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 3.83 avg rating — 21,875 ratings Colin Roderick Award (2000)	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
	Out of Ireland by Christopher J. Koch 3.93 avg rating — 215 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1999)	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
	And So Forth by Robert Dessaix 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1998)	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
	A Nation at War: Australian Politics, Society and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War 1965–1975 by Peter G. Edwards 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1997)	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
	Diaries by Judy Cassab 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1995)	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 Scandalous Penton by Patrick Buckridge 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1994)	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
	Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered by Cassandra Pybus 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1993)	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
	A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park 4.06 avg rating — 278 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1992)	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
	Struggle Of Memory by Joan Dugdale 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1991)	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 Sixpenny Soldier by Roland Griffiths-Marsh 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1990)	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
	John Bishop: A Life for Music by Christopher Symons 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1989)	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
	Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 3.73 avg rating — 20,680 ratings Colin Roderick Award (1988)	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