Congratulations to Jon Bauer for winning the Indie award for Best Debut Fiction, as voted by Australian independent booksellers.

Other winners were:

Best Fiction, Bereft By Chris Womersley (Scribe)

Book of the Year and Best Non-Fiction, The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do (Allen & Unwin)

Best Children’s Book, Mirror by Jeannie Baker (Walker Books)

As the Australian Independent Bookseller website reports,‘independent booksellers have a well-earned reputation for being the ones to spot the next-big-thing and The Indie Awards is one to watch. Previous Indie Book of the Year winners are Breath by Tim Winton and Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey, which both went on to national and international acclaim.’

Booked Out also has a previous winner in our ranks, Toni Jordan who won Best Debut Fiction in 2008 for Addition.