Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is the overall winner of the second annual Indie Book of the Year.
The Indie Award, organised by the Leading Edge Books buying group, is for an Australian work chosen and voted for by independent booksellers around Australia.
‘Australia's independent bookshops have fallen in love with Craig Silvey and the colourful cast of characters from his breakout novel,' said Leading Edge Books general manager Jayne Wasmuth. ‘There was absolutely no doubt, this book was the clear winner among indies as the Book of the Year for 2009.'
'We had very strong contenders in Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man(Non Fiction), Sonia Orchard's The Virtuoso (Debut Fiction) and Sally Murphy and Heather Potter's Pearl Vesus the World (Children's Book). But it was our Fiction category winner--Jasper Jones--that quickly took the lead as the votes came in,' said Wasmuth.
