The annual Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.
The Young Adult fiction winner for 2010 was Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God by Bill Condon.
Neil Bridges attends a Catholic boys’ school in which teachers rule with iron fists and thick leather straps. Some crumble under the pressure but Neil toughs it out, just as his Vietnam-bound older brother has done before him. He has to be a man, after all. But at sixteen, how can he be sure of himself when he’s not sure of anything else? He loses a friend and finds another, falls in love and unwittingly treads a path that leads to revenge and possibly murder . . .
Pick up a copy from the Dubbo Branch library today...
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