Indie Book Awards show passion for printed books is alive

By Susan Wyndham
Updated February 3 2015 - 10:13am, first published January 29 2015 - 12:15am
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert
Indie author? Peter Carey features on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards. Photo: Steven Siewert

The Indie Book Awards are the first national awards of the year and perhaps the only ones in which Peter Carey's cynical political satire, Amnesia, will sit on the shortlist with Graeme Simsion's best-selling romantic comedy, The Rosie Effect.