Barry Nicholls – Author and ABC journalist – oh, and sports fanatic!
- Clarence Darrow – The attorney of the damnedby John Farrell
- When the Garden was Eden; Clyde, The Captain, Dollar Bill and the glory days of the New York Knicks by Harvey Araton
- An Eye for Eternity – the life of Manning Clarke by Mark McKenna
- Franklin and Eleanor and Extraordinary marriage by Hazel Rowley
- Midnight in Peking by Paul French
Karen Viggers – Author of The Stranding and The Lightkeepers Wife
- Foal’s Breadby Gillian Mears
- The Life by Malcolm Knox
- The Roving Party by Rowan Wilson
- Half of the Human Race by Anthony Quinn
- The White Earth by Andrew Magahan
My picks for 2011
- The Drop and The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
- A Changing Land by Nicole Alexander
- The Forgotten Son by Diane Chamberlin
- Golden Earrings by Belinda Alexandra
- Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs