National Biography Award

Mr Stuart's Track John Bailey
No Time for Dances Gillian Bouras
The Beginner's Guide to Winning a Nobel Prize Peter Doherty
Margaret Olley: Far from a Still Life Meg Stewart

The Idea of Home:
Autobiographical Essays
John Hughes

Curtin's Gift John K. Edwards
Balanda Mary Ellen Jordan
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby William McInnes
Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life Alasdair McGregor

The Boy in the Green Suit
Robert Hillman

Inside Out (An Autobiography) Robert Adamson
Maos Last Dancer Li Cunxin
Midnight Water Gaylene Perry
The Sparrow Garden Peter Skrzynecki

Broken Song
Barry Hill

Mussolini Richard Bosworth
Life of Matthew Flinders Miriam Estensen
Secrets and Spies Mara Moustafine
James Stirling Pamela Statham-Drew
Out of Darkness Zoltan Torey

Rose Boys
Peter Rose

Recollections of a bleeding heart
Don Watson

A certain style:
Beatrice Davis, a literary life
Jacqueline Kent

M, A biography of European painter Caravaggio
Peter Robb

Dreamtime Alice: A memoir

Mandy Sayer