Categories:

1. Retellings (of fairytale, legends or myth) The Grace Keepers – Kirsty Logan

 

2. A book set in a country starting with the letter S (eg. Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Slovakia) – The Unquiet Dead- Ausma Zehanat Khan – set in Canada and Srebrenica.

 

3. PI Crime (fiction featuring a private investigator) Limbo – Amy Andrews

 

4. A novel published before you were born

 

5.Contemporary romance –  The Sunnyvale Girls  -Fiona Palmer  rural romance.

 

6.Fiction for foodies (fiction featuring food/food related business)

 

7.Microhistory (Non Fiction)

 

 

8.Science Fiction set in space

 

9.Sports (Fiction or Non fiction)

 

10.Featuring diversity – Foreign Soil – Maxine Bebeba Clarke

 

11.Epistolary Fiction (fiction written in the format of letters/emails/diary entries) What She Left – T R Richmond – narrative told by letters, blog posts, diary entries, text messages, emails, f/book entries,  transcription of voice messages etc

 

12.Middle Grade/YA Adventure – Night Bird – Alice Hoffman