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With the many Australian literary awards, Gillian Appleton says that ' [t]he average reader could be forgiven for feeling a little confused - particularly when as sometimes happens, a book wins one major award but fails even to be shortlisted for others ... [and] wonder about the people and the processed deciding the winner.'