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The Free State Provincial Library Service provides library services throughout the Free State province of South Africa.

PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS

2011

Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

2011

JM Coetzee

Summertime

2010

Mandla Langa

The Lost Colours of the Chameleon

2010

Shannon Burke

Black Flies

2010

Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture

2008

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

The Wizard of the Crow

2008

Geling Yan

The Uninvited

2008

Robert Harris

Imperium

2007

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

2007

Dan Jacobson

All For Love

2007

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Desertion

2006

Ward Just

An Unfinished Season

2006

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas

2006

Roddy Doyle

Oh, Play That Thing

2006

Péter Esterházy

Celestial Harmonies

2005

Graham Swift

The Light of Day

2005

Dexter Petley

White Lies

2005

Marguerite Poland

Recessional for Grace

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