Trent Dalton sweeps the pool in the Indie Awards for his book Love Stories. Photo by Russell Shakespeare.
Last night, Australian independent booksellers awarded Love Stories by Trent Dalton two awards, naming it the Non-fiction Award winner and also crowning it their Book of the Year.
The book’s premise was simple: over the course of two months and armed only with an Olivetti typewriter, Dalton accosted strangers on a street in Brisbane to solicit tales of the many vagaries and permutations of love.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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