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Jan 20, 2025 | 
womensprize.com | Carol Diggory Shields |Kate Grenville |Sheila Heti |Rachel Elliott
Winner of the 1998 Women’s Prize for FictionIt’s easy to feel adrift at this time of year, with the return to work after the holidays and dreary weather making life feel like a maze. Larry Weller’s whole life feels like a labyrinth, with his job, wife, and passion all coming to him through coincidence or mistake.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Isabella Hammad |Kate Grenville |Noreen Masud
Brotherless Nightby V. V. Ganeshananthan Find out more Brotherless Night by V. V. GaneshananthanIn Brotherless Night, we follow the journey of aspiring doctor Sashi as she is torn apart from her four brothers in the midst of a vicious civil war. Write some journal entries as one of Sashi’s brothers. What are his private thoughts about the civil war, about their family relationships, about the politics in Sri Lanka? What are his hopes and fears?
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
blackincbooks.com.au | Kate Grenville
What does it mean to be on land taken from others? ‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on the Hawkesbury River.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Anne Enright |Kate Grenville |Isabella Hammad
What were you looking for when you were putting together the six-novel shortlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction? We weren’t looking for anything in particular, other than the Women’s Prize criteria: excellence, originality, and accessibility. All of those things can come in different forms. The longlist was very varied, so it was incredibly difficult to get down to a shortlist of six. Each of these books is a gem in its own particular way.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
changetheworldwithwords.substack.com | Kate Grenville |Karen Banes
If there’s one way to dilute your writing, your message, and your whole personality it’s trying to produce writing that appeals to everyone. “I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” — Herbert Bayard SwopeI used to aim to do this.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
goodreadingmagazine.com.au | Kate Grenville |Isabella Hammad |Claire Kilroy
The shortlisted authors and books for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The list was whittled down from a longlist of 16.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Anne Enright |V. V. Ganeshananthan |Kate Grenville |Isabella Hammad
We wake up this morning to the exciting news of the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist announcement. The shortlist for the Non-Fiction prize was announced last month and we now know the six books still in with a chance of being crowned Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. In it's 29th year and sponsored by Baileys and Audible the Women's Prize for Fiction celebrates outstanding, ambitious and original fiction written in English by women from around the world.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
newidea.com.au | Colin Wood |Walter Isaacson |Kate Grenville
From November 20 to November 30, Australia's home of books, Booktopia, will be having one of their biggest sales of the year!Offering huge savings for Aussie bargain hunters, Booktopia's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals with get you up to 70% off the RRP of thousands of books. WATCH NOW: Books to read if you love romantic comedies. Article continues after video.
Black Friday is officially on November 24.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Kate Grenville
We're at Kate Grenville’s house. I first met Kate nearly 20 years ago as a junior publicist. I got to trail along behind her as she toured to promote her best-selling novel The Secret River. I’d carry snacks in one hand, sticky notes for signing queues in the other. I already revered her as a writer – Idea of Perfection was one of my favourite novels – so it was an exercise in pretending to be a professional while privately losing my mind at being around a literary hero.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Kate Grenville |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly
I was a shy teenager and Mum had to propel me out the door to the few social opportunities my 1960s milieu offered. When she said “But you never know who you might meet”, of course, being a teenager, I rolled my eyes.
It might be a banal line, but it’s served me well. For a start, it’s how I met the man I married, the father of my children, the good companion of happy years. Instead of saying no when a man I definitely didn’t want invited me to a book launch, I said yes.
