New Books from Some Great
Australian Female Authors
The 2019 Stella Prize Shortlist
Exploded View
Celebrating great books by Australian women
Set at the close of the
1970s Exploded View is a
revelatory interrogation
of Australian girlhood.
Must a girl always be
a part – how can she
become a whole? A fearless and masterful new
novel from the author of Mateship with Birds.
Carrie Tiffany
RRP $29.99
Fiona McIntosh
RRP $32.99
‘The Erratics
grabbed me by
the throat and
never let go ... I
loved it.’
DCI Jack Hawksworth is
back, working on a high-
profile case breaking
in London. From seedy
back streets to the
dangerous frontiers of
modern medicine this is
a gripping crime thriller.
Islands
Peggy Frew
RRP $29.99
A spellbinding novel
in the tradition of Helen
Garner, Charlotte Wood
and Georgia Blain,
Islands is a riveting and
brilliant portrait of a
family in crisis by the talented author of House
of Sticks and Hope Farm.
The Place on
Dalhousie
Melina Marchetta
RRP $32.99
Caroline Baum
Winner announced 9 April 2019
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Room for a
Stranger
Melanie Cheng
RRP $29.99
Room for a Stranger is a
moving portrait of an improbable friendship and
multicultural Australia more broadly, from the
winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary
Award for Fiction.
The Glad Shout
From the author of
Looking for Alibrandi
comes this perfectly crafted
novel about families,
relationships and the true
nature of belonging. It’s
an unforgettable story about losing and finding
love and the interconnectedness of lives.
Due
APRIL
Beautiful Death
Alice Robinson
RRP $32.99
The Glad Shout is an
extraordinary novel of
rare depth and texture.
Told in a starkly visual and
compelling narrative, this
is a deeply moving homage
to motherhood and the
struggles faced by women in difficult times.
Fled
Meg Keneally
RRP $29.99
Highway robber.
Convict. Runaway.
Mother… She will do
anything for freedom,
but at what cost? Meg Keneally’s debut solo
novel is an epic historical adventure based on
the extraordinary life of convict Mary Bryant.
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The Lily in
the Snow
Jackie French
RRP $29.99
The third book in the Miss
Lily series, The Lily in the
Snow is a story filled with
secrets. It also explores the
strength of friendship and
the changing face of
women in this new Europe.
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Heart of the Grass Tree
Molly Murn | RRP $32.99
When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies,
Pearl returns to Kangaroo Island. As she
begins to pull together the scraps Nell
left behind she unearths a connection
to the island’s early history, of the early
European sealers and their contact with
the Ngarrindjeri people. This is an exquisite
and searing story.
Molly Murn is a South Australian author
and poet. Molly also works as a bookseller
at Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills.
Heart of the Grass Tree, is her first novel.
She loves to tango, read, walk, listen to
records, and spend time in wild places.