The Stella Prize Longlist 2019

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The Longlist for The Sella Prize was announced last night! And there are some amazing books listed.

For those of you who don’t know, The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing, and who are also champions of cultural change. Both fiction and non fiction books are eligible for entry.  The prize is named after one of Australia’s most iconic writers, Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin. She published her work under the name Miles Franklin. The first Stella award was given in 2013.

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Blood Queen

Blood Queen

 

Author: Joanna Courtney

Publisher: Piatkus Books

First Published: 6 September 2018

Rating: 5 stars

 

 

“My heart was not forged simply but it was forged strong and it beat out a rhythm I can never regret. I did not ask to be queen but neither did I refuse. I made my destiny and I followed it all across Alba to its throne and its tomb. I was Lady Macbeth and I was Queen and I can only hope that in some small way Alba was richer for it.”

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