Author: Hannah Kent
Publisher: Picador Australia
First Published: 26 October 2021
“Love runs through her like a seam of gold. It runs through me, too, we are illuminated.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Picador Australia and Netgalley for sending a copy my way!
Continue reading “Devotion”
Author: Laura Elizabeth Wollett
Publisher: Scribe
First Published: 02 July 2021
“People destroy other people for no reason.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to wonderful people at Scribe for sending a copy my way!
Continue reading “The Newcomer”
Hello,
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.
Author: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Publisher: Scribe
First Published: 30 July 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“This life is the dawn of revolution and she is ready to meet it in a necklace of thorns, sprouting black feathers, adorned with the reddest roses.”
Author: Angela Meyer
Publisher: Ventura Press
First Published: 01 August 2018
Rating: 4 stars
“This water is so clear I can lean over and see myself. I am Narcissus, in love with the image of my suffering, fixed in place and soon to drown.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Ventura Press and NetGalley!
Author: Krissy Kneen
Publisher: Text Publishing
First Published: 31 August 2017
Rating: 5 stars
“I shellfish down into myself, now as I did them when I met her, curling up into the calcium carbonate whorls of me.”
Hello and Happy International Women’s Day!
Today has been a very big day for literary prize. Today we see the announcement of The Women’s Prize longlist along with The Stella Prize shortlist.
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