I’m keeping my 2024 Stella Prize reviews brief, otherwise I simply won’t get through them before the shortlist is announced on April 4.
Next on my list was Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, which tells two Indigenous stories set five generations apart. One story is set at the peak of colonial unrest, when ‘saltwater people’ still outnumber the British, and the other in the present, when a woman and her centenarian grandmother, clash over the meaning of legacy. Continue reading
The 2024 Stella Prize longlist has been announced (I picked two – my worst result yet): Continue reading
01. The 2019 Miles Franklin Award goes to Melissa Lucashenko for her novel, Too Much Lip. Check out Lisa and Sue’s reviews.
02. This job in Maldives has come up again… I’m thinking I’ll apply in seven years (when my kids have finished school) – it can be my middle-aged gap year… Continue reading
Do I dare make a prediction? I’ve been woefully wrong the last few years… Continue reading
Happy International Women’s Day everyone and hooray for the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist. Continue reading
I was at a school information night tonight, surreptitiously looking at Twitter for the announcement of the 2019 Stella Prize longlist.
And as the books were announced I had to focus on VCE assessment and ‘good study habits’ rather than sending congratulations messages to lovely authors (go Jenny, you little ripper!); hitting my library’s online reservation system; and marking books on Goodreads… I’m home now and I’m ready to start reading. Continue reading
The Stella Prize 2019 longlist will be announced tonight.
The longlist is made up of twelve books, usually a mix of fiction and non-fiction, memoirs and short stories (all must have been published in 2018). Continue reading