Heather Rose is the award winning Australian author of eight novels and a celebrated memoir.

Books

One of Australia’s most diverse writers of literature ...

Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

'Funny, devastating, miraculous and delightful. This is an extraordinary life story, extraordinarily told.' Bri Lee

Bruny

How far would your government go?

The Museum of Modern Love

It is 2010. Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife who has asked him to keep one devastating promise.

The River Wife

A story of belonging is always a story of losing.

The Butterfly Man

Today I was dangerous. I wanted to confess. I wanted to tell her stories I had held back all these years.

White Heart

My brother Ambrose is a tiger hunter. He is a man beyond the weather with his breath in the sky and his heart on the track ahead.

Heartbreaking and beautiful, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a love story brimming with courage and joy against all odds, one that will bring wonder, light and comfort to all who read it.”

Better Reading

Her writing has a vibrant energy, which intensifies and then calms like the widening flow of a river.”

Sydney Morning Herald

This award-winning writer’s eclectic memoir teems with ghosts and gratitude.”

Arts Hub

Rose has mastered the contemporary realist novel. Is there nothing she cannot do with her words and skilled imagination? No vignette or internal dialogue is here that doesn’t enhance the complex tale she is making.”

Helen Elliot, The Age

Rose’s lyrical melding … is masterful. Intriguing as the real-life events of the Lucan story are, Rose transforms it into something far more substantial.”

The Weekend Australian

News & Events

News & reviews

The Launch – Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

At Last! The launch video is here. Please enjoy. It’s been such a busy year so apologies for the long delay in posting this. Also because you may not have an hour, I’ve created 4 short ‘chapters’ with The Speeches, The Interview, The Thank Yous and The People – so you can choose the section […]

Byron Bay Writers Festival

Thank you Byron Bay for the most wonderful festival. Beautiful accomodation at Elements of Byron. Brilliant festival team and festival venue. Awesome audiences! It was my first time at Byron Bay Writer’s Festival and it was the final in the book tour for Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here that began in December 2022! It’s been […]

Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival 2023

I am delighted to be attending Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival in June. I’ll be in conversation about Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here with the wonderful Mel Kembrey on Saturday June 10th and I’ll be interviewing the extraordinary Heather Mitchell and Akuch Kuol Anyieth about Life and Words on Sunday June 11th. Plus a surprise […]

Melbourne Writers Festival – May 7th

I’ll be in conversation with Jacinta Parsons talking about Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here and the writing life with fellow author Kate Legge (Infidelity and Other Affairs) on Sunday, May 7th at the State Library of Victoria. Come along! Update: So sorry to be unable to attend this one due to unforseen circumstances. Thank you […]