Thank you to all who participated in, created, taught, volunteered, interviewed and conversed at Newcastle Writer’s Festival, Margaret River Writer’s Festival, Sydney Writer’s Festival, The Island Readers and Writers Festival, Canberra Writers Festival, Words on the Waves and more… It was such a delight to be part of festivals and events across Australia this year […]
MEDIA RELEASE Heather Rose Wins Prestigious Alice Award for Lifetime Contribution to Australian Literature Launceston, Tasmania — 21 September 2026 — Heather Rose has been named the recipient of the 2026 Alice Award, presented on Saturday in Launceston by the Australian Society of Women Writers. The Alice Award is one of Australian literature’s most […]
This weekend I’ll be at Newcastle Writers Festival! Saturday March 28th 10am I’ll be talking about The Writing Life with my two wonderful fellow writers – Hannah Kent (Always Home, Always Homesick, Burial Rights etc) and J.P.Pomare (The Gambler, Seventeen Years Later etc) guided by the one and only Kate Evans from ABC Arts. Tickets […]
Caroline examines a stolen map. And there she finds it, at the edge of the Western Hemisphere, a black mark at the 30th latitude smaller than a flea: Norfolk Island. Her Aunt thinks she’s a fool for wanting to follow her father to the other side of the world. He is no longer the man […]
A young woman with a mysterious past searches for her father—who has committed an unspeakable crime—in an exquisitely lush historical novel set among the champagne vines of 19th-century Australia. Van Diemen’s Land, 1839. A young woman of means arrives in Hobart, Australia, with a boy in her care. Leasing an old cottage next to an […]
