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 […]
Thank you to all the wonderful interviewers who shared the launch of A Great Act of Love with me through October. We began with Mel Kembrey in Hobart for the offical Tasmanian launch, then moved to Kate Evans in Sydney and Brisbane, Michaela Kalowski in Sydney, Jason Steger at Queenscliff, Sarah MacDonald at Avalon, Caro […]
Murder, theft, reinvention and redemption – a novel of family, legacy and love. Listen to Heather talk about ‘A Great Act of Love’ on Radio National with Claire Nichols. Read Helen Elliott’s review in The Age. Photograph by Sarah Enticknap.
Just when you thought you’d escaped a possible future, it’s back – in this beautiful new design. Family, intrigue, politics, globalism and the rare beauty of a remote home … Described as ‘more a hand grenade than a book’ by Rohan Wilson in The Australian – here is Tasmania on the world stage … while […]
Newly released and in bookstores now! My first novel White Heart … published in 1999 and out of print for many years – but now in this beautiful edition. A novel of the magic of childhood and the poignant transition to adulthood for Farley Willow and her brother Ambrose. While Ambrose searches for evidence of […]
