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    February 2015

    Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 2: Emily Bitto’s The Strays

    Each weekday between now and the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist on March 12, we’ll be turning the Stella spotlight on a different longlisted author and their book. Today’s book is The Strays by Emily Bitto.
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    February 2015

    Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 1: Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Foreign Soil

    Each weekday between now and the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist on March 12, we’ll be turning the Stella spotlight on a different longlisted author and their book. Today’s book is Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
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    February 2015

    Announcing the 2015 Stella Prize longlist

    The Stella Prize is delighted to announce the 2015 Stella Prize longlist.
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    December 2014

    Day 12: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

    Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat — women who made Eureka a story for us all.
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    December 2014

    Day 11: The Swan Book

    Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people. The energy and humour in Wright’s writing finds hope in the bleakest situations.
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    December 2014

    Day 9: Boy, Lost

    Kristina Olsson’s Boy, Lost is the story of a family, the cascade of grief and guilt through generations, and the endurance of memory and faith.
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    December 2014

    Day 8: The Night Guest

    Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest is a mesmerising debut novel about love, dependence, and the fear that the things you know best can become the things you’re least certain about.
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    December 2014

    Day 7: Night Games

    Both a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of first-person narrative journalism, Anna Krien’s Night Games is a breakthrough book by one of the leading young lights of Australian writing.
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    December 2014

    Day 6: Burial Rites

    Hannah Kent’s debut novel Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom.
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    December 2014

    Day 5: Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John

    Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John is the first, and the definitive, biography of one of Australia’s most significant writers.
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    December 2014

    Day 4: All the Birds, Singing

    Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman’s present comes from a terrible past.
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    December 2014

    Day 10: Moving Among Strangers

    Gabrielle Carey’s family memoir Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and my family is a celebration of one of Australia’s most enigmatic and visionary writers, and a tale of two literary lives defined by storytelling and secrets.