November 2015 Roundup: Historical Fiction
19 reviews this month so a lot of us have been busy! And not just Christmas shopping. Many of the reviews are very familiar titles that I have featured over the last few months – The Strays by Emily Bitto, The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks, The Wild Girl and...
Clare Wright wins the 2014 Stella Prize for the Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Congratulations to historian Clare Wright who has won the 2014 Stella Prize with The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, her second book which took ten years to research and write. The winner was announced tonight at a ceremony in Sydney which was MC’d by Caroline Baum and...
History, Writing and Television: An Interview with Clare Wright
Clare Wright’s history of the Ballarat goldfields, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, has been shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize. In this interview with the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge, Wright talks about writing and the place of women in Australian history as well as sharing some of the responses she has had to her book.
