Stella Prize
Awarded for the first time in 2013, the Stella Prize is now a major literary award in celebration of Austalian women's fiction and non-fiction writing.
The Stella Prize winner is presented with $50,000, to guarantee them finanical independence while continuing their career as an author.
Shop the nominees below.
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work by Bernadette Brennan
$40.00 NZD
Category: SP 2018
Helen Garner is one of Australia's most important, and some would say, most admired living writers. That admiration is inspired by a sense that she is honest, authentic and fearless in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the ru ...Show more
An Uncertain Grace by Krissy Kneen
$35.00 NZD
Category: SP 2018
‘One of the most radical and insightful writers working in Australian letters today...Just read this. You won’t regret it.’ Overland Some time in the near future, university lecturer Caspar receives a gift from a former student called Liv: a memory stick containing a virtual narrative. Hooked up to a v ...Show more
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
$40.00 NZD
Category: SP 2018
You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the- -and then you wake. This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands undergo operations every day. Anaesthesia has made it ...Show more
Martin Sharp: His life and times by Joyce Morgan
$39.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018 | Series: STELLA LL 2018
Martin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and collaborated with Eric Clapton as he drew rock stars and repr ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
$37.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018
"A gut punch of a book in the style of Le Guin, Atwood, and Butler. Claire G. Coleman's debut novel blazes with truth." -- Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to ru ...Show more
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
$36.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018 | Reading Level: very good
Abandoned by her mother and seldom visited by her unpredictable, violent father, 10-year-old Justine is raised by her grandfather, Pop - a man tormented by visions of war.Through years of poverty and neglect, Justine finds solace in the staggering natural beauty of the nearby Murray River. But when outs ...Show more
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
$29.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018
An extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionar ...Show more
The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe
$18.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018 | Series: STELLA LL 2018
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Stella PrizeSparked by the description of a 'Malay trollope' in W. Somerset Maugham's story, 'The Four Dutchmen', Mirandi Riwoe's novella, The Fish Girl, tells of an Indonesian girl whose life is changed irrevocably when she moves ...Show more
The Green Bell by Paula Keogh
$29.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018
It's 1972 in Canberra. Michael Dransfield is being treated for a drug addiction; Paula Keogh is delusional and grief-stricken. They meet in a psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital and instantly fall in love. Paula recovers a self that she thought was lost; Michael, a radical poet, is caught up in a ...Show more
This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer
$32.99 NZD
Category: SP 2018 | Series: STELLA LL 2018
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short story, poetry, essay, journal, myth and fairy tale. This Water is a collection ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: SP 2018 | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
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