Longlists, shortlists and book recommendations

Last week's Rose Scott Women Writers Festival was wonderful - inspiring, welcoming and varied.  Artistic director, Augusta Supple, did a terrific job combining author talks with soirees and musical performances. On Saturday, I was in conversation with Kate Forsyth who had us all captivated. On Sunday, I did a reading from my novel The Watchful Wife. The other authors in our session included Lauren Aimee Curtis, who has a new novel out: Strangers at the Port.  I loved Lauren's debut novel, Dolores.

In news that made me very happy last week, my novel Running with Ivan has been longlisted in the Children and Young Adult's section of the ARA Historical Novel Prize.

Tomorrow night, it's a double billing at Wollongong Library: I'll be onstage with Susan Duncan, author of the bestselling memoir, Salvation Creek. You can register for the event here.  Wollongong is my hometown and a group of us are going for dinner afterwards -  please let me know if you'd like to join us.

Thursday Book Club is on tomorrow night before we break for the school holidays, returning on 12 October.  Happy reading until then!