Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s finest writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River has been published in more than twenty countries. It has received numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
The companion memoir, Searching for the Secret River, was released in 2006 and the sequel, Sarah Thornill, was published in 2011. The Idea of Perfection won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, and her other award-winning novels, which include The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History, have become modern classics.
Kate Grenville appears in The Secret Life of the Novel and An Hour with Kate Grenville
Kathryn Ryan interviews Kate Grenville
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