Prizes & Awards > The Stella Prize > 2023 Stella Prize Shortlist
The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging. This year's shortlist was drawn from over 200 entries.
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more
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