Stella Prize Longlist Walkthrough

[@tanyam6197]

I really appreciate this. As a fellow Aussie, I love the Stella prize. I’ve only read one so far this year. Bad art mother. I loved it. Remember you can always ask your library to purchase titles, especially given they are on this list. Thank you for covering the prize.

[@sabinelipinska8614]

Couldn´t turn up the volume, unfortunately!

[@kimswhims8435]

I'm working my way through the list too, The Furies I read in one sitting, it's not really my sort of book but it's exceptionally well done and so compelling. I'm part way through Hydra and loving that too, paused it due to some other library books having jumped in the way so I need to finish those before they are due. I've thought all the ones I've read so far are brilliant, perhaps Jack of Hearts is the weakest in a literary sense but it's an important story and worthy to include it for that reason, it's also a short read, so won't take up too much of anyone's reading time. The indigenous service peoples experience of war is different because how they were treated at home was different to other service people. War service was sometimes an equaliser. If you listen to Conversations with Richard Fidler the authors spoke on there and it was a really interesting conversation. All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien is the one that I think overseas readers will find easiest to get and it's the one I'm recommending they read, she lives in the USA, it's a great story too. Multiple POV, seamlessly done. It won the 2023 Indie Prize for fiction last night. Iris is a great audiobook too, it's really interesting hearing the way people spoke back then. It's well researched in that era's spoken language. Iris was a minor crim when compared with Tilly Devine etc but it was one of my favourite reads last year.