Kate Grenville talks to Ashley Hay about her latest novel, The Lieutenant, where she once again visits the period of white Australian settlement to create her characters Daniel Rooke, a First Fleet soldier and astronomer, and Tagaran, a young Aboriginal girl he befriends.
KATE GRENVILLE is one of Australia’s finest writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River has been published in more than 20 countries. It won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. The Idea of Perfection won the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001. Kate's other award-winning novels such as Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History have become modern classics. Her latest novel is The Lieutenant.
ASHLEY HAY (INTERSTATE) Ashley Hay is the author of four books of non-fiction: The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron, Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions and two other collaborations with the photographer Robyn Stacey titled Herbarium and Museum. Ashley also writes essays, short stories and journalism. A former literary editor of the Bulletin, her writing has appeared in The Monthly, The Independent Monthly, Best Australian Essays and Australian Greats. She has just completed her first novel, The Body in the Clouds.
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