New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for fiction for The Secret River 2006 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Community Relations Commission Award for The Secret River 2021 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for fiction for A Room Made of Leaves Shortlisted 2006 – The Secret River – Miles Franklin Award and the Man Booker Prize 2021 – A Room Made of Leaves – Walter Scott Prize 2021 – Australian Book Industry Awards, Literary fiction book of the year for A Room Made of Leaves Bibliography Novels Dreamhouse (1986), Joan Makes History: A Novel (1988), Dark Places (1994), (alternative title: Albion's Story) The Idea of Perfection (1999) The Lieutenant (2008) Sarah Thornhill, sequel to The Secret River, (2011) A Room Made of Leaves (2020) Short fiction Collections Bearded Ladies:Stories (1984) Stories Non-fiction The Writing Book: A Manual for Fiction Writers (1990), Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written (1993), with Woolfe, Sue Writing from Start to Finish: a Six-Step Guide (2001) Searching for the Secret River (2006), One Life: My Mother's Story (2015), The Case Against Fragrance (2017), . Notes References Henderson, Gerard (2008), "A career upon life's pendulum: Ken Gee, 1915–2008" (Obituary), published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 2008-03-19, p. 22 Whitlock, Gillian (ed.) (1989), Eight Voices of the Eighties: Stories, Journalism and Criticism by Australian Women Writers, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press External links Kate Grenville – Allen and Unwin Book Publishers Podcast of Kate Grenville discussing The Secret River on the BBC's World Book Club VIDEO: Kate Grenville at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas, talking about Artists, Writers and Climate Change on ABC Fora Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 1 October 2008. MP3 of Interview with Kate Grenville speaking about her book The Idea of Perfection from Radio 3RRR AustLit Resource Author Entry. Kate Grenville's site by Canongate Online interview from CBC Words at Large Kate Grenville on ABC Drive, talking about her book The Case Against Fragrance 1950 births Living people 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian writers Australian feminist writers Australian people of English descent Australian women novelists Granta people Officers of the Order of Australia University of Sydney alumni University of Technology Sydney alumni Writers from Sydney University of Colorado alumni