Awards Season: Stella Prize x Women's Prize 2025

Stella is a major voice for gender equality and cultural change in Australian literature. Founded in 2012, the organisation’s flagship program is the annual Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing.

The Women's Prize Trust enriches society by creating equitable opportunities for women in the world of books and beyond. The Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction are among the most successful, influential and popular literary prizes in the world, championing and amplifying women's voices.

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Awards Season: Stella Prize x Women's Prize 2025

Stella is a major voice for gender equality and cultural change in Australian literature. Founded in 2012, the organisation’s flagship program is the annual Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing.

The Women's Prize Trust enriches society by creating equitable opportunities for women in the world of books and beyond. The Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction are among the most successful, influential and popular literary prizes in the world, championing and amplifying women's voices.

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Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Tan, Cher
Paper Book
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we' d arrive at it if we kick around long enough.Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren'...
Fundamentally
Younis, Nussaibah
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMAN IN PRINT PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD AND PUBLISHED NOVEL AWARD 'A NEW NAME TO WATCH OUT FOR' THE TIMES 'THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR' STYLIST 'ELECTRIC' GUARDIAN ...
The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane.
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL * WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE<...
The Thinning
Simpson, Inga.
Paper Book
A powerful literary page-turner about two young people in a race against time to reach a monumental solar eclipse, from famed Australian novelist Inga Simpson'We haven't always lived like this . . .' Kris grew up by an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the...
The Burrow
Cheng, Melanie.
Paper Book
In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier''s Literary Award-winner Melanie Cheng has created this year''s literary masterpiece. Amy, Jin and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
Naag Mountain
Anjali, Manisha.
Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and exploited...
Private revolutions : coming of age in a new China
Yang, Yuan
Paper Book
THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025 'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE 'Private Revolutions could be...
Rapture
Maguire, Emily.
Paper Book
An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.
Cactus pear for my beloved
Sabawi, Samah
Paper Book
Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling....
Always will be
Saunders, Mykaela.
Paper Book
In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the...
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia
Chingaipe, Santilla
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards, The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction The story of Australia's Black convicts has been all but...
A Language of Limbs
Hardcastle, Dylin.
Paper Book
One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 "The prose is textured, viscous almost, an ooze of sweet honey shot through with golden light . . . A Language of Limbs is a novel of (impeccable) vibes and mood, a gay hymnal written from inside the guts of the two protagonists...
Theory and practice
De kretser, Michelle.
It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students--and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her...
Black witness : the power of Indigenous media
McQuire, Amy
Paper Book
Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was 17 years old. Over the past two decades, she has reported on most of the key events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including numerous deaths in custody, the Palm Island uprising, the Bowraville murders and the...
Translations
Abdu, Jumaana.
Paper Book
Amid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural New South Wales to make a new life. Aliyah manages to secure a run-down property and hires a farmhand, Shep, an extremely private Palestinian man and the region's imam. During a storm, she drives past...
Dream count : a novel
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A publishing event...
Crooked Seeds
Jennings, Karen.
In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her family's former home, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions about her brother, and...
A little trickerie
Pike, Rosanna
Paper Book
Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the Big Man's rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone. As...
Amma
de Silva, Saraid.
Paper Book
Good girl
Aber, Aria
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025** **A Time Book of the Year 2025** A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs...
Birding
Ruane, Rose
Paper Book
'A beautiful book full of stark truths... Lyrical and evocative, highly recommended' Evie King, author of ASHES TO ADMIN 'Beautifully written' Daily Mail '[An] empathetic, emotional reckoning' Mail on Sunday...
All fours
July, Miranda
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE NEW YORKER &...
Tell Me Everything
Strout, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a "stunner" (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. "Tell Me Everything...
The dream hotel
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 * * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 * 'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future' JENNIFER EGAN'So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and...
The Persians
Mahloudji, Sanam.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize * Named a Most Anticipated Book by Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, The BBC, Daily Mail (London), and more A darkly funny, life-affirming "joy of a debut novel" (David Mitchell) that follows five women from three...
The safekeep : a novel
Wouden, Yael van der
Paper Book
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE * * WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION * * WINNER OF THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION * Shortlisted for the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize and Aspen Words Literary Prize * A Best Book...
The artist
Steeds, Lucy
Paper Book
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2026 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A TELEGRAPH AND SUNDAY TIME<...
Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking age
Barraclough, Eleanor
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, from mighty leaders to rebellious teenagers, told through their runes and ruins, games and combs,...
A thousand threads
Cherry, Neneh
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Intoxicating . . . Seductive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Fabulous' VOGUE Top of the Pops,...
The story of a heart
Clarke, Rachel (Physician)
Raising hare
Dalton, Chloe
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY...
Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
Miller, Lulu
Agent Zo: ; The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
Mulley, Clare.
Paper Book
'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Clare Mulley tells the tale of the remarkable Elzbieta Zawacka with flare, passion and insight' James Holland'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie RubenholdThis is the incredible story of Elzbieta...
Wild Thing : A Life of Paul Gauguin
Prideaux, Sue
Paper Book
Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this gorgeously illustrated...
What the wild sea can be : the future of the world's ocean
Scales, Helen
Paper Book
The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world's ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of the abundant life within in No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen...
Tracker
Paper Book
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. ...
Somewhere else
Daiches, Jenni.
Ebook
'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH About the bookRosa...
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisín
Paper Book
Winner of the 2025 Irish Book Awards, Novel of the Year Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction From an unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. For...
The eagle and the hart : the tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
Castor, Helen
Paper Book
From an acclaimed historian comes an epic tale of power and betrayal: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose tumultuous reigns shaped the course of English history. Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months apart, were...
Ootlin : a memoir
Fagan, Jenni
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non Fiction 2025 'Extraordinary and uplifting' OBSERVER 'A triumphant tale of survival' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An extraordinary book' LITERARY REVIEW 'Inspirational...
By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land
Nagle, Rebecca
Paper Book
"No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven't heard of into a legal thriller." --New York Times Book Review NATIONAL...
The peepshow : the murders at 10 Rillington Place
Summerscale, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book * A New York Times Review Editors' Choice * Named a Best Book of the year by FT * Nominated for the Women's prize for nonfiction * Winner of the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction "A trove of thrilling...
Sister in law : fighting for justice in a legal system designed by men
Wistrich, Harriet
Paper Book
For more than quarter of a century Harriet Wistrich has fought the corner of people from all walks of life let down by our justice system. When Sally Challen won her appeal to overturn her conviction for the murder of her coercively controlling husband, it was with...
Tracker
Wright, Alexis.
Paper Book
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. ...
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