Heather Rose

Winner of the 2006 Davitt Award for Best Crime Novel On 7 November 1974, a young English nanny named Sandra Rivett was killed in London's West End. Her employer, Lord Lucan, was accused of her murder. It was widely assumed he had mistaken her for his wife. Lord Lucan disappeared the night Sandra Rivett died and has never been

Why is a massive bridge being built to connect the sleepy island of Bruny with the mainland of Tasmania? And why have terrorists blown it up? When the Bruny bridge is bombed, UN troubleshooter Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this is no simple task. Her brother and sister are on...

Winner of the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Why is a massive bridge being built to connect the sleepy island of Bruny with the mainland of Tasmania? And why have terrorists blown it up? When the Bruny bridge is bombed, UN troubleshooter Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this...

Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. 'This is a weirdly beautiful book.' – David Walsh, founder and curator, MONA 'Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.' – Stella Adler 'Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless.'...

Winner of the Stella Prize Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - NSW Premier's Literary Awards Winner of the Margaret Scott Prize - Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes 'This is a weirdly beautiful book.' - David Walsh, founder and curator, MONA 'Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.' - Stella Adler...

'One day love lay down by the river. He slept in a blue patterned shirt and through the afternoon he did not stir but dreamed with the river's song beside him. When he woke he saw me. Love was not the pattern of leaves and the texture of bark, it was not the underbelly of river or the way of...

Caroline will tell the story of how she came to Tasmania, when it was still called Van Diemen's Land, many times. She will cast her inventions into the future. Those who carry them on will call it history, but she will call it her life. Van Diemen's Land, 1839. A young woman of means arrives in Hobart, with a young...

SHORTLISTED - Premier's Prize for Non-fiction, Tasmanian Literary Awards 'Funny, devastating, miraculous, and delightful. This is an extraordinary life story, extraordinarily told.' — Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull '[Rose] takes us to the edge of a volcanic crater of grief, passion and spirituality. Dazzling and devastating.' — Tim Rogers, author of Detours Born on the island of Tasmania, Heather...

Farley Willow and her brother Ambrose grow up on the remote shores of Tasmania with the solitude of beaches, the rise and fall of tides, and their remarkable grandfather, Papa Kempsey. But when Papa dies, everything changes. As an adult, Ambrose becomes a modern-day mountain man living alone in the wilds, determined to prove to himself that an ancient creature...

Vivienne Small's world is under threat. A Winged Dog has fallen from the sky bearing an ominous note, and vercaka have invaded the City of Clocks. Meanwhile, in the real world, famous writers are turning up far from home, injured and confused, and Tuesday McGillycuddy and Serendipity Smith— the most famous writer of all— could be next! Suddenly whisked away...