The Yellow House/Saltwater
Emily O'Grady + Cathy McLennan
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
Action/Crime / Culture/Social Equity
431
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
The Yellow House was the 2018 winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. It's a powerful novel about loyalty and betrayal; about the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption.
When Cathy McLennan first steps into Townsville's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service as a young graduate she isn't expecting a major murder case to land on her desk. Cathy realises that the truth is far more complex than she first thought. She starts to question who are the criminals and who are the victims.
Chair: Susan Johnson.
The Yellow House has been shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award. People Choice voting is underway. http://www.qldliteraryawards.
Have your say.
#Artists
Emily O'Grady
Emily O’Grady’s debut novel, The Yellow House, won the 2018 Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her second novel, Feast (Allen & Unwin) was published in 2023 and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
Cathy McLennan
Cathy McLennan is an Australian bestselling writer, lawyer, and magistrate best known for her multi-award winning memoir, Saltwater. She is a recipient of the United Nations Association of Australia Queensland Award and was presented with the 2015 Chancellors Award for Alumni of the Year, James Cook University. She has a Masters of Law from the University of Queensland.
Cathy loves reading and writing books and can be found most weekends at home with her husband, kids and border collie on their cattle property in Far North Queensland.
#Moderator
Susan Johnson
Susan Johnson is the author of 14 books, published in Australia, the US, England and in European translation. Nine are novels, including the most recent, From Where I Fell (2022), shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. The others are collections she edited, as well as two memoirs, A Better Woman (1999), on motherhood, illness and writing, and the critically acclaimed Aphrodite’s Breath: A Mother, A Daughter and a Greek Island (2023), about living on Kythera. Susan Johnson’s books have been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Prize, the Christina Stead Award, the National Biography Award, the Nita B Kibble Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, among others. She has been awarded two residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, and her manuscripts and papers are collected by the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
