Shepherd Longlisted for Historical Book Award

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‘Shepherd’ has been longlisted for the Historical Novel Society of Australia’s inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. At long last, a prize exclusively for historical novels! I couldn’t be happier.
The full list can be found at the HNSA website.

To date, ‘Shepherd‘ has received or been listed for three awards:

Winner of the ‘novel’ category of the 2019 Australasian Horror Writers Association Shadows Awards

Shortlisted for the 2020 Colin Roderick Literary Award

Longlisted for the Historical Novel Society of Australia’s 2020 ARA historical novel prize

About Catherine Jinks

Catherine Jinks portrait
In 2006, Cathy’s former school, the
Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School, renamed their library in Cathy’s honour.

Catherine Jinks was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1963. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and later studied medieval history at the University of Sydney. After working for several years in a bank, she married Peter Dockrill, a Canadian journalist, and lived for a short time in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is now a full-time writer, residing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales with Peter and their daughter Hannah. Catherine is a four-time winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award, and has also won a Victorian Premier’s Literature Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, the Ena Noel Award for Children’s Literature and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. In 2001 she was presented with a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian Children’s Literature.

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