It’s a delight for any author’s novel to be put on ‘end of year shortlists’. My delight also comes because To Sing of War in 2024 is shortlisted along with other authors whose work I love and admire, and also because the nominators – Kate Evans and Michaela Kalowski – are critics I have great respect for.
Shortlisting doesn’t always happen, so I always feel incredibly grateful when it does.
ABC 2024 Best Books
You can see the full list and listen to podcast here.
Kate Evans
Australian:
Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13
Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs
Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of War
Robbie Arnott, Dusk
Inga Simpson, The Thinning
Michaela Kalowski
Australian:
Robbie Arnott, Dusk
Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn
Tim Winton, Juice
Catherine McKinnon, To Sing of War
James Bradley, Deep Water
Julian Borger, I Seek a Kind Person
