DAVITTS 2024 SHORTLIST

And now, for the Davitts Shortlist for 2024! There are some great books on the list this year, and the judging team of six people has done an AMAZING job getting this down from 153 books entered to 19 for the shortlist – read more about it here.

I was delighted to see Ellie Marney’s chilling Some Shall Break here – and am super keen for book three, especially after the workshop I did with her recently. I have also read all the children’s books on the shortlist, and any of them would be a deserving winner!

Adult novels (7)

Bronwyn Hall, The Chasm (HQ Fiction)

Amanda Hampson, The Tea Ladies (Penguin Random House)

Christine Keighery, The Half Brother (Ultimo Press) Debut

Suzie Miller, Prima Facie (Pan Macmillan Australia) Debut

Marija Pericic, Exquisite Corpse (Ultimo Press)

Darcy Tindale, The Fall Between (Penguin Random House) Debut

Monica Vuu, When One of Us Hurts (Pan Macmillan Australia) Debut

Non-fiction (4)

Ahona Guha, Reclaim: Understanding complex trauma and those who abuse (Scribe Publications) Debut

Rebecca Hazel, The Schoolgirl, her Teacher and his Wife (Penguin Random House)

Christine Kenneally, Ghosts of the Orphanage (Hachette Australia)

Nicole Madigan, Obsession (Pantera Press) Debut

Young Adult novels (2)

Amy Doak, Eleanor Jones Is Not a Murderer (Penguin Random House) Debut

Ellie Marney, Some Shall Break (Allen & Unwin)

Children’s novels (4)

Lucinda Gifford, The Wolves of Greycoat Hall (Walker Books)

Kelli Anne Hawkins, Copycat (HarperCollins Australia)

Alison Tait, The First Summer of Callie McGee (Scholastic Australia)

Anna Zobel, This Camp Is Doomed: A Dennith Grange misadventure (Penguin Random House)