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Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. Her first novel, the international bestseller, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into 30 languages and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award, and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Hannah's second novel, The Good People was published in 2016 (ANZ) and 2017 (Feb, UK; Sept, North America). It was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. It ...more

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Deviant Women Podcast

I recently had a great time chatting with the marvellous people behind the Deviant Women Podcast.

Have a listen for our conversation on historical research, the difficulties of representation, and the real-life women who have inspired my novels.

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	Burial Rites 4.02 avg rating — 66,219 ratings — published 2013 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good People 3.81 avg rating — 10,707 ratings — published 2016 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, April 2016 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Jane Caro (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, July 2016 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Hugh Jones (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, October 2011 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Ben Eltham (Contributor) , Ron Rash (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, January 2017 by Rebecca Starford (Publishing Director), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Publishing Director) , Hop Doc (Associate Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, April 2013 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Scott MacLeod (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2014 UTS WRITERS’ ANTHOLOGY: SIGHT LINES by UTS Writers Anthology, Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, January 2011 by Rebecca Starford (Editor), Emily Maguire (Contributor) , Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
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“I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink.”
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“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”
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August ~ BotM Nominations-Side Read 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move on to the 2nd Poll!!!

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

18 votes, 29.0%

The Hour I First Believed

by Wally Lamb

8 votes, 12.9%

The Silent Wife

by A.S.A. Harrison

7 votes, 11.3%

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

5 votes, 8.1%

The Paris Architect

by Charles Belfoure

5 votes, 8.1%

Love Life

by Rob Lowe

5 votes, 8.1%

The Martian

by Andy Weir

4 votes, 6.5%

The Rhythm of Memory

by Alyson Richman

4 votes, 6.5%

Covet

by Tracey Garvis-Graves

4 votes, 6.5%

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

by Jessica Soffer

2 votes, 3.2%

62 total votes

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