Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. She has been publishing books with UQP since 1997, with her first novel, Steam Pigs, winning the Dobbie Literary Award and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Hard Yards (1999) was shortlisted for the Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and Mullumbimby (2013) won the Queensland Literary Award and was longlisted for the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Kibble Literary Award. She has also written two novels for teenagers, Killing Darcy (UQP, 1998) and Too Flash (IAD Press, 2002). In 2013 Melissa won the inaugural long-form Walkley Award for her Griffith REVIEW essay 'Sinking Below Sight: Down and Out in Brisbane and Logan'.
Genres: Historical
Novels
Killing Darcy (1998)
Hard Yards (1999)
Too Flash (2002)
Steam Pigs (2005)
Mullumbimby (2013)
Too Much Lip (2018)
Edenglassie (2023)
Hard Yards (1999)
Too Flash (2002)
Steam Pigs (2005)
Mullumbimby (2013)
Too Much Lip (2018)
Edenglassie (2023)
Books containing stories by Melissa Lucashenko
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