Ashley Hay wins the Colin Roderick Award

The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies has revealed the winner of the 2013 Colin Roderick Award and we are delighted to announce that The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay has taken the prize. The award is for the best book of the preceding year in any genre, and dealing with an aspect of Australian life. Trevor Shearston's Game was also shortlisted.

Books by Ashley Hay

A Hundred Small Lessons

Published: May 2018

A lyrical novel of two mothers from different generations and how their lives converge in one hot, wet summer. From the bestselling author of The Railwayman's Wife.

The Railwayman's Wife

Published: May 2014

An acclaimed, heartbreaking novel of love and loss, and the healing power of memory and words.

The Body in the Clouds

Published: September 2010

What if you looked up and out of the corner of your eye you saw something so marvellous, so extraordinary, that it transformed time and space forever? An extraordinary, luminous debut novel that weaves together three lives each altered forever when they look up and see the body in the clouds.