Australia Day

• An important and illuminating debut fiction collection about Australian life and identity • Australia Day won the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript—the prize that previously unearthed The Rosie Project, Foreign Soil and The Dry • In the nine years Melanie has been writing, she says it is her interactions as a GP that have mainly informed these accessible stories about searching for connection and belonging in an increasingly diverse but individualistic modern-day Australia • Author will be a guest of major writers' festivals • Marketing campaign with advertising in bookseller newsletters and catalogues, as well as literary and current affairs publications e.g. ABR, Monthly and Guardian • Major publicity campaign with guaranteed media and reviews • Born in Adelaide, the author is based in Melbourne and lives in Fitzroy North