The Stella Prize shortlist for 2015 was announced today!

The six shortlisted books are:

• Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke – Read our review
• The Strays by Emily Bitto – Read our review
• The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally
• The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna – Read our review
• The Golden Age by Joan London – Read our review
• Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven – Read our review

For today only, we’re offering a 10% discount on any of these six books using the promo code STELLA. Simply apply the code in the final payment stage of our online checkout. This offer is only available online, until midnight on Thursday 12 March.

Executive Director of the Stella Prize, Aviva Tuffield, says of the shortlist: ‘We are thrilled with the strength and diversity of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist. These six remarkable books explore themes of identity, family, displacement and belonging, with distinctly Australian resonances. Two of the books are debut works, which speaks to the talent of Australian women writers, even those just beginning their careers as authors. We are immensely grateful for the determination and rigour of our judging panel, who selected these six excellent, original and engaging books.’

This year’s winner will be announced in Melbourne on the evening of Tuesday 21 April, and will receive $50,000 in prize money. Find out more (including the full judges’ report) here.