Queensland Literary Awards - Courier Mail People’s Choice Award - 2019 - Shortlisted.Australian Book Industry Awards - 2019 - Longlisted.However she soon becomes embroiled in dramas with regards to her family, her local family history, and the overdevelopment of the local community, and unexpectedly finds love with a local dugai (white man ) named Steve. A fugitive with warrants out for her arrest, she does not intend to stay in town for long. Protagonist Kerry returns to her hometown of Durrongo on a stolen Harley to bid farewell to her dying grandfather. It was the winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the Stella Award. 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'.Too Much Lip (2018) is a novel by Australian author Melissa Lucashenko. She has also written two novels for teenagers, Killing Darcy (UQP, 1998) and Too Flash (IAD Press, 2002). 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 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. Gritty and darkly hilarious, Too Much Lip offers redemption and forgiveness where none seems possible.Ībout the Author: Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. And the unexpected arrival on the scene of a good-looking dugai fella intent on loving her up only adds more trouble - but then trouble is Kerry's middle name. Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river.

She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, over the border. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. Too much lip, her old problem from way back.

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