Katherine Scholes

We’re celebrating Mother’s Day with Katherine Scholes! To purchase a copy of The Beautiful Mother, please go to this link https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-beautiful-mother-9780143795346 Katherine Scholes is the author of international bestsellers including The Rain Queen, Make Me An Idol, The Stone Angel, The Hunter’s Wife, The Lioness, The Perfect Wife and Congo Dawn. She is particularly popular in Europe, where she has sold over two million books. Her novel The Blue Chameleon won a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and The Stone Angel was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and includes children’s titles as well as novels for adults. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker. Katherine was born in Tanzania, the daughter of a doctor and an artist. Parts of her childhood were spent camping in remote areas where her father operated a clinic from his Land Rover and her mother painted. When she was ten, the family left Africa, going briefly to England, then migrating to Australia. She now lives in Tasmania with her husband and two sons, but makes regular trips back to her homeland, where many of her novels are set.

Welcome to the Penguin Long Weekend Literary Festival! Please enjoy Katherine Scholes’s author talk on her latest novel The Beautiful Mother. To find out more, please go to this link https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-beautiful-mother-9780143795346 We’d love to hear your thoughts via #PRHLongWeekend. Katherine Scholes is the author of international bestsellers including The Rain Queen, Make Me An Idol, The Stone Angel, The Hunter’s Wife, The Lioness, The Perfect Wife and Congo Dawn. She is particularly popular in Europe, where she has sold over two million books. Her novel The Blue Chameleon won a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award and The Stone Angel was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and includes children’s titles as well as novels for adults. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker. Katherine was born in Tanzania, the daughter of a doctor and an artist. Parts of her childhood were spent camping in remote areas where her father operated a clinic from his Land Rover and her mother painted. When she was ten, the family left Africa, going briefly to England, then migrating to Australia. She now lives in Tasmania with her husband and two sons, but makes regular trips back to her homeland, where many of her novels are set.

The international bestselling author on motherhood, the meaning of family and empathising with her main character.

A novel that will pull at the heartstrings of everyone in your book club.

Transport your book club to Africa with Katherine Scholes’ Congo Dawn.

Katherine Scholes reflects on writing uncharted territory.

The bestselling author on her unyielding love affair with the African continent.