• Somerville, Jennifer. "Tracing the Past." Good Reading, April 2025, pp.10-13.
• Arnott, Georgina. "History through speculation." Australian Book Review, May 2025, pp.17-18.

From the Library

The Secret river : Miniseries (2015)

Online

ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler, Kate Grenville, When Kate Grenville's mother died she left fragments of a memoir. Kate has pieced them into an intimate biography. Wednesday 6 May 2015, - Audio [49:59]

ABC RN - Late night live, Kate Grenville's One Life: My mother' story' with presenter Phillip Adams - Audio [6:43]

ABC Splash

• Navigating The Secret River' ABC Splash

The Wheeler Centre

• Texts in the City: The Secret River
• Australian Literature 101: Lilian's Story

Other sources

Canongate Books

• Kate Grenville on The Lieutenant (2:50)

Interviews

• Book and writing with Ramona Koval Kate Grenville talks to Ramona Koval about her latest, and much anticipated, new novel The Secret River. This is a tale that seeks to gain a new vantage point from which to view Australia's European settlement. It's a story of ordinary people, inter-cultural incoherence and dreadful inevitabilities. [ABC - Radio National - Transcript only]
• Kate Grenville talks to Mark Rubbo, Readings Bookshop about 'The Lieutenant' [Transcript only]
• Kate Grenville on writing, history and her latest book (Sarah Thornhill). Sydney Writers' Centre interview with Kate Grenville at the Melbourne Writers Festival 2011. Find out why she started writing, her writing process, how she researches for her story and her views on writing Australian historical fiction. (14:02)
• Past imperfect: After two unpublished manuscripts and a spell in psychotherapy, Australian novelist Kate Grenville found success with novels about her country's violent history. Kate Grenville interviewed by Susanna Rustin, 19 August 2007, The Guardian [Transcript only]

General

• Kate Grenville website

Other

• Past imperfect with Susanna Rustin, The Guardian, 19th August 2007
• The Secret river, by Kate Grenville, adapted for stage by Andrew Bovell. Winner of Victorian Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing 2014 - from the Wheeler Centre
• The Strangeness of the Dance: Kate Grenville, Rohan Wilson, Inga Clendinnen and Kim Scott. Alison Ravenscroft on the strange forms Indigenous history has taken in recent Australian fiction, in Meanjin 2015.
• The writer in a time of change by Kate Grenville, in the Griffith Review, Edition 26

Dark Places

• Like canasta or waltzing: Dark Places - Kate Grenville by Maggie Traugott. The Independent, 25th September 1994.

The Idea perfection

• Cartwright, A, (2011), 'Victory by stealth' in the Guardian

The Lieutenant

• Minter, J (200?), 'Choices, views and values: The lieutenant' in English works
• Rubbo, M (2008), 'The Lieutenant', Readings Bookshop

Sarah Thornhill

• Sophie Cunningham reviews 'Sarah Thornhill' by Kate Grenville. Australian Book Review, no. 355, October, 2011
• McKeon, B (2012), Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville, in The Guardian

The Secret River

• The secret river Reviewer Peter Craven July 9, 2005 theage.com.au
• Bush ballad, Geraldine Bedell The Observer, Sunday 22 January 2006
• Cultures in collision, Jem Poster, The Guardian, Saturday 28 January 2006 - guardian.co.uk
• Outrages in the Outback, Katie Owen reviews The Secret River by Kate Grenville. - telegraph.co.uk
• When God was as foreign as a fish Helen Brown reviews The Secret River by Kate Grenville. - telegraph.co.uk
• Poetic Political Theatre: A Review of “The Secret River” by Kate Grenville, Adapted by Andrew Bovell - Theatre Times