July 14, 2026
Page Turners with The Nile Episode 7
Episode 7: Shannon Kelly-White
Join John Purcell on Page Turners as he chats with Shannon Kelly-White about her debut novel, Billie King: a bold, fast-moving Australian adventure about mothers, daughters, female bushrangers, and women fighting to survive on the margins.
Shannon shares the inspiration behind the book, her love of the Australian bush, and her leap from nonfiction into fearless fiction.
Click here to listen to Shannon's episode of Page Turners.
A blisteringly fast, fresh, funny and hugely entertaining novel of mothers, daughters and one gutsy wild colonial girl who gets caught up in Australia’s last female bushranger’s quest for revenge. Think Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife meets Trent Dalton.
1918: Australia’s last bushranger, Dulcie James, holds up Anna King’s falling-down farmhouse. There’s a scrawny unloved infant on the floor, Anna seems more furious than frightened, and it’s the bushranger who’s left shaken. And the next day, Anna disappears.
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