Congratulations to Grace Karskens for winning the Australian History Prime Minister’s Literary Award for People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia. ‘By researching widely in the humanities and sciences, Grace Karskens has crafted an epic history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Like the river itself, this engaging work twists and turns, sometimes switching back on itself, to capture the complex interplay between the waterway and its environs, the people who have called it home for millennia, and those who have arrived over the last 230 years…’