Awards

• Long-listed for Kibble Literary Award 2015.
• Long-listed for Walkley Non-Fiction Book Award 2014.
• Short-listed for Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award 2015 (Australia)
• Short-listed for Kibble Literary Award 2015 (Australia)
• Short-listed for Queensland Literary Awards, University of Southern Queensland History Book Award 2015 (Australia)
• Shortlisted for Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book Award 2015.
• Shortlisted for Kibble Literary Award 2015.

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'The strength and beauty of this book is the way it delves into the lives of the people affected and tries to understand their responses, their courage and their failings. Cunningham argues that these kinds of natural disasters are going to become more prevalent as the effects of climate change make extreme weather conditions more likely. This book is no polemic: it's a gripping and visceral tale.' -- Mark Rubbo, Readings

'Sophie Cunnigham's Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy I defy anyone to put down: an inspired use of oral archives, and a startling picture, sharply lit by disaster, of Australians as we were in the mid-'70s.' -- Helen Garner * Age/Sydney Morning Herald/Canberra Times * 'The strength and beauty of this book is the way it delves into the lives of the people affected and tries to understand their responses, their courage and their failings. Cunningham argues that these kinds of natural disasters are going to become more prevalent as the effects of climate change make extreme weather conditions more likely. This book is no polemic: it's a gripping and visceral tale.' -- Mark Rubbo, Readings 'Highly accomplished...compelling.' * Age/SMH * 'Cunningham has pieced together a pacey and energetic insight into the build up, experience and aftermath of the cyclone...It's a great read and, given the subject, it is strangely hopeful.' * Big Issue * 'Along with an eye for good stories and a knack for telling them, Sophie Cunningham brings a contextualising political intelligence. What she is interested in is how natural disasters are also social and political events, and the period details amount to more than the sideburns and lairy shirts... What happens in natural disasters depends on how communities work; the effects and aftermaths of those disasters are in fact man-made. As the future promises more and more extreme weather events whose causes as well as effects are anthropogenic, Cunningham's gripping book contributes to new ways of thinking about them.' * Sunday Age/Sun Herald * 'Sophie Cunningham has done a tremendous job in gathering the voices-from then and now-of those who were there and during the clean-up [of Cyclone Tracy]. The result is vivid storytelling, gripping from beginning to end.' * Townsville Bulletin/Cairns Post * 'Compulsively readable and undeniably moving, Warning is the essential non-fiction book of 2014.' * Shepparton News * 'Literary non-fiction at its absorbing, emotional, instructive best.' -- Clare Wright, Best Books of the Year * Weekend Australian * 'In this fascinating non-ficiton book, Sophie Cunningham analyses the fallout of Cyclone Tracy from angles that other writers have tended to overlook...A well-crafted narrative ties her research together, making it a great read.' * Walkley Magazine *

'The strength and beauty of this book is the way it delves into the lives of the people affected and tries to understand their responses, their courage and their failings. Cunningham argues that these kinds of natural disasters are going to become more prevalent as the effects of climate change make extreme weather conditions more likely. This book is no polemic: it's a gripping and visceral tale.' -- Mark Rubbo, Readings 'Highly accomplished...compelling.' Age/SMH 'Cunningham has pieced together a pacey and energetic insight into the build up, experience and aftermath of the cyclone...It's a great read and, given the subject, it is strangely hopeful.' Big Issue 'Along with an eye for good stories and a knack for telling them, Sophie Cunningham brings a contextualising political intelligence. What she is interested in is how natural disasters are also social and political events, and the period details amount to more than the sideburns and lairy shirts... What happens in natural disasters depends on how communities work; the effects and aftermaths of those disasters are in fact man-made. As the future promises more and more extreme weather events whose causes as well as effects are anthropogenic, Cunningham's gripping book contributes to new ways of thinking about them.' Sunday Age/Sun Herald

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Sophie Cunningham is the author of two novels, Geography (2004) and Bird (2008) and two non-fiction works, Melbourne (UNSW Press, 2011) and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy (2014). She is a former editor of Meanjin and was until recently the chair of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. Warning was longlisted for the 2014 Walkley Book Award and the 2015 Kibble Literary Award. Sophie was awarded the 2015 Calibre Prize for her essay, ‘Staying with the Trouble.’

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