Dr Robert Kenny’s Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir has been shortlisted for the Non-Fiction category in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016, one of Australia’s major literary awards.

Gardens of Fire won the History Publications Award at the Community History Awards, and was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction:

“A brave and honest book, perhaps the finest writing to come out of the catastrophic 2009 Victorian bushfires … Cleverly structured with dual narratives, this is a quiet revelation: a great literary contribution, both personal and analytical, to the works on fire in Australia.” -Judge’s Report, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Robert is an associate member of the Contemporary Histories Research Group.