Emma Styles
Set against the harsh, unforgiving landscape of outback Australia, this is Thelma & Louise for a new generation.
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER.
A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.
‘It’s not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim’s vehicle . . .’
About the book
Winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, No Country for Girls is a gritty road-trip thriller that follows two young women on the run along 2000 kilometres of remote highway in Western Australia.
Described as ‘a story of young, female empowerment and resilience’, No Country for Girls was a Val McDermid New Blood pick at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger, the Ned Kelly Award for best debut and two Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
‘Perfectly paced‘
SCOTSMAN
‘Unrelentingly entertaining‘
FEMI KAYODE, author of LIGHTSEEKERS
‘A breathless outback chase’
THE AGE
About Emma
Emma Styles writes contemporary Australian noir about young women taking on the patriarchy. She grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London.
About the roadtrip
Discover more about the journey the girls take along Great Northern Highway, one of the longest, most remote sealed roads in the world.
About Emma
Emma Styles writes contemporary Australian noir about young women taking on the patriarchy. She grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London.
About the roadtrip
Discover more about the journey the girls take along Great Northern Highway, one of the longest, most remote sealed roads in the world.
Acknowledgement of country
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands, waters and skies where this story is set, and where I live and work when in Australia, and I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
