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HIGHLY COMMENDED, 2023 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITING Cartwarra or what? Selected poems and stories is a compendium of Alf’s works that span several literary genres, and is representative of an older generation of Blak writers who were...
A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright. First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever....
Every Secret Thing is a nothing-is-sacred misadventure that crackles with Marie Munkara’s famous acerbic humour. Set in the early days of missionary activity in far northern Australia,Every Secret Thing follows the Bush Mob as they try to evade the Mission Mob, who,...
SHORTLISTED, 2022 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN BOOK AWARDS, THE PREMIER'S PRIZE FOR AN EMERGING WRITER SHORTLISTED, 2021 ROYAL WESTERN AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WILLIAMS/LEE STEERE HISTORY PRIZE This extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez...
Bill Dempsey is a humble achiever. He is known primarily as a champion footballer with West Perth and the Darwin Buffaloes. A premiership captain who played over 400 games in 20 seasons in Perth and the Northern Territory, and a member of the AFL’s Indigenous Team of...
Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together. This seminal collection of poetry, prose and...
SHORTLISTED, 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly...
A Most Peculiar Act casts a sardonic eye at the protectionist policies of the early 20th century from the perspective of an Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller by the name of Sugar. Against the background of the Aboriginal Ordinances Act and the "White Australia" policy,...
The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families remains a dark chapter in Australia’s history. Pattie Lees was just ten years old when she and her four siblings were separated from their mother on the grounds of neglect and placed into...
The 1960s are remembered as a time of change and upheaval throughout the Western world, including Australia. No part of the country changed more in that decade than the remote pastoral regions of the north. But in these tropical parts the winds of change did not bring...
WINNER, 2019 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS, JUDITH WRIGHT CALANTHE AWARD FOR A POETRY COLLECTION WINNER, 2019 MASCARA AVANT-GARDE LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED, 2019 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS, POETRY SHORTLISTED, 2019 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS...
From well-known poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, challenging and unapologetic. Papertalk Green and Kinsella call into question what we think we know about our country, colonisation, land and...
And then I found me is the triumphant story of Noel Tovey’s stellar career in London as an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, director and curator. For more than 30 years, his acclaimed stage productions reached audiences across Europe, South Africa and Australia....
The third instalment of the Deadly D series is a thrilling journey that sees Dylan and his loyal friend Justice Jones desperately trying to keep the secret of Deadly D from being revealed to the world. Is it time for Dylan to fess up to his mother about how he has been...
In David Hardy’s beautifully illustrated new picture book we join a young boy, Alfie, on a quest for companionship. When at first his friends leave with their parents, he searches high and low for somebody new to play with. Sad and lonely at the end of the day, Alfie...
In vivid illustrations Bronwyn Houston takes us on a tour of her backyard. From tiny ants to swooping birds; meet the inhabitants of a flourishing tropical garden! With vivid imagery and simple, bold text, Counting Aussie Animals is bound to become a bedtime favourite....
Eleven-year-old Dylan is cursed with an abnormality transforming him into a fully-grown man whenever he gets angry. His curse attracts the interest of the Broncos during a class excursion, but a secret like that won't stay secret for long… The action-packed, rugby...
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries...
Eleven-year-old Dylan has to move from Mt Isa to Brisbane and he’s not happy. But as soon as he gets to Flatwater State School he finds a former Mount Isa Miner’s footy supporter in his principal and a ‘Broncos tragic’ as a teacher. He also makes a friend in Justice...
A huge snake takes refuge under the body of a napping grandfather.A sixteen year old girl keeps three hundred head of cattle together for a couple of weeks without losing a beast.A young Aboriginal boy witnesses a man being thrown off a train onto a remote railway...
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