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Tony Birch
A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers.
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Jane Harrison
The most exciting debut in 2023, The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction.
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Melanie Saward
A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins - from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Australian fiction, Melanie Saward.
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John Morrissey
A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart
In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is…
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Ellen van Neerven
Curated and introduced by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock features luminous storytelling from leading Aboriginal writers, such as Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch, as well as…
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Anita Heiss
Set on timeless Wiradyuri country, where the life-giving waters of the rivers can make or break dreams, and based on devastating true events, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) is an…
Adam Thompson
Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective.
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Melissa Lucashenko
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the…
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
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Nardi Simpson
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
Jeanine Leane
Based of Jeanine Leane’s own childhood, these funny, endearing, and thought-provoking stories offer a snapshot of a unique Australian upbringing.
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Larissa Behrendt
Illustrating through the lives of family members, the relentless pull of home across the generations, this is a multi-voiced novel.
Dylan Coleman
Growing up on the Mission isn’t easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn’t know what to say. Pappa Neddy says…
Claire G. Coleman
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning Terra Nullius
In the near future Australia is about to experience colonisation once more. What have we learned from our past? A daring debut novel from the winner of the 2016 black&write…
Alexis Wright
Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
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A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia’s most admired Indigenous voices. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property…
Tara June Winch
A collection of prodigious depth and variety, After the Carnage marks the remarkable evolution of one of our finest young writers.
Nakkiah Lui
Love, politics and other things you shouldn’t talk about at dinner.
Paul Collis
Part road-movie, part ‘Koori-noir’, Dancing Home announces an original and darkly funny new voice.
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Gus Henderson
In this unforgettable debut, The Wounded Sinner shines a light on growing old, fidelity and identity which run through this unique and gritty novel, in which all are asking the…
In this breathtaking new work, Tony Birch affirms his position as one of Australia’s finest writers of short-form fiction. A trio of amateur thieves are left in charge of a…
The river is a place of history and secrets. For Ren and Sonny, two unlikely friends, it’s a place of freedom and adventure. For a group of storytelling vagrants, it’s…
Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule…
From the author of the much-loved Shadowboxing comes this new collection of short fiction. Tony Birch has an eye for life lived at the margins and in Father’s Day he…
Kim Scott
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, brutality and mystery about a young woman cast into a drama that…
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In playful, musical prose, this book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers. The novel’s hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby…
I tell you that this story of my own is part of a much older story… one of a perpetual billowing from the sea, with its rhythm of return, return…
Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured, and some take…
Leah Purcell
Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past. Henry Lawson’s story of the Drover’s Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape…
Jack Davis
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
Tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children’s home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from their community…
