Compassion: The sequel to Benevolence by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion contin ...Show more
Tracks of the Missing by Carl Merrison, Hakea Hustler
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children Fiction
‘There must be payback.’‘There must, you are right,’ Grandfather agrees.‘What can you offer in exchange?’Grandfather holds up his arms, open, offering himself as a sacrifice. ‘I am old.’Deklan ‘Dek’ Archer and his mates arrive at school to a tense atmosphere. ‘Old Mate’, Mr Henry, who has lived in town ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Taboo by Kim Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who ...Show more
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The novel flows like the great Murrumbidgee River itself, with powerful undercurrents that sweep the reader along - I feel it's a book that all Australians should read, to try and understand why our colonial past still causes so much pain and grievance.’ – Kate Forsyth
The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning TERRA NULLIUS Shane Daniels and Romany Zetz have been drawn into a war that is not their own. Lives will be destroyed, families will be torn apart. Trust will be broken. When the war is over, some will return to a c ...Show more
Benang by Kim Scott
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful ...Show more
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them recon ...Show more
Common People by Tony Birch
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a ...Show more
True Country by Kim Scott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Examining ideas of belonging and being an outsider, this story follows Billy, a young school teacher and drifter who arrives in Australia's remote far north in search of his past, his Aboriginal roots, and his future. Through masterful language and metaphor, as well as a sophisticated tone that is both ...Show more