Oceania

A timely and important collection of poems by the award-winning author of The White Girl and Blood. In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation...

Edited by Margot NealeWhat do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of...

Future Fire, Future FarmingWhat do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise...

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure.Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated...

Real Lives, Real LessonsAn inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words.As...

When my dad dropped us off at the front gate, the first things I saw were the rose garden spreading out on either side of the main driveway and the...

When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed...

Throughout a childhood spent moving between different countries, one thing was constant for Leen. The local shopping centre. Within those complexes the familiar landscape of logos, the bright lights, the...

Illustrated by Rachael SarraStories of Strength and Resilience from Australia’s First WomenAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It's a culture that...

A personal exploration of the impact of colonisationThis is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my...

*Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores.Spanning...

A fully illustrated contemporary cookbook featuring Australian native foods that is the perfect resource for any Aussie kitchen.This gorgeous illustrated, informative and contemporary cookbook and compendium of native foods will...

The much-loved debut of 2020 Miles Franklin Award winner Tara June Winch available in paperback for the first timeWhen May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken...

*Highly Commended — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* In this intensely personal collection, On explores loss, separation and renewal, online dating, sex, longing, rejection and desire. Though they are personal...

'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking...

A book that will change the way you think about love, relationships, heartbreak, and self-empowerment. Breaking the rules, challenging perceptions, and exploring the secret desires we keep hidden from the...

WINNER of the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 Shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award 2018 Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2017 Shortlisted...

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise,...

‘And then there is a scream. Ragged and terrified. A beat of silence even after it stops, until we all seem to realise that the Reading Room Rules no longer...

Aflame begins in Soviet Moscow and ends with a Tibetan Buddhist monk's self-immolation; residing between them - improvisations after celebrated Japanese Haikus. Written in an intricate and polyphonic structure, Subhash...

The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong — her most personal and accomplished work yet.Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories — personal, familial and cultural — that...

Most of us know what it’s like to have our hopes dashed on moving house: the excitement fades and we realise the furniture doesn’t fit, the rent is no cheaper,...

Because you eatThere is no farmers and others. If you eat or wear clothes, the decisions you make influence farming.'Eaters will be the ultimate arbiter of where and how food...

'One minute you're a 15-year-old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.'We now have a generation – Muslim and non-Muslim –...

Longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award. From the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, this tender, moving portrait of an improbable friendship and multicultural...

This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakama and kitsch and emerges dripping...

Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud is a no-holds-barred memoir and manifesto from outspoken senator, troublemaker and multicultural icon Mehreen Faruqi. As the first Muslim woman in any Australian parliament,...

From the winner of the inaugural Matilda Prize comes a heartwarming coming-of-age story about growing up in Australia when you're caught between two culturesLayla Karimi has been cursed by the...

I know lots of things now that I'm dead. Peter from Apartment Two has a spastic bladder. My former boss Morgan keeps her toenails in a gold jewellery box. My...

A transnational anthology of feminist poetryBorderless presents a collection of brand new, specially commissioned poems from a wide range of contemporary poets reflecting on feminism in its broadest sense.While it...

Fire Country is a cry from the heart asking for change in how Australia cares for country.Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country...

How do you find yourself without losing your family? A memoir about growing up, breaking the rules and negotiating culture, from a new Australian voice.A hilarious, heartwarming memoir of growing...

Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the...

Voices within mental healthAn unprecedented look at the lived experience of mental health in creative work, as told by writers, comedians and public figuresWe are full of worlds that can't...

Winner of the 1985 Booker PrizeThe Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin AwardFrom one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control.One hundred days. It's no time at...

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.The heartstopping follow up to These Violent Delights, an imaginative, alluring retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s...

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...

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELauē1. (verb) to cry, howl,...

How to Write While Colonised: 2022A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville.Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this...

A prize-winning classic novel, as relevant today as when it was first written. Potiki is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven...

They claim they saw nothing. She knows they’re lying.1996 – Cabramatta, Sydney‘Just let him go.’Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called...

Edited by Margot NealePast, Present and FutureWhat do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise...

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: 'What is your confession, my child?' I was stuffed. The priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call...

Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was...

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a...

Winner of the non-fiction prize in the 2011 WA Premier's Book AwardsShortlisted for the non-fiction prize in the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2012 Queensland Literary AwardsAt twenty-something,...

Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes — identity, racism, heritage destruction — from a wholly original perspective.The stories in Born Into This throw...

*FINALIST FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDS 2019**WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIERS LITERARY AWARDS MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2019*'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until...