2022 Releases

Essays on Memory In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query...

A ground-breaking YA thriller about a Native American teen who must root out the corruption in her community. For fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange.Eighteen-year-old Daunis's mixed heritage has...

Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black FictionIn partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future.Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice...

An anthology of First Nations speculative fictionA world-first collection of blackfella speculative fiction from well-known and emerging First Nations writers.The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction...

A Memoir The most inspirational and important memoir of 2022 For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the...

WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS HIGHLY COMMENDEDGundagai, 1852. The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake....

'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous writingA CAPTIVATING YOUNG ADULT DEBUT FROM A BLACK&WRITE! WRITING FELLOWSHIP WINNERThree misfits. Two warring spirits. One chance to save the world.Kirra...

Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked...

An Australian Kitchen CookbookAustralian Indigenous ingredients and recipes framed without cliche for the curious cook.In Mabu Mabu, charismatic First Nations chef Nornie Bero champions the tastes of native flavours in...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMANIn this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates...

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...

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 thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and...

Reclaiming myself, my people, my countryA raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalitiesMy story is about...

ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two...

'We don't say any words — everything has been said through two sets of eyes, two entangled souls and endless kissing.'Evie has been raised in the heart of Aboriginal Redfern,...

A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full'Welcome to my story. It's a simple...

The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart ContinuesIn this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas...

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the...

'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' —Dr....

Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for RightsWhat does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people?In this deeply personal work, Inala...

Ten Years of First Nations StorytellingAn anthology of writing produced by Indigenous creatives from Western Sydney that has been praised by ArtsHub as 'a light shone on First Nations writers'.Blacklight:...

A story about what it means to be a friend …Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books … and life, love and the...

An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.Dear grandmother, I am writing this song for you. I am...

By Daniel Browning, Léuli Eshraghi, Isobel Parker Philip and Michael MossmanDaniel Boyd (b 1982) is one of Australia's most acclaimed young artists. His practice is internationally recognised for its manifold...

How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial TasmaniaTarenootairer (c.1806–58) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a...

On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait'I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Sabai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers too.'On his...

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood, searching for a better option in life, to Olympic champion and...

Welcome to the Repertory Apartments — where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages.A mother and her young son...

Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just toremind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every single morning and chooses violence cos what choice...

Daily wisdom guided by Hina, the Maori moonDr Hinemoa Elder, author of Aroha, New Zealand's top-selling non-fiction title of 2021, shows us how to reclaim intimacy with others, with ourselves,...

This beautifully illustrated publication, with essays by Bruce Johnson McLean and Judith Ryan, features some 50 works drawn from public and private collections in an exhibition surveying the life and...

Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists.It's...

10 Years OnThe story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradyuri woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal...

Seventeen-year-old Phoebe's life is turned upside down when she moves from the city to the country to live with her dad in this powerful and uplifting story about family breakdowns,...

Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985...

Twelve diverse writers reveal another Australia hidden behind, beneath and beside the country we think we know.A suburban psychic's ominous warning. A conversation in Yuwaalaraay. A glimpse of a shameful,...

A masterful new story collection from award-winning Indigenous writer Tony BirchThese exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because of...

Contacting the Power of the Wild WomanThe 2 million-copy bestselling cult feminist classicGo out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever...

The separation of Ranginui & PapatūānukuStunning retelling of the Māori creation story about the separation of Ranginui, sky-father, and Papatūānuku, earth-mother.​Te Wehenga is the separation of Ranginui, sky-father, and Papatūānuku,...

A groundbreaking celebration of the most accessible and popular Australian native ingredients and their uses in the everyday home kitchen.We know more about pine nuts than bunya nuts, kale than...

A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs.There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love,...

Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer...

13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit GuidanceIndigenous Medicine Woman Asha Frost invites readers to learn the healing medicine of the 13 Ojibway moons and the spirit...

Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition)A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.The pieces in this...

There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother,...