2024 releases

Sascha Stronach’s queer, Maori-inspired Endsong trilogy reopens on a city in flames, where a magic-wielding pirate crew uncovers an age-old fight between the gods that threatens their world.The steel city...

ngayawanj bagan-nggul, ngayawanj barra barra-nggul is a collection of poems and stories in Dhurga and English, by students from Vincentia High School. The accompanying artwork, created by the students for...

WHO REALLY KILLED THE PRIMROSE FAMILY? The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation. The family's young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and...

The Ultimate Marketing Playbook to Grow Your Online Business Are you ready to supercharge your sales? When it comes to growing a business, it's no longer about what you sell,...

Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your...

Vibrant, moving and diverse stories of shape-shifting between cultures. 'To be Indian growing up in Australia is to tread the narrow line between here and there, to constantly code-switch and...

Debunk the Myths and Discover What Goes into Your Beauty Routine Accessible, illustrated beauty and skincare expertise from Instagram's cosmetic chemist Dr Michelle Wong a.k.a Lab Muffin Beauty ScienceWill eating...

Some passions just can't be tamed ... Brynn thought she'd be chasing her dreams, not chasing dogs, when she set off on the adventure of a lifetime. When Bigambul woman...

A gripping YA fantasy novel featuring a deadly contest for the crown, a heroine determined to right the wrongs done to her people, and a smouldering love story that could...

Pronounced jooh-gun, meaning Country in Bundjalung language.Jagun celebrates the land, sky, waters, flora and fauna that together form Country. There is no part of the natural world that is not...

To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by...

'From Africa to India, the Middle East, France, the UK and New Zealand, this book will take you on a journey full of flavours and the melded cultures that are...

Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In...

So-called Australia is built upon a lie: that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights.  Human? is the story of...

The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in...

An action-packed South Asian epic fantasy featuring necromancers, jinn, and one seriously fearless heroine... Meet Kavithri. Outcast. Underdog. Survivor. Kavi is a Taemu. Her people, once feared berserkers and the...

'The constant search for autonomy and freedom is in every woman.'Hana Assafiri is a much-loved and revered social activist and radical entrepreneur. Through the medium of food and dining in...

A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present'My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood...

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.Ghost Cities - inspired...

‘In all of the madness stood two addicts: one severely addicted to alcohol and drugs, and the other just as addicted to the addict… In my sickness ― the sickness...

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a...

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and...

This captivating ethnographic novel tells a story about global inequality through a rich, poignant, and often humorous portrait of everyday life in the postcolonial Pacific. In Suva, the bustling capital...

An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and...

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove...

An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements 'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia Grace In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered...

Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to...

A Year at Yumbarra 'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.'From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story...

'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together. We entered into new citizenships together....

How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Qin Qin was all about...

A heartbreaking and powerful story of a mother's quest for connection with her lost son 150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one...

‘Nadia Niaz dances worlds into being. Hers is a rich and heady poetry, unafraid to play with form, spun for us across contrasting worlds, languages, time, customs. It’s a poetry...

A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive...

Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon The world of surgery is strange, messy and intense. From a man presenting with fishhooks in his stomach...

She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers. Theo has one dream—to become a bestselling author. Determined to make her mark in the literary world, she heads...

A memoir of living in two cultures Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this...

Stories of Goori sovereignty from the futures of the Tweed In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question: what might country, community and culture look like...

In the one tumultuous day, Ch’anzu loses hir job and finds wife Scarlet in bed with a stranger. As life unexpectedly spirals out of control, Ch’anzu turns to hir charismatic...

Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36...

When twin sisters Amber and Jeanie are accepted into an exclusive boarding school, their future looks bright. But the school's halls harbour a terrible secret: students have been known to...

A temple city in lush southern India, Madurai is bustling with pilgrims and steeped in history and tradition. Yet not all traditions should be upheld... 1992. As a low-caste cleaner...

A transformative path for women to reclaim their power in a world all too eager to strip it awayWomen know what it's like to feel powerless. We have had power...

Sparks fly in this glittering romantic comedy about love, marriage and mistaking your own identity. Matchmaking is easy. Falling in love on the other hand . . . Saima knows...

A powerful new collection from one of Aotearoa's most esteemed fiction writers. Mythology and contemporary Maori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa's foremost short story...

Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in...

6066: In Emperor Thracin's brave new galaxy, humans are not citizens but indentured labourers, working to repay the debt they unwittingly incurred when they settled on Gahraan - a desert planet already...

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational...

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from 'a born storyteller' (Michael Robotham). Weeks from Christmas in the sweltering...

Journey to Malaysia with chef Junda Khoo in his new cookbook, Ho Jiak. Featuring more than 100 staple dishes, this rich collection of recipes showcases a dynamic cuisine steeped in tradition, from street...

Anti-Racism Kit is the essential, comprehensive first guide to dismantling racism, created especially for Australian high school students. Written by two bright young Australian thinkers, the Anti-Racism Kit is a liberating, eye-opening exploration of anti-racism...