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As diaspora தமிழ்s growing up in new home countries, with a backdrop of genocide, it can be challenging and confusing to grapple with these personal and historical tapestries. Priyanka’s poetry...

Translated by Arunava Sinha In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her...

WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection)WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary AwardSHORTLISTED - 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry) SHORTLISTED - 2019...

Edited by Margot Neale What 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...

A memoir of racism and resilience The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force....

Echoesis a lyrical collection of personal essays which references art and literature, pop culture and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging 'disco dress' to learning to sing Koo...

'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...

A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed We have to keep saying it because they keep doing...

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...

An Anthology Of Australian Writers Of ColourExperimental, genre-bending, lucid stories of the future from the inaugural LIMINAL Fiction Prize longlist.What does the future hold? A tense dinner party is held...

Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Tiger Daughter...

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. Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror,...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction Essays on Inheritance I have come to see that I am an argumentative person who is frequently convinced that my angle,...

In the cafe, I watch as a woman takes a photo of her plate an impressive, glossy lime-coloured dessert with shards of chocolate perched on top. I want to feel...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Literature The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions...

There's something dangerous in the air. It shimmers in the night, wrapped in the warm, humid breeze. I stand on the kerb outside my cousin's house waiting for my sister.Zillah...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told with dignity...

Dinners for every night of the week from Australia's favourite cook Australia's favourite home cook, Nagi Maehashi, is back to solve the perennial problem of what's for dinner tonight ......

A powerful indictment of the criminal behaviour of police officers, and a call for institutional reform, edited by the multi-award-winning author of Black and Blue. When Cops Are Criminals examines...

A dazzling and impressive follow-up to Money's highly acclaimed debut, how to make a basket. We gather marks. Our bodies, our stories, our histories and our world are made of...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Jackie Huggins, Is That You, Ruthie? is a remarkable memoir that recounts, with characteristic humour and honesty, a dormitory girl's...

*Highly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* 'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.' A brilliant new novel from the...

Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius — nobody’s land, free to be taken. True Tracks is a groundbreaking work that paves the way for respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous...

*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...

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

First Nations Stories: Then and Now 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...

The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale...

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...

When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the...

An eerie psychological thriller, rippling with the Gothic undertones of Rebecca, from a startling new Australian talent. The Farm enthrals from the very first page. The radio sputters out and...

A powerful, unique novel based on the oral history of the Yolngu people from north-east Arnhem Land that tells the story of a grandmother who stops at nothing to protect...

The new novel from the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on...

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

Guwayu, For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over the past 16 years, and is a radical literary intervention for its breadth...

150 recipes from Australia’s most popular cook 150 dinner recipes. Fail-proof. Delicious. Addictive. The food you want to cook, eat and share, night after night. Through her phenomenally popular online...

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield...

What 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 and ingenuity of...

‘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...

Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout book The lake in the middle of her father's kitchen is only the...

The much-anticipated follow-up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai's Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife. We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with...

You won't find 'terraglossia' on Google, or in a dictionary. It's a word coined by acclaimed academic and award-winning author Dr Debra Dank in response to the first Europeans' description...

 ‘In The Theory of Everything, Kassab realises the potential and fulfils the promise of her earlier work. This is a writer at her intellectual and poetic peak. Innovative, ambitious, unapologetically intellectual,...

Mastering the art and technique of wok cooking with over 80 recipes The Golden Wok is the cookbook that shows you that a wok isn't just a cooking utensil, it's...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 YOUNG ADULT INDIE BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 ABIA JOHN MARSDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR OLDER CHILDREN BEST ROMANTASY BOOKS...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Kirli Saunders, Dreaming in the Urban Areas is an unforgettable work of Indigenous poetry.Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) was a Goenpul woman...

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

A memoir with bite Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over...

*Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* You are on Indigenous lands, swimming in Indigenous waters, looking up at Indigenous skies. Living on Stolen Land...

'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...

A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage — three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara, with an introduction by Tara...