Bestsellers

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...

Adventures in Indigenous Thinking The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe. Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut,...

Real Lives, Real Lessons An 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

A collection of twenty-four short stories about the women of the Pacific, their struggles with family, love and the effects of climate change on their world. Sometimes funny, often poignant...

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...

*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...

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...

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...

An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a...

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

A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with...

First published in 1988, a bestselling, seminal work of Indigenous memoir and a story of courage and humour in the face of poverty and tragedy. Ruby Langford Ginibi's remarkable talent...

Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai. Growing...

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...

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...

Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time.'For thousands of years, global narratives have had, as their explicit task, the expansion of the...

Because you eat There 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...

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...

Stories on Race and Identity An anthology that aims to smash the stereotypes of Arabs in Australia that too often proliferate in mainstream media. Although there are 22 separate Arab...

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,...

Lang’s evocative words of love, loss, and self-empowerment have inspired millions across the globe to seek their own voice through the healing power of poetry. A definite must-have collection for...

Four people, figuring out sex, love, and how to ‘adult.’Sydney — one of those places that just consumes you. A private school boy, a tortured drug dealer, a starving writer...

Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large...

A deeply moving novel about tradition, love, war and the sorrow & hope exile will bring. 'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely...

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

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...

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...

*Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020* Nganajungu Yagu is dedicated to Papertalk Green's mother, and is built around selected correspondence between Yagu and Daughter. It gently...

Winner of the 1985 Booker Prize The 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...

The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award....

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 ultimate book about growing up in Australia — a choice selection of wonderful stories and recollections This special collection is the perfect addition to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up'...

Says Van about her collection: ‘The old hill near where I grew up was outwardly ruined: its pines were dead, its vines gone to seed and its sheds, which once...

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...

Irreverent and courageous, Throat is a fierce cry that fights to be heard. This is van Neerven's most powerful work yet. not in Aus, mate bad things don't happen here...

* Signed copies available. Leave a note in your order if you'd like one! An imaginative, high concept and distinctive new collection from the winner of the Shapcott Prize and...

How to Write While Colonised: 2022 A 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,...

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...

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...