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A ground-breaking work — and a call to arms — that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea...

we are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man...

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....

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Poet Omar Sakr's debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them.An estranged father. An abused...

From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA novel about sixteen-year-old Jamie Langton finding his future and navigating the challenges of racism,...

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 of...

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 taking...

Shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA Social Impact Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards and the 2024...

Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and remarkable' — TRENT DALTON'Memorable and vivid' — RICHARD GLOVER'Lands with a thump in your heart' —...

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...

He Who Drowned the World is the sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller She Who Became the Sun. What would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant...

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 his...

With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution.Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic,...

Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future.Nala and Rajan, a young couple,...

Despite the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family — and destroyed the hero, Nick.But her success has come at a terrible cost.She alone remembers...