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The unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get...

A gripping tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Koori teenager Darcy Mango is young, broke and on parole. His biggest problem isn't...

A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he...

What happens when global systems are viewed from an Indigenous perspective? How does it affect the way we see history, money, power and learning? Could it change the world? This...

The story of the Tamil family that captured our hearts It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumps on the front door signalled the start of...

Memoir-essays from an award-winning writer, exploring race, sex, familial expectations, and identity. Raised by strict, religious, Malaysian Chinese parents in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Yen-Rong Wong internalised an idealised image of...

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share...

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 –...

Letters and Reflections from First Nations Fathers and Sons Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism. Along with his own...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S AWARD FOR FICTION‘her writing is poetic and reverential. The author’s understanding...

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...

Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and ConnectionA blend of memoir, essay and affirmations exploring love in all its forms.Be Not Afraid of Loveis a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations...

One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and GratitudeA Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local...

Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.Zia secretly longs...

‘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...

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...

A Whimsical Journey through Gardens and LifeIt is spring in Melbourne and I am not there.I had a taste for it before I left for India. The japonica was flowering...

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...

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...

FROM BUSH KID TO AFL LEGEND Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for decades. Even fewer transcend sport...

Exploring practices such as Songlines, architecture and design, land management, astronomy, botany and law, this series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the...

Memories and stories from my family’s kitchen Practically any home-cooked Japanese meal revolves around rice. It sits beside miso soup, pickles, tofu and a piece of grilled fish at breakfast....

Join Ryhia Dank, aka Nardurna, on a journey through Country. For Indigenous peoples and allies alike, Ryhia invites you to engage with the stories, places and art from her world...

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,...

Disability, Humanity, and the NDIS What ails the NDIS? Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a...

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...

It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. WINNER OF THE ABIA...

Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in...

Aflame begins in Soviet Moscow and ends with a Tibetan Buddhist monk's self-immolation; residing between them - improvisations after celebrated Japanese Haikus. Written in an intricate and polyphonic structure, Subhash...

The classic memoir of an Aboriginal woman’s love and determinationAuntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994....

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...

First Nations Collectives, Collaborations and Creative Practices from across Victoria Collective Movements is a wide-ranging project focusing on the work of historic and contemporary First Nations creative practitioners and community...

How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person This is a book about being successful, fulfilled and happy in a world in which...

Eh? You want bodies, blood, sex, gore, damning gods, raw uppercuts?Why, yes. Pooja Mittal Biswas welcomes you into the ring of identity and the hunt for an honest and rapier...

A ground-breaking collection of First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ poets, writers and storytellers published to commemorate Sydney WorldPride being held on the unceded lands of the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Bidigal, Dharawal and...

A stunning debut novel of a family torn apart by tradition and brought back together again by loveTheir mother was sick. Their mother was dying. Laila wanted her to come...

Canoeing Ancient Songlines'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle’s...

She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We...

This debut collection of poetry explores the threads and gaps in family and national story — both oral and archival — to connect multiple generations of migration, separation, adoption, secrecy...

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...

Edited by Margot Neale Past, Present and Future What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of...

'The gut-truths presented in Benevolence are tied to a larger reckoning needed in Australian society one that involves a centring of First Nation voices, a willingness to address not just a violent...

This is the story of the Vietnamese boat people — a real-life drama and action at sea, depicting the best and worst of humanity under adversity, trying to survive the...

This is a raw, gritty, inspiring, eye-opening true story of one woman's life that represents the lives of so many other Aboriginal women like her.Life is tough for the Connell...

A science-fiction novel involving clones, a psychic, and empathy as a recreational drug.We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I...Empathy consists of two stories...

A groundbreaking book that will broaden and expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, a clinician, someone who loves a survivor, or someone seeking to understand abuse.The relationship...

A hauntingly beautiful love story about the ties that bind from award-winning author, Simone Lazaroo.Elspeth is full of inexpressible longings — to leave behind her beginnings in a small wheatbelt...

First Nations wisdom and womanhood.'I laughed, shed tears and felt those goosebumps when you know your soul is being spoken to and nourished.' — Chelsea Watego'If you've ever dimmed your...

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: 'What is your confession, my child?' I was stuffed. The priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call...

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,...