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'Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette RussellSonglines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000...

Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter Curated and introduced by two-time Miles Franklin winner, Noongar man Kim Scott, this special volume brings together 23 First Nations...

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...

The scorching, much-anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize for DropbearThe Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world....

The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nation For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into...

Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author Debra Dank, comes a book about the discovery of having family members taken, and the secrets that...

Meanjin 1977 to Today‘This is writing about us, by us’, as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier.First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

How the world's ancient serpent stories can guide us By the renowned author of Sand Talk and Right Story, Wrong Story, and First Nations researcher Megan Kelleher, comes this fascinating investigation into the...

A breathtaking debut poetry collection from black&write! fellowship winner Dakota Feirer. 'Where wisdom made me there's a ceremony groundpiling with dead leaves. So much, I lit a cultural fire by...

A Savage Turn is a searing debut from a Gamilaroi author. Using his biting wit and refreshing insight into modern and traditional life, Luke Patterson takes readers to forest billabongs,...

Illustrated by Dub Leffler We first met Mia in Black Cockatoo as she navigated her way through culture, Country and familial ties. The second book Dirrarn, follows Mia as she...

A sharp and insightful coming-of-age story about all the ways we find home from an exciting debut author and 2022 black&write! Fellow. When I look back, I realise everything I...

The new genre-defying book from the two-time Prime Minister's Award winning author of Red Heaven and Belomor. A Siberian composer named Valentin comes to a remote roadhouse in the Western...

In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Jackie Huggins and Ann McGrath, leading historians and thinkers explore the First Nations histories of caring for places and people over millennia....

From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life. 'Mothers are experts...

A graceful meditation on how ceremony and ritual can nourish our lives - and a powerful testament to the wisdom of First Nations practices, offering deeper ways to understand the...

Not Telling is a lyrical analysis of the possibilities and limitations of language. In three distinct sections it entwines notions of speech and silence with intolerable psychic matter such as...

A sweeping historical love story that brings Torres Straight Islander culture to life. For readers of Anita Heiss. A sweeping, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant story of the life of a...

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...

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...

WINNER: 2016 Indigenous Writer's Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary AwardsWINNER: 2016 Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary AwardsSHORTLISTED: 2014 History Book Award in the Queensland Literary...

Plains of Promise is a masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's...

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...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Samuel Wagan Watson, Dancing Home is part road-movie, part 'Koori-noir' from an original and darkly funny new voice.'When he was...

Putting culture back in Agriculture.A young, entrepreneurial Worimi man leaps into the discussion of agriculture on this land on which we live, its past, but more importantly, its future.Yarning across...

How to own the narrative of your life Get inspired, get motivated, and get ready to be the main character in your own epic narrative. 'Bianca Hunt is incredible, witty,...

One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompanies the April release ofPraiseworthy, Wright’s...

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...

A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great...

Home can be a building, it can be a person, it can be a place. In Sweet Home, 28 students from Ḏawurr Boarding House in Nhulunbuy have written heart-felt stories...

Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between A collection of witty and heartfelt essays about love, loss and ambition, from journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman Brooke Boney....

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...

Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always Aboriginal land rights recognition in 1983 came after nearly 200 years of violent colonial dispossession and the near complete loss...

Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven...

Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever.In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen...

Indigenous artists from across the planet provide truth-telling about the past and inspiration to imagine better futures. marramarra (a Wiradjuri word meaning to create, make or do) explores how contemporary...

Celebrating First Nations Languages An exquisite celebration of First Nations languages from a selection of Australia's finest Indigenous writers, all wrapped up in a handsome hardback that's perfect for Christmas...

Shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year AwardFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love...

Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country,...

A ground-breaking essay collection that shifts the shape of what First Nations writing can be and do in Australia todayShapeshifting, co-edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, is a...

We Are Still Here A blockbuster memoir from one of Australia's most powerful voices, Long Yarn Short is the incredible story of a young woman's journey - from being stolen...

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...

From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life. 'Mothers are experts...

The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues In Always Was, Always Will Be, bestselling author Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed October 2023...

From award-winning author, Jane Harrison, comes an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. WINNER OF THE...

A wonderful coming-of-age queer romance from the multi award-winning author of The Boy from the Mish. Jonah is the new kid in a country town. When he joins the local...

How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology A powerful memoir that explores how one Indigenous woman from the Pilbara transformed psychology From humble beginnings in the remote...

WINNER OF THE 2018 BLACK&WRITE! FELLOWSHIP WINNER OF THE 2021 THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE 2021 ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE AWARDS (AUSTRALIAN...

A feisty, funny and poignant novel - about being 17; being Indigenous and navigating high school, cultural and personal expectations and responsibility - by proud Ydinji woman Steph Tisdell, writer,...

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...