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The Art and Activism of Complaining A moving exploration of the solace and power of listening in an unjust world, from the author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook'Behind many disasters are...

The globe-spanning epic of power and family secrets from the Miles Franklin listed author.'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer.' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestAfter many...

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...

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...

A luminous, beautifully observed novel about the people we once were, and the people we can become – if only we're brave enough to try. 1990: Indu and Vijay leave...

An unreliable ethnic memoir A laugh-out-loud story of culture, family and surviving suburbia, from one of the most exciting new comic voices in Australia If you've ever had someone try...

In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity.The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles....

An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find...

An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo - poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed - that bears witness to the genocide in GazaThe Nightmare Sequence is a searing response...

Rising talent Omar Sakr's vibrant new poetry collection pulses with raw power as it interrogates the topical issues of family, identity and nationVisceral and energetic, Omar Sakr's poetry confronts notions...

A brilliantly warm-hearted NEW series from Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward, full of high school longing, friendship, footy matches, and dreams to change the world! It's funny how your life...

**Winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award** Time. Memory. Mirror. Past & Parallel Lives is a rippling reflection on being alien, queer, and other. These poems yearn for home and...

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...

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little oases of wildness, joy, and...

Some passions just can't be tamed ... Brynn thought she'd be chasing her dreams, not chasing dogs, when she set off on the adventure of a lifetime. When Bigambul woman...

*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...

Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world...

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...

Some secrets should never be kept — a candid and heartfelt memoir about authenticity, difference, resilience, hope and love by an exciting new Australian voice My family may have been...

'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as...

*One of Kirkus' Best Young Adult Books of 2021* Four troubled friends, one murdered girl... and a dark fate that may leave them all doomed. The Descendants meets Pretty Little...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the...

Carapace takes for its title an extension of the idea of shelter, protection and home and attempts to crack the outer shell of language to reveal the vulnerability of language...

Tom Cho's collection of fictions and fantasies is all about morphing and transformation. Through the shape-shifting, we follow the narrator on his surreal adventures, which include dirty dancing with Johnny...

Reclaiming myself, my people, my country A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities My story...

HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who...

Transcend limiting beliefs and transform your life, so that you can manifest your limitless potential. Part inspiration, part memoir, Unbounded is for people who wish to explore their own identity...

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...

A coming-of-age cozy fantasy with a queer cast, witches, and tarot. Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Our Flag Means Death.Iris Galacia's tarot cards do more than entertain...

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...

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...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan – a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She...

'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...

SHORTLISTED for the 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers; 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Indigenous Writing Prize; 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Indigenous Writers' Prize; 2022 Adelaide Festival...

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...

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...

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...

From an award-winning First Nations author, a ground-breaking examination of sport's troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality. Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning...

Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award Ellen van Neerven's award-winning collection of stories was inspired by the elements, and is exceptionally imaginative and varied. In this award-winning work of...

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...

Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. The focus...

Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law...

A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost Arabs In this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep...