Indigenous / First Nations

From Indigenous scholar Yuria Celidwen comes a first-of-its-kind book about our aspiration for sustainable, collective flourishing through Indigenous wisdom, traditions, and practices that bridge Indigenous and Western knowledges and ways....

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...

Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists....

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL auē1. (verb) to cry,...

Best of the Year: NPR - Common Sense Media - BookPage - Kirkus Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families...

  A National Indie BestsellerNebula Award FinalistTIME's Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer. Elatsoe--Ellie...

The much-awaited follow-up to the award-winning international bestseller Auē.In Auē, eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in motion...

Poorhara is the story of nineteen-year-old Erin, her older cousin Star/Whetu and an impromptu road trip taken over a few days. With the demands and heartbreaks of whanau, poverty and...

Maori have lived on Te Tai Poutini for at least as long as anywhere else on these islands called New Zealand, bound by ancient stories and a unique affinity to...

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women...

Places and People of the New Zealand Wars An accessible guide to significant places and people of the New Zealand Wars from a Maori perspective. This comprehensive guidebook journeys through...

In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General’s Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense,...

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...

A collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez.  The seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, Call This Mutiny brings together...

Translated by Saskia Vogel A Guardian Top 5 Best Translated Fiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureThe award-winning, deeply moving novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence...

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 Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse Spiritual and community lessons for embracing collective care, co-creating sustainable worlds, and responsibly meeting...

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...

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty's debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture, and inheritance, and...

Award-winning and best-sellling, Mau Moko is the closest there has ever been to a 'complete' book on moko. 'Very likely to become the definitive work on the subject . ....

Nolan works customer service. He's the last employee of video game developer Nitrox, and the last person anywhere to understand the game Camopede. Nobody's called him for help in years-but...

It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gather to show off their family recipes, learn new secrets for the perfect shortcake, and...

From the New York Timesbestselling author of the Indian Lake trilogy: Three stories that uncover what's lurking just beyond your headlights... Take a road trip into your darkest nightmares with three stories...

**Winner, This Is Horror Award****Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award****Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award** A collection of 15 stories that feature, among others, zombies, a hardboiled detective, a giant...

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...

‘Not knowing if your dad will live through the night is not something that any young son or daughter should ever have to endure. I experienced this nightmare more times...

My Story of Love, Loss and Victory Honey, Hunz, Honey Bill, Arneta, Aunty, Whaea, Mum, Nan. From 'town bully' to multiple world champion, single mum, and pioneering TV commentator –...

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...

HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary....

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...

An Economy of Gifts and Abundance From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community'This book will...

It's 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Maui, Aotearoa. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush; a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her...

Polly and Wiki and all the other kuia ride on the roof of Kerry’s Toyota Corona with its navy blistered bonnet . . . They do this for all the moko; they...

Food stories & recipes from the maunga to the moana Nau mai, haere mai ki tenei kai hakari wainene! Christall Lowe invites you to a hakari (feast) at her family...

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...

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deep understanding of the expertise, wisdom and ingenuity...

Food Stories and Recipes from my Family Table The gathering of food and the gathering of people to share a meal are at the heart of Maori family life. Award-winning...

Mō tātou, ā, mō kā uri a muri ake nei. For us and our children after us.Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of...

'This is a story about the power of art to help us find a way through the darkness. It is about how art can bring out the best in us,...

A literary-thriller murder mystery, set within a Native American community for fans of Firekeeper's Daughter, Sadie and the One of Us Is Lying series by a debut own voices author Since moving to the Blackfeet...

An inspiring exploration of womanhood, trauma and healing When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a...

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...

The Generations-long Fight For Justice On Native Land ‘Breathtaking… a triumph' NOREEN MASUD 'A fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller' TIYA MILES 'Compellingly told and deeply researched' CAROLINE...

Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE • Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner • HONOLULU Magazine’s Book of the Year About Hawai`i “Stunning . . . An...

From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love during the frontier wars. Miinaa was a young girl when the white...