Indigenous / First Nations

A captivating debut poetry collection from the 2024 black&write! Fellowship winner. - you as, and in relation to, all things - at all times ma-li is the luminous debut poetry...

A highly charged crime-thriller - launching an electrifying new series featuring PI Vince Reid - by multi-award-winning prince of the twist, J.P. Pomare. PI Vince Reid is visiting an old friend when he's...

Introducing a queer, fast-paced standalone cyberpunk adventure from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician . . . only...

A twisty small-town PI mystery with a protagonist I didn't want to let go' IAN RANKIN 'Keeps readers on their toes from the opening page. His is a rare talent that...

A groundbreaking account of the people and places that have shaped Aboriginal Melbourne In Where's All the Community? Aboriginal Melbourne Revisited, Julie Andrews paints a vivid portrait of the Aboriginal...

Warlpiri people commemorate and maintain their relationship with their ancestors and the natural order of the cosmos by re-enacting the events of the Jukurrpa (the Dreaming). They do this, in...

Essays on Black Love, Black Power and Black Joy Providing critical context to some of the groundbreaking essays published across a range of digital platforms, Black thoughts matter honours the Black thinkers...

From the 2023 David Unaipon Award winner comes this powerful, poignant poetry collection that celebrates and reclaims Indigenous voices and language. Writing with a tender love for her Yugambeh language,...

Stunning speculative fiction from the award-winning author of Firelight.David is a scout. For ten years he has plundered the ruins of an alien civilisation about which he knows nothing. Now he's...

As we step into the shopping centre car park, white spray-paint on the orange brick wall catches my eye. Two council workers in high-vis shirts are on ladders, scrubbing away...

For generations, Indigenous peoples in Australia have faced systemic barriers to justice and are often denied the right to determine their own legal and cultural futures. Defending the Defenceless is...

Stories Thirteen stories of monsters, murder, and mayhem from a master of horror, the New York Times bestselling author of I Was a Teenage Slasher. Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes...

When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered questions. As their search turns to despair, Laurel’s...

An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent.  'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A...

From the internationally bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter comes an explosive story about seeking justice for a past that won't let you go. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Smith is on the run....

Rooted in visions of Indigenous futurisms, Beyond the Glittering World proclaims and celebrates a rising generation of Indigenous women and genderqueer storytellers. The collection brings together twenty-two emerging and established...

A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. The Wayfinder is an epic, sweeping novel set in the Polynesian islands of the...

'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...

Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers) What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a...

A chilling and masterfully terrifying horror novel about a young woman who is all that stands between malicious supernatural forces and the children in her care. Perfect for fans of...

Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Maori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print literacy within te ao Maori...

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more?Join designer and artist Alison Page alongside anthropologist and architect Paul Memmott as they share...

Translated by Alice Menzies 'An extraordinary story' Fredrik Backman, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove Meet Mariddja: eccentric, eighty-five years old, and facing a cancer diagnosis. She's determined...

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...

Discovering the Four Animals That Guide You Through Life From Shawn Leonard, Indigenous medium and host of Spirit Talker, comes a guide for assembling your unique team of spirit totem...

In her first book of nonfiction, prizewinning author Tina Makereti writes from inside her many intersecting lives as a wahine Māori – teacher, daughter, traveller, parent – and into a...

Iconic Māori activist, artist, and performer Tāme Iti shares his extraordinary life, defined by resistance, resilience, and rangatiratanga. Mana. It's a big word. But what is it? Are you born...

Stories WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS SUE KAUFMAN PRIZEWINNER OF THE...

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 Maori guidebook of the mind From the best-selling author of Aroha, Wawata, Waitohu and E Moko Dear Moko, comes a unique exploration of how to think about thinking, rooted in the wisdom of...

Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian...

The wildness and alienation of our contemporary anxieties - diagnoses, spiritualities, memes and mythologies - bring complexity and vitality to this impressive debut. The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick,...

A chilling historical horror set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation...

The bestselling author of The Bone Tree returns with an epic new novel set in Aotearoa in the 1940s. Muru is not revenge. Muru is about balance. You put your hands on...

In this gripping retelling of Persephone and Demeter in the Mexicali borderlands, three Mexican-American women from a haunted family must find the truth about the missing girls from their small...

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...

"Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit." -- Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in...

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...

Ember Lee Cardinal hasn't always been a liar . . . When Ember's resume is rejected for the thirty-seventh time, she decides to take matters into her own hands and get a little 'creative'...

Their love is the song of the summer. Native American pop star Avery Fox has become a national joke after a misjudged photoshoot leads to the entire internet dubbing her...

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...

An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from...

Professor Eustacia Rose is trying to get her old life back. But as always, things get more complicated when poisonous plants - and people - start to disappear . ....

A pulse-pounding and blood-soaked tale of survival on the highway as a hitchhiking teenager is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a brutal serial killer. Perfect...