Benang: From the Heart

Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award (2000)

Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self.

As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?

ISBN: 9781925164442 | Published: 27 February 2017 (first published 1999) | Hard cover | 500 pages