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A stunning work of poetry from an award-winning First Nations writer, seamlessly weaving the personal and the political.This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting...

One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis.'It was the genius of the system ... from day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know...

A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers.It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid...

A spine-tingling middle-grade story about bringing joy to your family, even if they're a bunch of numbskulls.You'll never believe where SOLOMON MACARONI is heading...The world's friendliest vegetarian vampire and his six mischievous cousins are going to...

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 to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let...

A funny, feel-good picture book about a grandad doing the wrong things for the right reasons.My grandad is a rebel. We call him Granbad.Granbad doesn't believe in rules like screen-time limits or healthy snacks. But he does believe in saving the planet...

Winner of the 2022 Thomas Shapcott AwardTo be a man is to scrutinise all men. And then lie about it.In this striking debut, Jarad Bruinstroop offers a frank and tender exploration of Queer history, art, beauty and pain. These poems delight in the...

Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her...

A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal...

Written when the author was in prison, this collection remains a poignant historical plea for Aboriginal justice - from Black deaths in custody to Land Rights - and bears witness to contemporary Indigenous issues.Holocaust Island was the inaugural winner...

From the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. 2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that...

Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia- the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far west.Herb Wharton, former drover, now celebrated author, unleashes a...

The stunning sequel to the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling verse novel Inside Out & Back AgainI ache to know how much longer until clouds touch us, ending refugee living.It's been two years since H and her family arrived in Alabama as...

A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost ArabsIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary...

A 10-year anniversary edition of a classic Indigenous memoirWhen Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over six years, he transformed the...

Australia's leading compassion researcher explores the challenges of becoming a more compassionate person and developing a more compassionate societyWhen you think of compassion, what comes to mind? Kindness, understanding, tenderness, empathy, maybe...

Learn to count from one to ten in Mandarin on this joyful journey through Chinatown.It's ten blocks to the Big Wok, Mia and Uncle Eddie's favourite restaurant. On the walk there, Mia counts all the interesting things she sees - one giant panda, two lion...

The most inspirational and important memoir of 2022For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she...

An original and potent social history of the Great Barrier ReefWhile in the past Australians wrestled with what the Reef is, today they are struggling to reconcile what it will be... To do this, we need to understand the Reef's intertwining human story...

A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella PrizeIn this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and...

An evocative YA mash-up that's like Wuthering Heights meets Sherlock Holmes, with Taylor Swift's evermore as the soundtrack. Think Kristen Stewart playing Heathcliff, and Holmes and Watson as teenagers with social anxiety - all set on the beach.Cinnamon...

A collection of fascinating, highly relatable memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Australian Muslim.As a Pakistani-Australian teenager growing up in western Sydney, Sarah Malik came of age in the shadow of...

A collection of funny, brilliant, boundary-pushing stories from the bestselling author of MammothA grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an...

Small Town. Big Secrets. Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job in the Queensland town of Toowoomba. Her first house call is to nearby Crows Nest to assess the children of Sandra Kirby, which...

A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphorialet me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways.Rae White's much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to...

Solomon Macaroni is the sweetest vampire you've ever met. Can he survive one hundred years staying with his naughty prankster cousins?You've never met a vampire like Solomon Macaroni before - he's friendly, polite and makes a mean tofu Bolognese...

Imagine your dad gets the top job but isn't exactly up to it. Then he sneaks off on holiday, leaving the country without a leader. What would you do?When Harper's dad becomes the prime minister of Australia he's terrible at it. He was thrust into the top...

This third novel from acclaimed Queensland author Sally Piper focuses on the repercussions, within one family, of a terrible crime.Even though sixteen years have passed, Billie will never recover from the murder of her daughter, Jess, and clings to her...

A world-first collection of blackfella speculative fiction from well-known and emerging First Nations writers.The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas,...

A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your futureJoey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one...

A revealing and powerful memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships.'It's hard to know exactly when the friendship with Gina ended. It could have been when the sudden text message from her arrived, or it could have been a slow slide out of...

A moving story about a shy girl coming out of her shell with a little help from her pet snailLucy and Dad move a lot, so it's hard to make friends. Lucy's glad she has Snail, the perfect pet for a lonely girl. If only she had her own shell to hide in...

The compelling story of one woman's journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity.'Now you're over twenty-one and back from overseas, I've decided it's time to tell you...

From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world.The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy.A...

From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.These richly allusive poems weigh violence and...

A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie...

A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First...

A timeless story of brothers, boats and birds, from an award-winning storyteller.Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke sketches birds, while Ben leaps off the Jumping Tree. The boys couldn't be more...

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.the end of the world was marked with beautiful light we should have known Simmering with protest and boundless love, Jazz Money's David Unaipon Award-winning...

From the beloved author of Wombat Warriors, Mister Cassowary and Turtle Trackers comes another thrilling adventure about Australia's endangered animals.Eleven-year-old Killarney thinks school is boring. She'd much rather be exploring the wilderness...

A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain top airdrop. In a story that is...

A powerful story about a young girl, Mina, and how she copes when her family take in a refugee boy and give away what was meant to be her first very-own bedroom. Mina wants her own bedroom more than anything else in the whole wide world. And it's almost...

A sparkling queer YA romance set in Brisbane, Henry Hamlet's Heart follows one guy and his sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey to love.I'm losing it because I kissed you / Because I kissed you I might lose you.Henry Hamlet doesn't know...

As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also,...

From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet.Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and...

A timely and important collection of poems by the award-winning author of The White Girl and Blood.In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the...

The sequel to Claire Zorn's acclaimed debut The Sky So Heavy. A heart-stopping dystopian YA set in the Australian bush. Instinct has kept us alive so far. It's like a compass and I tune in to the needle often- trust/don't trust, run/stay . . . I can't...

An invaluable guide to understanding and living with dementia, and for maintaining a healthy brain. There are steps you can take to reduce your risk of dementia, to delay its onset, and to ease the journey if the condition does occur. Over 400,000...