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    The Terrible Event
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    The Terrible Event

    From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet.A public memorial's name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two...
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  • if this is the end
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    if this is the end

    A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what it means to work through childhood trauma and love yourself in the...
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  • Refugia
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    Refugia

    'in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...'Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space...
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  • Close to the Subject
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    Close to the Subject

    **Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024, Non-fiction**This book is a collected works of one of Australia's most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces...
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  • Lemons in the Chicken Wire
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    Lemons in the Chicken Wire

    Winner 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship a partnership between the State Library ofQueensland's black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala BooksFrom a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes...
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  • Guwayu, for all times
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    Guwayu, for all times

    I travel Country, like my Old People done. I see the Country, like my Old People done I burn Country, like my Old People done. I sing Country, like my Old People done -Jacob Morris,Ban Maganindadjyang (My Old People Done)Guwayu, For All Timesis a...
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  • maar bidi: next generation black writing
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    maar bidi: next generation black writing

    In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is important to them. maar bidi is a journey into what it is to be young,...
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  • Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
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    Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja

    This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western...
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  • The Boy from Birdum
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    The Boy from Birdum

    Bill Dempsey is a humble achiever. He is known primarily as a champion footballer with West Perth and the Darwin Buffaloes. A premiership captain who played over 400 games in 20 seasons in Perth and the Northern Territory, and a member of the...
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  • Blakwork
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    Blakwork

    WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award SHORTLISTED 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry) SHORTLISTED 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary...
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  • Ninu Grandmothers' Law
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    Ninu Grandmothers' Law

    ' This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I want people to know about my life.'Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional...
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  • Yorro Yorro
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    Yorro Yorro

    Aboriginal Elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that constitutes the oldest collective memory of humankind. Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation spirits and their 'crossing over' into ancestral beings...
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    The Shield and the Spear
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    The Shield and the Spear

    ** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 **'... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able to cut through the bureaucracy to make change. To be able to protect things that are important to...
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  • Kalyakoorl, Ngalak Warangka
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    Kalyakoorl, Ngalak Warangka

    Kalyakoorl, ngalak warangka, (Forever, we sing), is a celebration of rare Noongar language, and the things we share as community. Over many years, Noongar language has been reduced to a whisper, there are currently less than 400 fluent speakers.The...
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  • Cartwarra or what?
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    Cartwarra or what?

    You are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An' um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar manCartwarra or what? Selected poems and stories is a compendium of Alf's works that span several literary...
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  • FIFO - Fit In or F**k Off!
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    FIFO - Fit In or F**k Off!

    JONO: 'Sometimes it feels like...' [Pause]. 'I don't fit in at home! I'm tryin' to juggle two worlds here and if you don't tell me things, it gets easier and easier to keep my life at camp separate to my life at home.'FIFO Fit In or F**k Off! explores...
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  • Memoirs from the Corner Country
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    Memoirs from the Corner Country

    'Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament to her physical adventures...yet she remained the epitome of femininity and strength.' - Gail Hunt, youngest...
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  • Growing up Wiradjuri
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    Growing up Wiradjuri

    Age range 7+'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' - Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a...
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  • More Than These Bones
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    More Than These Bones

    More Than These Bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author's journey through heartbreak and self-discovery. The book is rooted in place. Pieces land in multiple settings the bar, the beach, the bush and sometimes, the bedroom,...
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  • Seafaring
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    Seafaring

    'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not need modern scientific proof to have validity - the role of story in Indigenous...
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  • She is the Earth
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    She is the Earth

    **Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Book of the Year****Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Indigenous Writer's Prize**She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann...
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  • Jack of Hearts QX11594
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    Jack of Hearts QX11594

    'It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother's stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and...
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    Traditional Healers of the Central Desert
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    Traditional Healers of the Central Desert

    Traditional Healers of the Central Desertcontains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert...
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  • My Longest Round
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    My Longest Round

    I've been fighting since the day I was born. No, I've been fighting from the time I was curled up inside my mother's belly. The day my father shot himself in the head, that's when my fight started. - Wally CarrThe life story of Australian and...
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  • You call it desert - we used to live there
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    You call it desert - we used to live there

    The first draft of this book was written under a tree on the slope of a sandhill where, for several years, Englishwoman Pat Lowe shared a desert camp with her lifetime partner, Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike. While spending time in the red heart of country...
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  • Last Truck Out
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    Last Truck Out

    WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal...
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  • Once in Broome
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    Once in Broome

    In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after the war kids', Sally's lifestyle was embedded in the many cultural traditions of...
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  • Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
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    Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?

    Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span decades and lead her to search for her birth family. In the historic climate of the Rudd...
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  • A Home for Bilby
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    A Home for Bilby

    A Home for Bilby is an engaging picture book that takes children on a journey through the Australian outback and the habitats of the animals that live there. Join Kangaroo, Emu, Platypus, Wombat and Koala as they find a home for their new friend Bilby. A...
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    The Man From the Sunrise Side

    This is the autobiography of Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri, a Kwini man from the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Ambrose speaks out honestly, without malice or accusation, on a number of subjects including the appropriation of rock art, the...
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  • A Boy's Life
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    A Boy's Life

    Age range 12 to 17Autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book...
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    rock flight
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    rock flight

    A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people.rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine's...
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    John Berger and Me
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    John Berger and Me

    The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the...
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    Mourning a Breast
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    Mourning a Breast

    In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and treatment. Mourning a Breast, published two and a half years later, is a disarmingly honest and deeply...
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    Song in the Grass
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    Song in the Grass

    Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan's most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives begun in...
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    Tintinnabulum
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    Tintinnabulum

    Judith Beveridge's much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places, though you could say that the real subject matter is the...
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    Naag Mountain
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    Naag Mountain

    Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and...
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    Critic Swallows Book
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    Critic Swallows Book

    In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious...
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    Monument
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    Monument

    An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy's fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past -...
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    The Cyprian
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    The Cyprian

    Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various formsFrom poems of desire and sexual longing to poems of love in the face of death, The Cyprian explores the joy and heartbreak love weaves into our lives. The collection confronts some...
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    How to Be Between
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    How to Be Between

    How to Be Between is a memoir about female facial hair, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and negotiating identity for those visibly between gender binaries. Young women's bodies are relentlessly scrutinised and judged, so for most, the appearance of facial...
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    Late Journals
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    Late Journals

    The last work by Antigone Kefala, renowned for both her poetry and her prose, one of the first writers to open Australian literature to a diversity of voices, and of the most distinctive and powerful of those voices.Late Journals completes a trilogy of...
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    Acanthus
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    Acanthus

    New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia's richest lyrical poets.Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between...
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    Human Looking
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    Human Looking

    The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to...
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    Last Letter to a Reader
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    Last Letter to a Reader

    Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as 'a genius on the level of Beckett'.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane's...
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    Beneath the Tree Line
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    Beneath the Tree Line

    Jane Gibian's poetry is remarkable for its clarity of perception and its sensitivity to the details and rhythms of life - whether in nature or in social routines. The poetry's engagement is first and foremost with the natural environment, and with the...
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    Sydney Spleen
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    Sydney Spleen

    Sydney Spleen takes Charles Baudelaire's concept of spleen as melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything and combines it with a contemporary sense of irony so as to articulate the causes of our doom and gloom: corporate...
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    Gentle and Fierce
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    Gentle and Fierce

    New collection of essays on the relationships between humans and animals, by Vanessa Berry, author of Mirror Sydney, and the memoir of adolescence Ninety9.Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the...
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