The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult
A woman who can't swim wades into a suburban pool. An Indian family sits down to an Australian Christmas dinner. A single mother's offer to coach her son's soccer team leads to an unexpected encounter. A recent migrant considers taking the fall for a second generation 'friend'. A wife refuses to let her ...Show more
Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$16.99 AUD
Category: Adult | Reading Level: 12+
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat is on a mission. She believes a handful of soil from her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem will save her beloved Sitti Zeynab's life. The only problem is the impenetrable wall that divides the West Bank, as well as the check points, the curfews, the permit system and Hay ...Show more
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah,Sara Saleh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures. Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, an ...Show more
Sweatshop Women - Volume Two by Dunn Winnie
$19.95 AUD
Category: Adult
Sweatshop Women is an exciting and contemporary collection of prose and poetry written by women from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. In this second volume, Australia's most urgent new voices return to reclaim their stories of culture, sovereignty and diaspora.
Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage: Language Revival and Hecate by Clint Bracknell, Kylie Bracknell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian First Nations' Languages
The play Hecate is a landmark work in both theatre and language restoration. The Noongar language of the southwest of Western Australia is a critically endangered language impacted by settler-colonialism and suppressed until the 1970s. This book contains the complete play, a glossary, and chapters outli ...Show more
Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry by Saba Vasefi (Editor); Melinda Smith (Editor); Yvette Holt (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Adult
Borderless presents a collection of brand new, specially commissioned poems from a wide range of contemporary poets refl ecting on feminism in its broadest sense. While it builds on the work of previous anthologies, in this one the voices of First Nations, refugee and migrant poets are a deliberate focu ...Show more
The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet ...Show more
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier''s Literary Awards ''Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.'' Christos T ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
$27.99 AUD
Category: Adult
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious. Songs for the Dead and the Living is a comingof-age ta ...Show more
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A funny and pertinent book about being lesbian, bisexual, gay, queer, transgender or just curious - for everybody, no matter their gender or sexualityFormer PSHCE teacher and acclaimed YA author Juno Dawson gives an uncensored look at what it's like to grow up as LGBT. Including testimonials from peopl ...Show more
The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life by Paul Callaghan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path has always been there, but in the modern-day world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career that it can be hard to remember what's most important- you. It's time to reconnect with your story. ...Show more