Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult
This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, ...Show more
To Her Credit - Historic Achievements--And the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen by Kaitlin Culmo (Contribution by); Emily McDermott (Contribution by); Kezia Gabriella (Contribution by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit will make you reevaluate our collective story as it has been written. This book celebrates the stories of ...Show more
Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: Adult
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
The Tribe by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$29.95 AUD
Category: Adult
A path-breaking prize-winning novel, published to acclaim ten years ago, now presented in a new edition with an introduction by Dr Jumana Bayeh. A path-breaking prize-winning novel, published to acclaim ten years ago, now presented in a new edition with an introduction by Dr Jumana Bayeh.For the last th ...Show more
Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Sarah Gilbert
$38.00 AUD
Category: Adult
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they ...Show more
The Furphy Anthology 2020 by The Furphy Literary Awards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Joseph Furphy wrote the Australian literary classic, Such is Life, in 1903, under the pen name of ‘Tom Collins’, slang for ‘a tall story’. With its unreliable narrator travelling the countryside and telling the stories of the people he meets, the alias was certainly appropriate. His brother John, a bla ...Show more
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more
The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn ...Show more
Theory of Colours by Bella Li
$30.00 AUD
Category: Adult
Theory of Colours takes as its title and point of departure the influential nineteenth-century treatise on colour by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In Li’s third full-length collection, colour — and its absence — is at once subject, structural principle and medium. Moving from the distant past, through the fle ...Show more
God Forgets About the Poor by Peter Polites
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
I will tell you why you should draft my story. Because migrant stories are broken. Some parts in a village where we washed our clothing with soot. Some parts in big cities working in factories. How we starved for food in Greece and starved for Greece in Australia. You don’t know the first thing about m ...Show more