Pathfinders: A History of Aboriginal Trackers in NSW
Michael Bennett
There are few Aboriginal icons in White Australia history....
Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970
'Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970' offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicises the practices of non-Indigenous art music composers evoking Aboriginal music in their works, placing this in the context of emerging cultural institutions and policy frameworks. Centralising auditory worlds and audio-visual evidence, Harris shows the direct relationship between the limits on Aboriginal people's mobility and non-Indigenous...
The Convict Valley: The Bloody Struggle on Australia's Early Frontier
Mark Dunn
In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names, and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia....
A Treacherous Country
K.M. Kruimink
Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's desire, and compelled to distance himself from pain at home, Gabriel begins his quest into Van Diemen's Land. His guide, a cannibal who is not all he seems, leads him north where Gabriel might free himself of his distracting burden and seek the woman he must find. As Gabriel traverses this wild country, he uncovers new truths buried within his own memory. Authentic, original and playful, 'A Treacherous Country' is a novel of loyalty, wisdom and the freedom to act.
Andrew Pippos
'Lucky's' is a story of family.A story about migration.It is also about a man called Lucky.His restaurant chain.A fire that changed everything.A New Yorker article which might save a career.The mystery of a missing father.An impostor who got the girl.An unthinkable tragedy.A roll of the dice. And a story of love—lost, sought and won again (at last). Following a trail of cause and effect that spans decades, this unforgettable epic tells a story about lives bound together by the pursuit of love, family, and new beginnings.
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other....
Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies appear alongside poems that set a pulse to new life, biometric surveillance, leaf blowers, fatbergs, mechanical pets and military coups. A work of fiercely intelligent artistry, 'Change Machine' is shaped, equally, by felling—its wild originality comes from how it forces the two together.
Homer Street
Laurie Duggan
A leading figure in Australian poetry, Laurie Duggan has been long celebrated for his vividly sensed observations of everyday life and his minimal and urbane style....
Nothing to Declare
Mags Webster
A collection of poetry by Western Australian-based poet Mags Webster, 'nothing to declare' contains poems ranging 'through worlds of wide reading, inner and outer journeying, through both the historic and the personal past and present, the fleshly and the vegetal ... subtle and confronting at the same time, these are the fruits of a startling talent' (Tracy Ryan, poet). Sometimes set in Australia or Hong Kong, sometimes in the imagined worlds of literary figures or in the life of the mind, these poems probe myriad interstices between words and silences, poetry and language, attraction and...
Shorter Lives
John A Scott
John A. Scott's Shorter Lives burrows below the received biographies of seven Modernist artists/writers to disinter the various secrets that arguably underpin, explain and give force to their work. Employing a blend of innovative sonnet-sequences and prose poems these new 'histories' break from existing biographies, offering alternative facts and believable untruths, to become a probing of Modernity itself. 'While brilliant throughout, Scott is at his best when considering the depravities and excesses of the male artistic ego, and the corresponding traumas it inflicts on the lives of the...
The January Stars
Kate Constable
When twelve-year-old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit their Pa at his aged-care facility, they have no idea that the three of them will soon set out on an intrepid adventure. Along the way there are many challenges for Tash and Clancy to overcome and in the process, they discover their own resourcefulness and resilience and demonstrate their heartfelt love for their grandfather.
The Year the Maps Changed
Danielle Binks
One extraordinary year will change them all......
Georgina Young
Lona has dropped out of art school and no one is quite sure why, least of all Lona. It's just that nothing in her life seems to make sense anymore, including art. She spends her days sneaking into the darkroom at her old school to develop photographs and her nights DJ-ing at the local roller disco....
The End of the World is Bigger than Love
Davina Bell
She said we didn't know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that tiny island, in that tiny church....
The F Team
Rawah Arja
Meet Tariq Nader, leader of 'The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. When the team is formed, Tariq learns there's a major catch—half of the team is made up of white boys from Cronulla, aka enemy territory—and he must compete with their strongest player for captaincy of the team....
When Rain Turns to Snow
Jane Godwin
A runaway, a baby and a whole lot of questions......
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate great Australian literature. 2021 Award applications are closed.
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading
Tegan Bennett Daylight has led a life in books—as a writer, a teacher and a critic, but first and foremost as a reader. In this deeply insightful and intimate work, Daylight describes how her reading has nourished her life, and how life has informed her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection—the details—that really matter: what we notice when someone close to us dies; when we give birth; when we make friends. In life's disasters and delights, the details are what we can share and compare and carry with us. Daylight writes with invigorating candour and...
In the Time of Foxes
Jo Lennan
'A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.'...
The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
Jaclyn Moriarty
Long ago, the little Prince of Cloudburst was stolen from the seashore by a Water Sprite. Now, ten years later, the prince has found his way home. The King and Queen are planning the biggest party in their Kingdom's history to welcome him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Kingdoms and Empires, Esther Mettlestone-Staranise is looking forward to another year at Katherine Valley Boarding School. But she arrives to find a number of strange and unsettling changes. For one, her new teacher is rumoured to be an Ogre. Two mysterious students have joined the school, and one of Esther's classmates...