Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
26.80 AUD
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Category: Indigenous Australians | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
31.50 AUD
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Category: Fiction
When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls they were more than just cousins- they were an inseparable duo, prepared to do anything to protect one another. There was no such thing as a 'secret' between the two girls, who lived their entire childhoods side by side.Then Selasi begins to change. She becomes wi ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
31.50 AUD
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Category: Fiction
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. An unforgettable story of artistry and unity under occupation. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with a ...Show more
Hospital by Sanya Rushdi
25.95 AUD
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Category: Fiction
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
32.99 AUD
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' Tara Westover, author of Educated 'To read it is to believe that words can save' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I've ever read' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun There ...Show more
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapesNoreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooperate ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION by Grace Blakeley
32.99 AUD
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines by Patricia Evangelista
42.99 AUD
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy--told through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens--from a journalist of international renown "Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
25.95 AUD
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Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Prizewinner - Nero Prize for Non Fiction 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'An absolute riot. I'm literally going to read it again once I've finished, and I'm a miserable bastard...it's a belter' - FRANKIE BOYLE'A set text for all of us in 2023' - DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITEA summary of my book:1. I'm dia ...Show more
Close to Home by Michael Magee
32.99 AUD
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Category: Fiction
Winner Nero Debut Fiction 2023 Devastating, tough and tender, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by violence and poverty but also by the courage to love and to surviveAnthony grew up brawling with the headcases round the estate, torching stolen cars, beaking school. His little brother Sean was ...Show more