Fiction, novels | Archie Weller

Aboriginal author Archie Weller has become an important voice in contemporary Indigenous writing. The Window Seat is a collection of 19 of his best short fiction—some award-winning, some previously unpublished and some of the first stories he ever…

Fiction, novels | Larissa Behrendt

Home is an award-winning work from a talented and unique voice. A cross-generational story spanning 1916 to 1995, it explores issues of racial and social injustice while circling poetically around the one abiding theme of 'home'.Candice, a Murri…

Fiction, novels | Larissa Behrendt

In her second novel, Larissa tells the story of Simone Harlowe, a young and clever Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Simone's family life back in Sydney is defined by the complex relationship she has…

Fiction, novels | Patricia Wrightson

The Nargun And The Stars tells the story of a modern day, but recently orphaned, boy coming to live in a remote Australian valley where he searches for a place free from the depredation of mankind and its machinery. On his quest he discovers a…

Fiction, novels | Philip McLaren

New Year's Day. The bodies of a young Aboriginal woman and her boyfriend are discovered brutally murdered in Sydney's Redfern. Koori detectives Gary Leslie and Lisa Fuller, from the new Aboriginal Homicide Unit of the NSWPD, are assigned to their…

History | Bain Attwood, Andrew Markus

On 27 May 1967 a remarkable event occurred: An overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people.Today it is commonly regarded as a turning point in the…

History | Bain Attwood

Possession: Contemporary life in remote Aboriginal Australia tells the fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia. It contemplates why whites forged these agreements, how the Aboriginal…

History | John Maynard

Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in the vibrant 1960's, which culminated in the famous Tent Embassy in 1972. Rather, the first politically organised…

History | Richard Broome

Updated 5th edition (November 2019)Prof Richard Broome's Aboriginal Australians has been published since 1982 and since has been one of the key general texts about Aboriginal people. Aboriginal Australians is a powerful history of race relations in…

History | Josephine Flood

This immensely readable book discusses the history of human occupation of Australia from the initial peopling of the continent to the advent of European colonists. Using not only the latest archaeological evidence but also information from myths…

History | Josephine Flood

Josephine Flood presents an illustrated history of the development of Australia's Aboriginal rock paintings and engravings. From the earliest examples the world's oldest rock art, desert varnish, and engravings to the most recent findings and…

History | Christobel Mattingley

Survival in our Own Land—'Aboriginal' Experiences in 'South Australia' since 1836 is not a typical addition to Australian literature about 'Aborigines'. It presents history in South Australia for the first time from the point of view of the Nungas,…

History | Richard Broome

Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle. In…

Mythology | Christine Cerny

Leider ist der Untertitel bei diesem Buch unglücklich gewählt und verspricht dem Käufer etwas, das das Buch nicht hält. Der "spirituelle Reichtum" der Ureinwohner wird nur ansatzweise beleuchtet. Der Untertitel wäre passender etwas wie "Symbolik um…

Anthologies | Mary Terszak

"I need to emphasise that my time in The Home of the Good Shepherd caused me mental trauma, which I feel destroyed my soul as a person," says Mary Terszak about herself. "I hope that my readers will understand and that others can see why I acted in…

Anthologies | Ruby Langford Ginibi

"I wanted to record our history for the Koori people because the white people had been recording it up until now and they were not accurate." This is the motivation that drove Ruby Langford Ginibi to write this book. But don't expect this book to…

Anthologies | Harvey Arden

On the back of this book its content is praised as a "spirit-journey into the minds, hearts and dreams of Australia's Aboriginal peoples" - but, in fact, it isn't. Nor could it ever be, because Aboriginal people would never let a whitefella enter…

Anthologies | Betty Lockyer

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…

Anthologies | Lorraine McGee-Sippel

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…

Anthologies | John Ramsland

The Rainbow Beach Man is the fascinating story of Les Ridgeway, Worimi Elder, and his struggle against adversity and racial discrimination, chronicling tragedies and triumphs.The eldest of a family of eight, Les Ridgeway grew up in straightened…