Fiction, novels | Alexis Wright

Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come, but also a novel about native title rights told through a colloquial and extraordinary Aboriginal voice. Inspired…

People | Joan Martin (Yaarna)

Joan Martin (Yarrna): A Widi Woman tells the story of Aboriginal artist Joan Martin who created the mosaic centrepiece in the Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS) at Curtin University. Ms Martin was born in 1941 in the country town of Morawa,…

Sport | Sean Gorman

Legends is the first book of Aboriginal football and sporting history told by the players. It is a rare glimpse into the wonderful life stories of the best Aboriginal Australian-rules football stars, and presents the players' own descriptions of…

Textbooks, teaching, studies | Nola Purdie, Gina Milgate, Hannah Rachel Bell (eds)

Within the Education Revolution lies another, quieter revolution that attempts to raise the profile and status, and improve the learning outcomes, of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - children, young adults, women and…

Sport | Bruce Hearn Mackinnon

Known as the 'Warlpiri Warrior,' the 'Jurrahcane' and 'Cougar,' Liam Jurrah is a rising star of the AFL, known for his startling displays of skill, artistry and the 'deadly' impact of his football ability.Liam Jurrah's story to this point of his…

Children | Bronwyn Bancroft

Following the success of Possum and Wattle, Bronwyn Bancroft has created a companion volume, Kangaroo and Crocodile, a book of Australian animals and landscapes - from eagles to echidnas, geckos to crocodiles, from desert animals to creatures of the…

Land | Deborah Bird Rose

Country of the Heart -- An Australian Indigenous Homeland provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained and nurtured them for generations.Through the wonderful photographic images and the…

Children | Dub (David) Leffler

"Once there was a boy who lived on an island. He lived there all by himself. Spreading the seeds of our culture..." Once There Was A Boy is a poignant, universal story of friendship, temptation and reconciliation. The disarmingly sweet, simple…

Land | Bill Gammage

Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this…

Fiction, novels | Jeanine Leane

Winner of the 2010 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing, Purple Threads is a humorous collection of rural yarns by a gifted storyteller.Jeanine Leane grew up on a sheep farm near Gundagai, and the stories are based on her childhood experiences…

Fiction, novels | Nicole Watson

Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People's native title claim on Brisbane's Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead.Aboriginal people were once prohibited from…

Sport | John Maynard

A first in sporting literature, The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe is the largely untold history of Aboriginal involvement with the world game. Maynard examines an important aspect of our nations sporting history. The acceptance that Aboriginal players…

Sport | John Maynard

John Maynard comes from both Aboriginal and racing backgrounds. He knows first hand that the premise that there had been very few Aboriginal riders is far from the truth.Aboriginal Stars of the Turf celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal…

Fiction, novels | D. Bruno Starrs

In this bold and cheeky meditation on Western and Aboriginal religion, middle-aged muscleman, uncertain Catholic and wanna-be academic Sterling de Bortoli is a self-described "octaroon": a one-eighth Aboriginal Australian. Neither black nor white…