Children | Ambelin Kwaymullina, Ezekiel Kwaymullina

A totally addictive ghost story, crime story and thriller, told half in prose and half in verse, from two of the most exciting Aboriginal voices in Australia.Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad, a detective, is the only…

Spirituality and poetry | Ambelin Kwaymullina

"You are on Indigenous lands,swimming in Indigenous waters,looking up at Indigenous skies." Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at our colonial-settler 'present'. This book is the first of its kind to address and educate a broad audience…

Children | Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson, Jasmine Seymour (Illus.)

"FamilyHeart and homeYarning old peopleEndless sky" Family is a thoughtful contemplation for all to learn the different ways that family makes us whole. This beautifully illustrated children’s picture book shows everyone that ‘family’ can be…

History | 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…

Law and justice | Steven Schubert

A compelling true story of homicide and injustice in an outback town. At first it looked like a swag, said the grader driver. He'd found the body just off the road outside the outback town of Katherine in the Northern Territory. Police quickly…

Children | Bruce Pascoe, Charmaine Ledden-Lewis (Illustrator)

When Yuin man Bruce Pascoe took over his farm at Mallacoota where he planned to grow Aboriginal foods, he found the previous owner had left something behind.A calf had evaded the roundup and was left abandoned on the property and began spending time…

Spirituality and poetry | Jeanine Leane (ed.)

Guwayu, For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over the past 16 years, and is a radical literary intervention for its breadth of representation, temporal depth and diversity of language. This fiercely…

Autobiography, biography | Patricia Lees, Adam C Lees (as told to)

The removal of Aboriginal children from their families remains a dark chapter in Australia's history. Patricia "Pattie" Lees was just ten years old when she and her four siblings were separated from their mother on the grounds of neglect and placed…

History | Dennis Foley, Peter Read

What the Colonists Never Knew paints a vivid picture of what it was like to grow up Aboriginal in Sydney, alongside the colonists, from 1788 to the present.Peter Read’s exploration of the history of Aboriginal Sydney is interwoven with Dennis…

History | Johanna Perheentupa

In the 1970s the run-down inner-city suburb of Redfern was a gathering place for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals. Having fled poverty and segregation in rural Australia in the 1950s and 60s, they set about fulfilling their…

Spirituality and poetry | Charmaine Papertalk Green

Nganajungu Yagu is dedicated to Papertalk Green's mother, and is built around selected correspondence between Yagu and Daughter. It gently reminds us of the sacrifices made by our matriarchs over time. Each letter and response provide not only a…

Children | Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, Peter Hudson (Illus.)

Paul Kelly and Kev Carmodys remarkable song, From Little Things Big Things Grow, is the anthem of the Land Rights movement in Australia.It tells the story of the proud Gurindji people and their stand against the might of the cattle baron, Lord…

Autobiography, biography | Big Bill Neidjie, Bluey Ilkgirr, Jacob Nayinggul, Jim Wauchope, Johnny Williams Snr.

Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Aboriginal Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu. Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem…