Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent by Gideon Haigh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
H. V. Doc Evatt has long been obscured by Menzie's broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest writers and sharpest minds shows Evatt in his true light: the most brilliant Australian of his day. Inspiring, cosmopolitan and hu ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A dazzling collection of essays that unpacks our unruly bodies and minds and questions why we are taught to fear and punish them, from an exciting and award-winning new author. We live in a world that expects us to be constantly in control of ourselves. Our bodies and minds, though, have other ideas. In ...Show more
Trivial Grievances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s by Bridie Jabour
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An oddly optimistic, witty and insightful generation-defining book for a lost generation, the miserable Millennials, from Bridie Jabour, opinion editor at Guardian Australia In the last days of 2019, journalist Bridie Jabour wrote a piece for The Guardian about the malaise of 31 year-old millennials an ...Show more
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation by Claire G. Coleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. ...Show more
Coming of Age in the War on Terror: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'One minute you're a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them? We now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who have grown up only ...Show more
Ten Thousand Aftershocks by Michelle Tom
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After Michelle Tom's house was damaged by a deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, she and her young family suffered through another 10,000 aftershocks before finally relocating to the stability of Melbourne, Australia. But soon after arriving, Michelle received the news t ...Show more
Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together by Germaine Leece, Sonya Tsakalakis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
It's an old cliché that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resona ...Show more
Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience by Veronica Gorrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply com ...Show more
A Weekend with Oscar by Robyn Bavati
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A moving #LoveOzYA novel about family, loss, first love – and being there for your family no matter what. There has been a lot of change in sixteen-year-old Jamie's life lately. He is still grieving the loss of his dad, which left his mum as sole-carer for his younger brother Oscar, who has Down syndrom ...Show more