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Papunya School Book of Country and History

The Papunya School Book of Country and History is a unique and fascinating account of the history of Western Desert communities from an Indigenous perspective. This multi-award-winning book tells the...

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Selected Essays

A new selection of the essays Charmian Clift wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald during the 1960s. For thousands of readers, Thursday’s Herald and it’s Clift column were compulsory reading. Passionate,...

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The Tyranny of Distance

“One of the most illuminating books ever written on Australian history.” – The Bulletin In The Tyranny of Distance, an Australian classic that has been continuously in print since 1967, Geoffrey...

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Cafe Scheherazade

“In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade.” Thus begins Arnold Zable’s haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its...

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Faith Singer

The acclaimed story of Faith, a rock singer who lives in Kings Cross and Angel, a dreamy homeless girl. Angel is surrounded by dangers; her fragile hold on life weakened by the violence of a client and...

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True History of the Kelly Gang

In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semi-literate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the...

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The Red Tree

A small child awakes to find blackened leaves falling from her bedroom ceiling, threatening to quietly overwhelm her. ‘Sometimes you wake up with nothing to look forward to …’ As she wanders around a...

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