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11-year-old Bindi’s not really into maths but she loves art class and hockey. Her year starts off normally with school, family, hockey and dancing, but the rest of it doesn’t go to plan! This verse novel explores climate, bushfires, and healing.
Wise-cracking Kerry Salter’s Pop is dying and she’s an inch away from the lockup, so she heads home for twenty-four hours, tops – only to discover that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people.
This novel portrays life in the precariously-settled coastal town of Desperance, centring on the Phantom family’s battles with the renegade Eastend mob and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine.
Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning international writer of poetry, plays and picture books. She is a teacher, cultural consultant and artist. In 2020, Kirli was named the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year. Her books include celebrated The Incredible Freedom Machines (Scholastic 2018), Kindred (Magabala 2019), and Bindi (Magabala 2020). Her poetry and prose can also […]
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel, Steam Pigs, was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Too Much Lip is her sixth novel and won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work […]
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and […]