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Sally Gare’s memoir opens with her arrival in 1956 at the Forrest River Mission School in far north Western Australia. She lives in a ‘modern’ fibro house and teaches Oombulgurri …

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Tara Button’s mother, Tabitha, is dying. And she wants Tara to tow the family’s rusting yellow caravan across the state to the hospice in which she is residing. Reluctantly, Tara …

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FIFO – Fit In or F**K Off is a stage play. Confronting yet tempered with Aboriginal humour, playwright Melody Dia acknowledges that during her research she heard as many positive …

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‘Ziggety-zoo kangaroo!’ So goes the rather adorable catch-cry of this book’s heroine, the adventure-ready Jarrah, whose favourite day of the week is ‘Bush Adventure Day’ with Grandpa. But alas, when …

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Alf Taylor’s poetry and fiction voiced in Nyoongar English are a collection of his best. Nyoongar histories pay necessary attention to a way of life forced by colonisation. Taylor has …

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The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan is the gripping new stand-alone thriller by the author of the Cormac Reilly series. When young law student Hannah manipulates her way into joining …

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Tracy Ryan is an award-winning poet and Rose Interior, her tenth collection, is a wide ranging, intelligent and deeply thoughtful book. Themes range from the interior to the exterior, the …

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