In a world of big government and big business, individuals can still make a difference ? especially when their fight sparks the media’s interest and the survival instincts of politicians.In this compe
A brilliant, fiercely profound work of creative non-fiction in the vein of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts. In this extraordinary book, Meera Atkinson explores the ways trauma reverberates over a lifeti
The Pearl is the story of Steve Renouf, a brilliant Aboriginal rugby league player. But it is not just the tale of a gifted footballer. It is the story of his family heritage; of his childhood in the
Adrian Pomeroy teaches English at a boys’ school ‘full of bullshit artists in blazers’. When he finds himself at the centre of an allegation that might end his career, his life start
The controversial novelist Xavier Herbert (1901-84) led a colourful and itinerant life. Best known for his vast North Australian epics "Capricornia" and "Poor Fellow My Country" (totalling over a mil
The kind of art a country produces, particularly those works commissioned and paid for by the government, give insights into that nation's idea of itself. This is the central premise of Gibson's (Aus
