Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia’s Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland
In 1985 Jacqueline Kent met Kenneth Cook, author of the Australian classic Wake in Fright, and they fell in love. With bewildering speed Jacqueline found herself in alien territory: with a man almost
Milk Teeth is a highly original debut volume of poetry by the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Prize winner. It interrogates notions of category, including but not limited to gender. Rae White has produced poetry
An assured, energetic collection of poems by an award-winning poet.Exploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, Viva the Real celebrates resilience and continuity in ever
When Brigadier James Phelan returns from Afghanistan with the body of a young soldier killed under his command, he is traumatised by the tragedy. An encounter with young Sydney tattoo artist Kira leav
Thea Astley won multiple prizes for her fiction, including four Miles Franklin Awards. However, her earliest ambition was to write poetry. It remained her private passion throughout her student days i
An innovative, imaginative work of biography, examining Bertha and Henry Lawson’s marriage through a modern lens Henry Lawson was Australia’s bush bard, a revered cultural icon, yet he descended into
The Mater Children’s Hospital – the realisation of a dream for the Sisters of Mercy – opened on July 6, 1931, in the midst of the Great Depression. Triumphs and challenges followed each other through
Spanning three decades, this collection brings together some of the best work of one of Australia's finest contemporary poets. Richly textured and thought provoking, this compilation of older and newl
The one hundred previously uncollected poems in this compendium represent works from the second half of Mary Gilmore’s life. Demonstrating an increased poetic maturity in the control of form and tone,
