Me, Antman & Fleabag: First Nations Classics by Gayle Kennedy, Jared Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Take one woman, her partner Antman and their dog Fleabag, pack up the car, turn up the country music and you've got one spirited road trip makin' room for all the good things in life, like family, laughin', travellin' and, best of all, love.Winner of the 2006 David Unaipon Award, Me, Antman & Fleaba ...Show more
Is That You, Ruthie?: First Nations Classics by Jackie Huggins, Ruth Hegarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
'Is that you ...?' Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high-spirited dormitory girl Ruthie.In the Depression years Queensland's notoriou ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics by Larissa Behrendt, Fiona Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a s ...Show more
Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happened in Elizabeth McCracken's eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumo ...Show more
Piglet Meets Hefalump by A. A. Milne
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics
What is a Heffalump? Is it fierce? Is it fond of Pigs at all? Piglet bravely searches for the answers to these questions, and gets a big surprise.
Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Vivienne Cleven
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny but ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers: First Nations Classics by Samuel Wagan Watson, Tony Birch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Reading this book is, as Tony Birch points out, 'like witnessing Bruce Springsteen meet the Dreamtime'.Smoke Encrypted Whispers showcases Samuel Wagan Watson's imaginative brilliance and exceptional poetic skills. In this book, which also includes work from three previous collections, his poems pulse wi ...Show more
Dreaming in the Urban Areas: First Nations Classics by Lisa Bellear, Kirli Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Lisa Bellear's poetry moves sharply between street-smart portrayals of poverty and dispossession, and the complexity of Black love, identity and experience. She reaches into the unspeakable parts of a colonial past in order to unpick the ongoing repercussions of Australia's invasion and history.Written ...Show more
Plains of Promise: First Nations Classics by Mykaela Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
In this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's far North, black and white cultures collide in a t ...Show more
The Prophet by KAHLIL GIBRAN
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, ...Show more