Not Quite White in the Head

Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time.

Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.

In this special collection of essays and journalism - published together for the first time - Lucashenko reflects on being caught in a siege, on the marginalised lives of prisoners and the urban poor, on Blak identity, Australian literature and on meeting her writing idol.

Her wisdom and her humour have never been more necessary. Not Quite White in the Head ranges over two turbulent decades of politics, activism, culture and social (in)justice in Australia.