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Alexis Wright
Miles Franklin-winning author Alexis Wright has crafted a memoir in story form of the charismatic Indigenous leader Tracker Tilmouth, and an epic portrait of a important period in the political…
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Winner of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards: The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language…
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One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright's Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.
Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy…
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A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize
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Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wright's classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
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An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose "words explode from the page" (The Monthly)
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Alexis Wright is one of Australia’s finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is her second novel, a soaring epic set in the Gulf country of north - western Queensland, from where her…
Miles Franklin award - winning author Alexis Wright recounts how a remote town in Australia dealt with the invasion of grog on their traditional lands. Wright describes the shocking effects…
Alexis Wright's award-winning classic Carpentaria: "a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel-stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism" (The Australian)
Alexis Wright, Mykaela Saunders
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Mykaela Saunders, Plains of Promise is a masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the…
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New book by celebrated Aboriginal author Alexis Wright, author of Carpentaria and The Swan Book. A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia’s most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait…
A rich and epic novel from an authentic aboriginal voice. Winner of the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
In a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out a solution to…
Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.
Accompanied by new editions of Wright's classic novels, Carpentaria…
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"A collection of essays focused on diverse conceptions of Frankenstein and monstrosity as they intersect in music, theatre, visual art, film, media and cultural mediations more broadly"--
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Rosemary Wright
Alexis is a normal ten year old boy who lives on a roving space laboratory with his parents. One evening they are attacked by a strange spacecraft. Alexis, or Lexi…
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Christos Tsiolkas,Gideon Haigh,Alexis Wright
Three acclaimed writers explore the crucial issues facing contemporary Australia: fear, prejudice and tolerance.
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Ruth Wright Hayre,Alexis Moore
tell them we are rising The inspiring story of how one woman gave back. –Ed Bradley This is a heartwarming story about struggle, survival, and achieve ment. If we didn’t…
Don McGrath
DISCOVER HOW ATHLETES OVER 50 LEAD EXTRAORDINARY LIVES! What does it take to continue to participate in athletic activities and sustained exercise later in life? How does it differ from…
QAGOMA
Published as a creative response to and historical document of QAGOMA’s 2019/20 blockbuster exhibition ‘Water’, this publication explores water in all its states, highlighting the precious resource through contemporary artworks…
A collection of essays focused on diverse conceptions of Frankenstein and monstrosity as they intersect in music, theatre, visual art, film, media and cultural mediations more broadly –
Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.
