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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...Show more
Carpentaria: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION by Alexis Wright
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
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 people come. Carpentaria's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Ph ...Show more
Grog War: One Town's Fight Against Alcohol by Alexis Wright
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
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 of alcohol abuse and racism in this vivid portrayal of a small town fighting to bring about change. Should alcohol b ...Show more
Plains of Promise: First Nations Classics by Alexis Wright
$19.99 AUD
Category: First Nations/Indigenous Australia | Series: First Nations Classics
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
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner - 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecologica ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where s ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
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