Birrung the Secret Friend
The first in a new series that focuses on a secret part of our history From best-selling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called the Secret Histories. This first book in the series tells the story of a young indigenous girl Birrung who befriends orphaned Barney and his friend […]
Let the Land Speak
From one of our most respected and award-winning authors, Jackie French, comes a fascinating and fresh interpretation of Australian history, focusing on how the land itself, rather than social forces, has shaped the major events that led to modern Australia. To understand the present, you need to understand the past. To understand Australia’s history, you […]
Refuge
Brilliant in construct, compelling and extraordinarily moving, this is a book that speaks to each of us and reminds us that while we mightn’t be refugees, we are all newcomers to this country and that everyone has a story worth hearing. When a boat carrying a group of asylum seekers is sunk by a freak […]
Because a White Man’ll Never Do It
Kevin Gilbert’s powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First published in 1973, Gilbert’s controversial account of Aboriginal affairs paints a disturbing image of the impact of the colonisation of Australia […]
Dirrangun
A timely re-issue of these well-loved Australian Indigenous classics. Ages 6-9 “Some people say that Dirrangun is a witch, that she’s mean and cunning and Brings you all the mischief in the world. Others say that she’s friendly. But she’s a very old woman and She has long hair down to her knees.” Dirrangun is […]
Nanberry: Black Brother White
The amazing story of Australia’s first surgeon and the boy he adopted. It’s 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two […]
Nyuntu Ninti
My name is Bob Randall and I’m an Anangu man from Uluru. Not many people know much about us. that’s why I want to share some things with you. things about us. About our land. things you may not have heard before.’ In this beautiful photographic book for young children, Bob Randall explains, in a […]
Luurnpa, The Magical Kingfisher
This is a traditional Dreaming narrative, belonging to Bai Bai Napangarti from the Balgo Hills region of Western Australia. It tells the story of Luurnpa, who saves the Kukatja people from dying of thirst by showing them his magic rock hole full of water. For many years the Kukatja people lived on land where there […]
The Pangkarlangu and the Lost Child
A traditional Walrpiri Dreaming narrative, belonging to Molly Tasman Napurrurla from the Tanami Desert. It tells the story of a small boy who decides to ignore his parents’ advice and follow them out hunting and how he comes face to face with a huge creature with wild eyes, knotty hair, and long sharp nails and […]
