The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight by Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography
With deep roots in Australia's Kimberley region, Olive Knight shares her story of growing up with the Gooniyandi and Walmatjarri peoples of northwestern Australia. As the daughter of a half-caste father, she was nearly killed on the day of her birth, as was customary for halfblood children in her commun ...Show more
Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Life by Harry Allen
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to por ...Show more
Ngaanyatjarra - Art of the Lands by Tim Acker; John Carty
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
Ngaanyatjarra: Art of the Lands is a glorious illustrated book documenting the six art centres (Warakurna, Papulankutja, Tjarlirli, Kayili, Maruku and Tjanpi) that make up the Western Desert Mob group. This book combines the aesthetics of an art catalogue with the rigour of an academic art history, and ...Show more
Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a te ...Show more
Waiting at the Gate by Robyn Caughlan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At the age of five, after years of abuse, and just months after the death of her father, Robyn was sent on a holiday and was never returned to her family. She waited at the gate for her mother to return but it soon dawned on her that her family was not coming to get her. This is Robyn's story. From humb ...Show more
Mrs White and the Red Desert by Josie Boyle
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children
Age range 3 to 8 When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her why their homework is always grubby, no-one expects what is to come! They are happily showing Mrs White their higgledy piggledy garden when suddenly a big red sand storm comes billowing o ...Show more
Bip the Snapping Bungaroo by Narelle McRobbie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children
Back by popular demand, this exciting new edition of Bip the Snapping Bungaroo is set to captivate young readers once again. Bungaroo is the Australian Yidin people's word for turtle. Bip the snapping turtle is renowned for his very loud SNAP! When Bip awakes one day to find he can't snap any more, the ...Show more
And then I found me by Noel Tovey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Noel Tovey’s previous memoir, Little Black Bastard ( Hodder Headline Australia 2004, shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous Writing, Australian Human Rights Award) chronicled his extraordinary life – from a childhood lived in poverty, through to his international stage career, return to Au ...Show more
The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story by Peta Stephenson
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Original work that tells a story about cross-cultural encounters that will be a revelation to many readers. It shows how the connections between Aborigines and Australians have continued for centuries. It has lots of striking illustrations, particularly of cultural expressions of the Aboriginal/Asian re ...Show more
NGAY JANIJIRR NGANK THIS IS MY WORD by WILLIAMS MAGDALENE
$18.99 AUD
Category: History
A poignant story told by Magdalene Williams of the Nyulnyul People. Although raised in the confines of Beagle Bay mission, she was constantly exposed to her traditional culture through her elders. Her account of the coming of the missionaries and the resultant destruction of law and culture are interwov ...Show more