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Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Melissa Lucashenko, Vivienne Cleven
Category: Fiction | Series: First Nations Classics Ser.
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny but ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Hard Yards by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much LipRoo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made ...Show more
Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
First published in 1998 and written for young adults, a tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Angry young Koori Darcy Mango is on parole and looking for his mob in Northern New South Wales. Befriending the Menzies family wasn't at all what he had in mi ...Show more
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
Winner Queensland Literary Awards Best Fiction 2013 A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal a ...Show more
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare.When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent ...Show more
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding tw ...Show more
Too Much Lip: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award by Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
The darkly funny, unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary AwardToo much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise ...Show more
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