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Home by Larissa Behrendt
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Home is an award-winning work from a talented and unique voice. A cross-generational story spanning 1916 to 1995, it explores issues of racial and social injustice while circling poetically around the one abiding theme of 'home'. Candice, a Murri lawyer working with native land claims, leaves the city f ...Show more
Home to Mother by Doris (Nugi Garimara) Pilkington
Category: Education | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
This young reader's version of a best-selling, true story of courage and love will grab readers of all ages and take them on a journey through a country as beautiful as it is harsh - a journey home. Ages 8+. (SA: Year 6 - Year 9)
Is That You Ruthie? by Ruth Hegarty
Category: Young Adult | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
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No Regrets by Edwards Mabel
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
This is an entertaining journey into Aboriginal and South Sea Islander communities. As a girl, Mabel leaves her small town for domestic work on a sheep property. There she eventually meets and marries Digger. He returns with her to his coastal Queensland home, a close knit South Sea Islander community. ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Mu ...Show more
Steam Pigs by LUCASHENKO MELISSA
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Sue Wilson, young and Aboriginal, escapes her "too-large, too-poor family in a too-small" north Queensland town for Logan City's frontier sprawl.Entering "the mythic world of Work" she discovers that the view from behind the bar is less than glamorous, but pays the rent. When she meets Roger the good ti ...Show more
Unbranded by Herb Wharton
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
From the riotous picnic races to the famous Mt Isa rodeo, from childhood in the yumba to gutsy outback pubs, Unbrandedpresents a strikingly original vision of Australia. With a rollicking cast of stockmen, shearers, barmaids and tourists, this novel is the story of three men. Sandy is a white man; Bindi ...Show more
WHISPERS OF THIS WIK WOMAN by Doyle Fiona
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
This richly illustrated account of Cape York activist Jean George Awumpun, written from the personal perspective of family, is a rare illustration of the inseparable bonds of ancestory and country. Through the eyes of her grandaughter, this proud Alngith Elder's struggle in claiming her country is movin ...Show more
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