Ringside with Wally Carr
My Longest Round is the kind of book you skip telly for, put the kids to bed early for, put yourself to bed early for—just so you can have a quiet hour in Wally Carr’s company. […]
BOOKS
The Valley: a Kimberley tale written well and with a good heart
A storyworm, like an earworm, can be a dangerous thing. It’s something you can’t get out of your head. It sticks there. Fattens there. And sometimes—if you’re lucky—it grows into a book. Steve Hawke’s storyworm […]
A big mob of bad desert monsters, a clever crow and two cheeky mice: summer reading for kids
It’s after sunset. A group of technicolour monsters are on the move. They steal food from the shop. They stuff their faces with cake. They squash the community phone box. And this is just the […]
Wanted: budding illustrator to work with acclaimed author Bruce Pascoe
Indigenous publisher Magabala Books is looking for an illustrator for acclaimed author Bruce Pascoe’s first foray into children’s books. Applications are now open for the Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award which will not only see the […]
A tough Kimberley tale of resistance wins most underrated book of 2018
A memoir by the late Frank Byrne, a member of the Stolen Generations, has been named the most underrated book of 2018. The Small Press Network, which represents independentpublishers in Australia and New Zealand, awarded […]
New book delves deep into lives of Aboriginal servicemen
The hardships of more than 80 Western Australian Aboriginal men who enlisted and served in World War I, despite legislative attempts to exclude them, have been illustrated in a new publication. No Less Worthy was launched […]
In your name crimes beyond imagining would have been committed
False Claims of Colonial Thieves starts with mining. Charmaine Papertalk Green reflects on her grandmother, glad that the only mining she knew was the mining of ochre for body and hair during ceremony. She reflects […]
Hope he gets piles on his piles!
Tarpin’. It’s where you sneak up onto the back of someone’s ute, lie quietly under the tarp, and go for a ride to who-knows-where. It’s a test of courage. It’s about becoming a man. It […]
Pilbara Palyku mob share opulent illustrations; tense questions
Crocs, kookaburras and a dingo howling in the golden light of the moon—these are some of the creatures that populate mother-and-son team Sally Morgan and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s gorgeous book for infants We All Sleep. The […]
Heart is full and burstin’ blak
Whitework, bloodwork, badwork, blakwork: Alison Whittaker’s sassy second collection of poems is structured in chapters ranging from the collective to the deeply personal, from the comic, to the deadly serious. A Gomeroi woman, from the […]