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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...Show more
Carpentaria: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 by Alexis Wright
$26.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The 2007 Miles Franklin Award winner, Carpentaria is a portrait of life in the newly established coastal town of Desperance. It centres on the powerful Phantom family, whose members are the leaders of the Pricklebush people. Alexis Wright is one of Australia's finest Aboriginal writers. Carpentaria is h ...Show more
Carpentaria: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2007 by Alexis Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright. Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal people of Car ...Show more
Grog War by Alexis Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous
A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award‑winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpire ...Show more
Grog War: One Town's Fight Against Alcohol by Alexis Wright
$19.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright recounts how a remote town in Australia dealt with the invasion of grog on their traditional lands. Wright describes the shocking effects of alcohol abuse and racism in this vivid portrayal of a small town fighting to bring about change. Should alcohol b ...Show more
Plains of Promise: An extraordinary novel from the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize by Alexis Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella PrizeIn this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the p ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Accompanied by new editions of Wright’s classic novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to be released by Giramondo in May 2023. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness ...Show more
Praiseworthy (H/B) by Alexis Wright
$59.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.Accompanied by new editions of Wright’s classic novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to be released by Giramondo in May 2023.Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where s ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An inventive, cacophonous novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down--where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum tree, tattered and fragile, the victi ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
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