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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literature
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
$29.95 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
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner - 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecologica ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment f ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature
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: Literature
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: Biographies | 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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