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Bitin' Back: First Nations Classics by Melissa Lucashenko, Vivienne Cleven
Category: Fiction
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
Courage, Survival, Greed: Sydney PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project by Anna Funder, Melissa Lucashenko, Christopher Kremmer, Sydney PEN
Category: Languages and Reference
Three brilliant essays written by leading and acclaimed Australian writers unflinchingly show us our world as never before. Anna Funder examines the nature of courage in a powerful and moving essay, commemorating the life and work of the 'bravest of the brave', murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovs ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane 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 PREORDER published 3rd October 2023 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
Roo 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 it through adoption, through juvenile detention, through poverty. He's an athlete in training, aching towards the d ...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
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
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
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
The Brisbane Trilogy Set - Immaculate / Edenglassie / Lola In The Mirror by Anna McGahan, Trent Dalton, Melissa Lucashenko
Category: Fiction
Three books that encapsulate Brisbane in one collection for a very special price. Edenglassie - In this brilliant epic, Melissa Lucashenko torches Queensland's colonial myths, while reimagining an Australian future. Immaculate - A provocative and tender exploration of loss, identity and healing, and t ...Show more