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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: 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
$32.95 AUD
Category: 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: 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: Australian Non fiction
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: Australian Non fiction
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: 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
Plains of Promise: An extraordinary novel from the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize by Alexis Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Australian Writers
In this brilliant debut 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 page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the com ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an eco-crisis and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a vision to futureproof his people--while his son, Aboriginal Sovereignty, commits suicide. Exhilarating, magnetic, shattering the limits of allegory and fiction ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: 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: 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: 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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