Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world (Tyson Yunkaporta, Text)
Date: 27 June 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Tyson Yunkaporta is a researcher, academic and arts critic. With ties to the Apalech clan in Far North Queensland, Yunkaporta combines his lived experiences and academic interests in this innovative... Read more
Australia’s Original Languages: An introduction (R M W Dixon, A&U)
Date: 30 May 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Bob Dixon has an impressive academic and publishing career, which includes 50 years of researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Dixon’s latest book combines linguistics, colonisation history, anthropology and... Read more
One Careless Night (Christina Booth, Black Dog)
Date: 2 May 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Christina Booth is an award-winning author and illustrator who has previously collaborated with well-known Australian authors such as Colin Thiele and Jackie French. In One Careless Night, Booth recreates the... Read more
Tony Birch’s ‘The White Girl’
Date: 1 May 2019Category:
‘With a uniquely Australian setting, a compelling narrative, malevolent antagonists and determined female protagonists, The White Girl will appeal to a wide audience. Readers will find it hard to put down.’... Read more
The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Featured book review Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Tony Birch’s latest novel tells the story of Odette Brown and her granddaughter Sissy, who live on the fringe of Deane, a fictional town situated between the mountains and the... Read more
Hitch (Kathryn Hind, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Kathryn Hind was the recipient of the inaugural Penguin Australia Literary Prize in 2018 for Hitch, a contemporary novel set in Australia. The protagonist, Amelia, is a naive young woman... Read more
No place like home: Kelly and Kennedy on ‘Wilam: A Birrarung Story’
Date: 19 March 2019Category: Features Interview Junior
Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly and Lisa Kennedy’s picture book Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Black Dog, April) follows Bunjil (wedge-tailed eagle) as he travels along Birrarung (Yarra River) to the... Read more
Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog)
Date: 7 March 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Wilam is an illustrated children’s book about Birrarung (the Yarra River) and some of the native animals that live nearby. Aunty Joy Murphy, a Wurundjeri Elder, is the author of... Read more
Black is the New White (Nakkiah Lui, A&U)
Date: 1 February 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Black is the New White is the play script of a contemporary romantic comedy written for the stage by Gamillaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman Nakkiah Lui. Young couple Charlotte... Read more
Wyld, Howard, Younus announced as inaugural participants of Writers SA residency project
Date: 26 September 2018Category: Local news
Author Karen Wyld, journalist Jane Howard and poet Manal Younus have been announced as the inaugural participants of Writers SA's new Writers and Readers in Residence Project. Supported by the Australia... Read more
Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Date: 26 July 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Alison Whittaker’s second book, Blakwork is a bold mix of poetry, micro-fiction, memoir and critique, and a follow-up to her award-wining debut poetry collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire. A Gomeroi woman and Fulbright scholar,... Read more
Ameblin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 11 July 2018Category:
‘A highly anticipated novel, Catching Teller Crow can be compared to Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones and E Lockhart’s We Were Liars. The authors subtly weave the history of colonisation... Read more
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Date: 6 July 2018Category: Recently published by B+P
Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in September 2018. Catching Teller Crow (A&U), a 'hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements' by... Read more
Reaching out: Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina on ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Features Junior newsletter Interview
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s Catching Teller Crow (A&U, September) is a 'distinctly Australian hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements', writes reviewer Karen Wyld. Told in two... Read more
Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Junior newsletter Featured book review Reviews Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Siblings Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina have teamed up again on this distinctly Australian hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements. Set in contemporary times, the book... Read more
Inaugural digital participants announced for 2018 Hardcopy program
Date: 22 May 2018Category: Local news
Wyld receives Hardcopy scholarship for First Nations writers
Date: 10 May 2018Category: Local news
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia (Marcia Langton, Hardie Grant)
Date: 3 April 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (ed by Anita Heiss, Black Inc.)
Date: 22 February 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian newsletter Top reviews
Richell Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Date: 3 October 2017Category: Awards Local news
Richell Prize 2017 longlist announced
Date: 29 August 2017Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 22 June 2016Category: Rights round-up
Identity crisis? Andrew Nette on the state of Australian crime fiction
Date: 18 August 2015Category: Features