NewSouth Books

Shorter Lives

John A. Scott

Shorter Lives' histories of notable creators (and notable enablers of the creative) drift away from conventional tellings to offer alternative facts and believable untruths. No small part of the author's extensive research, however, has been the trawling of existing biographies ...

Puncher and Wattmann
9781925780482, Paperback, AUD$25.00

The Friendly Games

Kaye Baillie, illustrated by Fiona Burrows
MidnightSun Publishing
9781925227642, Hardback, AUD$29.99

Thorn

Todd Turner
Puncher and Wattmann
9781925780635, Paperback, AUD$25.00

Descendant of the Crane

Joan He
Titan Books
9781789094046, Paperback, AUD$19.99

Ngiyampaa Wordworld: Thipingku Yuwi, Maka Ngiya, Names of Birds and Other Words, Second Edition

Compiled by Tamsin Donaldson
Aboriginal Studies Press
9781925302196, Paperback, AUD$34.95

Unmasking the Racial Contract: Indigenous voices on racism in the Australian Public Service

Dr. Debbie Bargallie
Aboriginal Studies Press
9781925302653, Paperback, AUD$39.95

Domestic Herbal, The: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century

Margaret Willes
Bodleian Library
9781851245130, Hardback, AUD$49.99

The Dhurga Dictionary and Learners Grammar: A south-east coast NSW Aboriginal language

Compiled by Patricia Ellis, Kerry Boyenga, Waine Donovan
Aboriginal Studies Press
9781925302608, Paperback, AUD$34.95

Singing Bones: Ancestral Creativity and Collaboration

Samuel Curkpatrick
Sydney University Press
9781743326770, Paperback (Trade paperback AUS/UK), AUD$45.00

The Munchian O

Meredith Wattison
Puncher and Wattmann
9781925780673, Paperback, AUD$25.00

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