Allen & Unwin
Germaine by Elizabeth Kleinhenz & Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers
by Zora Simic •
The Recovering: Intoxication and its aftermath by Leslie Jamison
by Lucas Thompson •
Letters to the Editor in the May issue of Australian Book Review
... (read more)Springtime: A ghost story by Michelle de Kretser
by Francesca Sasnaitis •
The Spy Catchers: The official history of ASIO 1949–1963, Volume One by David Horner
by Phillip Deery •
A relatively unusual occurrence until recently, the publication of a plethora of new Australian Aboriginal-authored and/or Aboriginal-themed children’s books has begun transforming the Australian publishing landscape. A number of these books, like Rhoda Lalara and Alfred Lalara’s charmingly evocative Yirruwa Yirrilikenuma-langwa (When We Go Walkabout: Allen & Unwin, $24.99 hb, 32 pp, 9781743314562), are rendered bilingually, in the latter case in Anindilyakwa, the mother tongue of the majority of Groote Eylandt residents, as well as in English.
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