Spring 2022 Giveaway #1

Paul Daley Jesustown

A morally bankrupt historian travels to the remote former mission where his grandfather famously brokered ‘peace’ between the Indigenous people of the area and the white constabulary. This multi-generational saga explores Australian frontier violence, cultural theft and the competing tensions of the Australian story.

‘Poignant and powerful, the best book I’ve read this year’ – Chris Hammer

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin

Yassmin Abdel-Magied Talking About A Revolution

‘… revolution, resistance, transformation and change are the currents charging every aspect of twenty-first century life’ writes Yassmin Abdel-Magied in her introduction to this collection of essays that range from the personal to discussions of citizenship, cryptocurrency and unconscious bias.

Courtesy of Penguin Random House

Rhett Davis Hovering

The debut novel from the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. The city was in the same place, but was it the same city? In his review Robert Goodman called it: ‘a compassionate, surreal, clear-eyed exploration of modern Australia and the place of art in the national conversation, particularly art that critiques the world in which it is created.’

Courtesy of Hachette Australia

Wendy James A Little Bird

Wendy James is known as ‘the queen of domestic noir’ and here she tells the story of journalist Jo Sharp, whose return to the drought-stricken town of Arthurville rekindles the grief and uncertainty she experienced as a child following the inexplicable disappearance of her mother and baby sister. In her review Kim Kelly wrote: ‘James brings a keen understanding of social and political history to her richly layered tales, and in this new story, she brings that understanding to the fictional town of Arthurville’.

Courtesy of Wendy James