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Benang by Kim Scott
26.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful ...Show more
Benang: From the Heart - Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2000 by Kim Scott
29.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures
Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure m ...Show more
Kayang & Me by Kim Scott; Hazel Brown
24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Kayang & Me is a powerful story of community and belonging, revealing the deep and enduring connections between family, country, culture and history that lie at the heart of Indigenous identity.
Mamang (Noongar & English) by Kim Scott; Iris Woods; Jeffrey Farmer (Illustrator); Helen Nelly (Illustrator); Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Staff (Retold by); Yibiyung Winmar
24.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Ser.
A brave young man travels the seas in the abdomen of a large whale ('mamang'). The man squeezes the heart of the whale and the old song he sings spurs the whale on to take him on a very special journey. The whale transports him far west of his home country, where his life is changed forever. *** Mamang ...Show more
Noongar Mambara Bakitj (Noongar & English) by Kim Scott
24.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous Culture | Series: Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Ser.
Noongar Mambara Bakitj was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Inspired by a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western Australia, around 1931 and returned to the Noongar pe ...Show more
Sunscreen and Lipstick by Kim Scott
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
This book is all about women. From the mad excitement of first love to the grief of losing a parent, this is a summer collection about mums, daughters, wives and girlfriends from some of Australia's best-loved writers. Just in time for Christmas and summer holidays, this is the perfect book to throw int ...Show more
Taboo by Kim Scott
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin AwardFrom Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred ye ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 by Kim Scott
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition. Well read. Yellowing and foxing to pages. Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explore ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 by Kim Scott
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs - as if he'd learned it from their very own selves; but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together... Told ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 - (MP3-CD, unabridged, 1 CD) by Kim Scott
44.95 AUD
Category: AUDIO
Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.The ...Show more
The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind by Scott Kim
34.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves one's brain function. This engaging and informative book gives readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain.
True Country by Kim Scott
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Examining ideas of belonging and being an outsider, this story follows Billy, a young school teacher and drifter who arrives in Australia's remote far north in search of his past, his Aboriginal roots, and his future. Through masterful language and metaphor, as well as a sophisticated tone that is both ...Show more
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