Reading list

Discover the powerful, moving and invigorating words of the authors in our program, before you hear them speak.

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Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

by Anita Heiss

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Cutters End

by Margaret Hickey

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Infinite Splendours

by Sofie Laguna

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Love Objects

by Emily Maguire

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March of the Ants

by Ursula Dubosarsky

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Mr Chicken All Over Australia

by Leigh Hobbs

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My Year of Living Vulnerably

by Rick Morton

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Neon Leviathan

by T.R. Napper

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Of Boys and Boats

by Ian Trevaskis

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Of Breath and Blood

by Dorothy Simmons

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Old Tom

by Leigh Hobbs

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Pierre’s Not There

by Ursula Dubosarsky

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Random Life

by Judy Horacek (purchase at LibraryMuseum)

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Signs and Wonders

by Delia Falconer (View the Seismic Shifts event page to read a sample chapter)

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Skinful

by Robyn Flemming

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Song of the Crocodile

by Nardi Simpson

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Talkin’ up to the White Woman

by Aileen Moreton-Robinson Read this book and join the Radical Book Club discussion

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The Burning Island

by Jock Serong

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The Dictionary of Lost Words

by Pip Williams

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The Joy of High Places

by Patti Miller

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The Sultan’s Daughter

by Jane Downing

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This Chicken Life

by Fiona Scott-Norman

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Trouble is my Business

by Lisa Walker

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We Were Not Men

by Campbell Mattinson

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