Books like That Deadman Dance
In the early nineteenth century on the south coast of Western Australia, Bobby Wabalanginy, a young Noongar man, welcomes the first white settlers and whalers, at first as friends.
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Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
The Secret River
William Thornhill, a London bargeman transported for theft in 1806, serves his time in Sydney and claims a hundred acres on the Hawkesbury River, land that already belongs to its Aboriginal people.
Poor Fellow My Country
Jeremy Delacy, a cattleman in the Northern Territory, and his Aboriginal grandson Prindy live through the years leading up to the Second World War, in one of the longest of all Australian novels.
A Fringe of Leaves
In 1836, Ellen Roxburgh, a Cornish farm girl married into the English gentry, is shipwrecked off the Queensland coast and taken in by an Aboriginal tribe.
Potiki
A Māori community on the coast holds on to its land as developers move in, and a strange, gifted child, Toko, is born into the family.
This Earth of Mankind
Minke, a brilliant young Javanese student at a Dutch school in colonial Surabaya in the 1890s, falls for Annelies, daughter of Nyai Ontosoroh, the formidable concubine of a Dutch planter.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Corporal Phelim Halloran, an Irish marine in the penal colony of New South Wales in the late eighteenth century, loves a convict servant girl and is drawn into a plot by Irish convicts.
In the Castle of My Skin
G., a boy growing up in a village in colonial Barbados in the 1930s and 40s, watches the old order of the landlord in the big house start to break.
Collected Poems 1948–1984
Walcott's poems from his first books in St Lucia to The Fortunate Traveller and Midsummer.
The White Girl
In a small Australian country town in the 1960s, Odette Brown, an Aboriginal grandmother raising her granddaughter Sissy, sees the new policeman taking an interest in the girl's fair skin.
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins, a nervous young Anglican priest with a gambling habit, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an Australian heiress who has bought a glassworks, meet on a ship bound for Sydney in the 1860s.