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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.
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Journey to the Stone Country
Annabelle Beck, leaving her marriage in Melbourne, goes home to north Queensland and travels into the hinterland with Bo Rennie, a Jangga man she knew as a child, to survey Aboriginal sites.
Too Much Lip
Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman on a stolen motorbike with warrants out, comes home to northern New South Wales to farewell her dying grandfather, and finds the mayor planning a prison on sacred land.
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.
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 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.
Praiseworthy
In the small northern town of Praiseworthy, under a haze cloud that won't lift, Cause Man Steel dreams of moving goods across a warming world by donkey, while his son Tommyhawk dreams of a white future.
Extinctions
Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, has moved into a retirement village to be left alone, and his neighbour Jan refuses to let him.
The White Earth
After his father's death, eight-year-old William goes to live with his great-uncle John on what is left of a great Queensland station, which the old man is obsessed with keeping from native title claims.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
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.
Carpentaria
In the Gulf Country town of Desperance, Normal Phantom, an Aboriginal elder and fisherman, his estranged son Will and the town's feuding families face a mining company and a cyclone.
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.