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A breathtaking, monumental work of collective memoir from the master Alexis Wright 

“How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?”

In Tracker, Alexis Wright tells the story of charismatic Aboriginal Australian leader Tracker Tilmouth, who died in...

Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian)

Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the...

An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly)

WINNER OF THE 2024 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD

WINNER OF THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2023 QUEENSLAND AWARD FOR...

A hypnotic and “astonishingly inventive” (O, The Oprah Magazine) novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down—where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities.

Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum...

"How to Live a Godly Life: Things I Learned in my Walk with the LORD", contains advice about faith in God, which I wrote with Scripture references. It is meant to inspire and encourage others to learn the truth, believe it and accept it, start a life-saving relationship with the Lord, or if they...

IN the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of Desperance, battle lines have been drawn in the disputes among the powerful Phantom family of the Westend Pricklebush, Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, and the white officials of neighboring towns. Trapped between politics and principle...

Have you found yourself grappling with the devastating impact of infidelity, desperately seeking a path to rebuild trust and rediscover love with your partner?

I've been in your shoes, and I understand the overwhelming emotions accompanying the discovery of betrayal. But I'm here to assure you that...

Updated and newly revised, the grassroots activism of a remote Australian town is recalled in this inspiring historical account. Frustrated by the harmful effects of alcohol in their community, the indigenous townspeople organized at a local level to halt the rampant sale of liquor and revitalize...

A novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award.

The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment...