Robert Kenny

"The Lamb" traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people. Pepper was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria's Wimmera region. In their wake came the Christian missionaries, who were just as hostile to the settlers violence as they were to the traditional beliefs of Aboriginal people. Pepper converted to Christianity in 1860, and began an extraordinary story of his attempts to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable differences between his culture and the symbolic nature of Chrisianity.

Now back in print. 

The Last of the Nomads tells of the extraordinary journey in search of Warri and Yatungka who were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe. The Mandildjara were desert nomads who lived in the traditional way.

The story of their rescue and how they survived the previous 30 years in the Gibson Desert makes absorbing reading.

Warri and Yatungka died in the late 1970s and marked the end of a tribal life that stretched back more than 30,000 years

Compiled by Christobel Swan and Marlene Cousens.

Pertame is the southern dialect of Arrernte, one of Central Australia's Arandic languages. It belongs to the country south of Alice Springs around the Finke and Hugh Rivers. Christobel Swan and Marlene Cousens work at the Institute for Aboriginal Development's Language Centre in Alice Springs as interpreters and translators.

Listening to Country

Shortlisted for both The Age Book of the Year and The Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award
'This big land, Australia. It's big enough for everyone!' calls Annie Karrakayn across the pre-dawn campfire to the other Law women stirring from the perfect quiet of a still, desert night. 'Strong Dreamin' ' she whispers.
So begins the intimate diary of Ros Moriarty, a white woman married to an Aboriginal man, as she takes an emotional journey across country and culture to the Northern Territory's Tanami Desert with Annie and the other matriarchs of her husband's Aboriginal family to perform ceremony.
Full of warmth and honesty, Listening to Country opens a rare and vivid window to the voices, humour and strength of these remarkable Law women of the remote Gulf of Carpentaria. It reveals the human relationships and philosophical insights which enable them to transcend the heartbreaking material poverty, illness and increasing violence of their community, to live life with astonishing happiness and purpose.
Listening to Country is an uplifting tribute to them and a celebration of love, family and belonging.

Douglas Lockwood

The Lizard Eaters tells the fascinating story of a 1963 trip by the author, a Melbourne Herald journalist at the time, into the Gibson Desert, and the discovery of some Pintubi people who had never before set eyes on a white face. It is also of the great respect he developed for these people who lived in unbelievably harsh conditions for thousands of years.

S/cover 171 pages with a number of black & white photos

The first is Lola's life story; an oral history that gives the reader direct access to Lola's strength of character, commitment and wicked sense of humour. The second is a list of plants and their uses compiled by Anna Vitenbergs and Lola for the Wakuthuni Community in the Pilbara.

Lola and Anne met at Lola's home in Tom Price over a period of eighteen months to check and expand the plant list and record Lola's story. Each plant, and there are 60 in total, is accompanied by a full colour photograph.  The book includes a CD of Lola's songs (passed on to Lola from her ancestors) and recorded by Gumala, at an Aboriginal recording studio in Tom Price.

John Wilson. Lori - I was born in a canefield, amongst the long stalks late at night. there mother squatted down and pushed me screaming into this world, this life, this pub in Kirai.

The story of Boori Pryor. From his birth in the Aboriginal fringe camp, to the catwalk, the basketball court and now to performance and storytelling around the country. "Play the whiteman's game but stay black while you're doing it."

Boori Monty Pryor & Meme McDonald

Seraphim Sanz de Galdeano & Dolores Djinmora

When the true story of Australia's  involvement with the far North Kimberley comes to be written, few local reputations will survive wholly untarnished. But one name will stand out: that of the Spanish missionary monk, Dom Serephim Sanz, whose profound, self-sacrificing love for the indigenous people of Kalumburu has been measured out over the course of six decades. These pages, published only after long struggle, detail the observations and reflections of a remarkable man condemned to live through dark times.