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Mudrooroo
This is the story of an Aboriginal youth, a bodgie of the early 1960s. He grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town, falls into petty crime, goes…
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This book collates and explain the many fascinating elements of Aboriginal culture: the song circles and stories, artefacts, landmarks, characters and customs.
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This book collates and explain the many fascinating elements of Aboriginal culture: the song circles and stories, artefacts, landmarks, characters and customs. From the author of Wild Cat Falling, Dr…
If ever there was hope that our theatre might be ambitious, then this is it. If ever there was hope that our theatre might transcend its past and, through courage…
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Imaginative, cosmopolitan, and full of ironies and complexities, this collection established Mudrooroo in the top rank of Australia’s poets.
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Indigenous Literature of Australia
Mudrooroo’s classic novel of Aboriginal teenagers in Perth was published to great acclaim in 1987. This is the story of their young leader invoking the spirit of the mythic hero…
The First National Black Playwrights Conference and Workshop held in Canberra in January 1987 was a hectic affair. More than one participant called on Mudrooroo to use the proceedings (in…
Balga Boy Jackson is the long awaited new novel of Mudrooroo. He returns to his roots to give us a vivid life story of an Australian Black Boy - naturally…
Mudrooroo (aka Colin Johnson) had planned to write a multi-volume autobiography, but passed away in January 2019 shortly after completing the first installment, Tripping with Jenny. It is published here…
In Mudrooroo’s unforgettable novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, the author evokes with fullest irony the bewilderment and frailty of the last native Tasmanians, as they come face…
In the first years of the 19th century a small Aboriginal tribe reels under the threat of white invasion of their ancestral lands… a story of survival - physical, metaphysical…
A daring and thrilling journey into a fantastical world of shamans and vampires where Aboriginal dreaming and Gothic horror are woven together in early Australian colonial history.
A third title by this well-known Aboriginal writer in his Master of the Ghost Dreaming series.
Set during the gold rush days, The Promised Land concludes Mudrooroos fantastical voyage through the history of Australia around the time of its colonisation by the British. This is satire…
Adam Shoemaker
A study of all of Mudrooroo’s (Colin Jackson’s) books up to The Kwinkan - his poetry, criticism and unpublished novels. Adam Shoemaker is the editor of Paperback Anthology , and…
Mudrooroo Nyoongah
The first novel by an Aboriginal to be published in Australia, this is the story of an Aboriginal youth in the early sixties who grows up on the ragged outskirts…
Maureen Clark
Mudrooroo: A Likely Story reads the fiction of one of Australia’s most controversial and enigmatic literary figures against the backdrop of the likelihood that he assumed an Aboriginal identity to…
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Joan Lindsay
Joan Lindsay’s classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The…
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