Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff

Once Were Warriors by Alan DuffOnce Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors

Ben Chifley

not even dragon fire

'Incandescent

Emily loves the bush and the native animals on her family's reforested property

and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner

they hid in terror

memorable scenes and cultural references from the Alice stories with this beautifully surreal and surprising jigsaw

His writing has won a number of awards

sooner or later

and challenged in concert and in conflict with Indigenous rights

Here is a classic outlaw tale

But the further away the memory of the revolution