The award-winning story finds Federal policeman Aaron Falk returning to his drought-stricken hometown of Kiewarra–a community that long ago rejected him–for the funeral of an old friend, his wife and child. The Dry By Jane Harperīefore The Dry was brought to life on the big screen through actor Eric Bana’s gripping dramatic performance in 2020, it was the bestselling debut novel of Australian author Jane Harper. Aboriginal people were once prohibited from entering Brisbane’s city limits at night, and Meston Park stood on the boundary. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead. Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People’s native title claim on Brisbane’s Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title was between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree chanced, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend.
Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Stacey and Laney are twins -mirror images of each other, and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Her family life in Sydney is defined by the complex relationship she has with her father Tony, a prominent and respected figure in the Aboriginal community. Narrated by Shakira Clanton, Simone Harlowe is a young Indigenous lawyer, straddling two lives and two cultures while studying for her Masters at Harvard.
Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out. Another Day In The Colony By Chelsea WategoĪ collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. We've tried to hit a range of genres to please every ear and offer a listen for every mood. But with life continuously moving, that's not always possible–which is when the convenient joy of listening to audiobooks comes in handy.įrom the fantastic work of professional voice actors taking on the mannerisms and notes of our favourite characters to authors reading their own autobiographies–listening to an audiobook is a unique and effortless way to consume content. Don't get us wrong, we absolutely love picking up a book and sitting down for a long session of page-turning.
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