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A Most Peculiar Act by Marie Munkara
Category: Young Adult
The story follows the trials and tribulations of Sugar, a 16 year-old Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller. Set in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids, we meet characters such as: Horatio Humphris (Horrid Hump), Chief Protector of Aborigines, teetotaller and 42 year old virgin; Ralphie Brown, who has the ...Show more
A Most Peculiar Act - A Novel by Marie Munkara
Category: Fiction
The story follows the trials and tribulations of Sugar, a 16 year-old Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller. Set in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids, we meet characters such as: Horatio Humphris (Horrid Hump), Chief Protector of Aborigines, teetotaller and 42 year old virgin; Ralphie Brown, who has the ...Show more
Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara
Category: Fiction
In the mission era in the remote north of Australia, it was a battle between saving souls and saving traditional culture. Every Secret Thing offers a rough, tough and uncompromising portrayal of the Bush Mob and the Mission Mob. Woven through these stories are the themes of social and cultural dominance ...Show more
Every Secret Thing: A Novel by Marie Munkara
Category: Fiction
'Like Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, this is a landmark text in indigenous writing. It is a work of immense spirit, ingenuity and narrative confidence.' – Gail JonesEvery Secret Thing is a nothing-is-sacred misadventure that crackles with Marie Munkara’s famous acerbic humour.Set in the early days of miss ...Show more
Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea by Marie Munkara
Category: Biography
Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie Munkara's life forever. Until that moment she had no idea of ...Show more
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