Alexis Wright

A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize. In this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's...

One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright's Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wright's first work of fiction since 2014. Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance...

Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024 Winner, Stella Prize 2024 Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024 Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024 Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024 Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2023, Work of State Significance Shortlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 The new novel from the internationally acclaimed,...

Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024 Winner, Stella Prize 2024 Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024 Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024 Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024 Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2023, Work of State Significance Shortlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 The new novel from the internationally acclaimed,...

Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wright's classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wright's first work of fiction since 2014. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by...

Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Alexis Wright returns to non-fiction in her new book, Tracker,...

A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright. First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpired over 25 years ago, Grog War provides historical context and Indigenous-led solutions to the challenges...