Gary Lonesborough

SHORTLISTED: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers SHORTLISTED: 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Indigenous Writing Prize SHORTLISTED: 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Indigenous Writers' Prize SHORTLISTED: 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards, Young Adult Fiction Award SHORTLISTED: 2021 QLD Literary Awards, Griffith University Young Adult Book Award 'I don't paint so much anymore,' I say, looking to my feet. 'Oh....

SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers SHORTLISTED: 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Writing for Young Adults 'A moving coming-of-age story with so much heart. For readers who enjoyed Heartstopper.' BOOKS & PUBLISHING Footsteps approach behind me. I turn and see an Aboriginal boy arriving at the doorway. He's tall, taller than me. He's got curly hair. His...

WINNER: 2024 MARION ACT Book of the Year, Books for Older ReadersWINNER: 2024 Readings Young Adult PrizeSHORTLISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's LiteratureSHORTLISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Indigenous Writers' PrizeNOTABLE BOOK: 2024 CBCA Book of the Year, Older ReadersSHORTLISTED: 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Young Adult Literature The thought comes to me: This...

As we step into the shopping centre car park, white spray-paint on the orange brick wall catches my eye. Two council workers in high-vis shirts are on ladders, scrubbing away the faded words: WHITE POWER.In the idyllic coastal town of Carraway's Point, four Aboriginal boys grew up together on Chopin Drive, carefree and close. But they drifted apart in high...