Jane Harrison

From award-winning author, Jane Harrison, comes an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. WINNER OF THE 2024 INDIE BOOK DEBUT FICTION AWARD Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize 'An extraordinary read.' Herald Sun On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, representing the...

Through a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates was one of the oldest universities in the country. Our paths had just intersected. It was 1985 and I, little black duck, was about to embark on a law degree. Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journey of a young Aboriginal teenager as...

The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called 'my hero'. First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison's Reminiscences of a Student's Life are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian education 'ingeniously useless', who blazed a trail for female scholars, and who changed the way we...