Mark Dunn

SHORTLISTED, Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021 SHORTLISTED, Kay Daniels Award In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names, and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second...

Ella Minnow Pea is a novel told through a series of letters, set on the fictional island of Nollop, home to the great Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". The islanders have erected a monument to their hero, but one day the letter 'z' falls from the statue's inscription. To the...