Pat Lowe

The Girl with No Name by Pat Lowe is set in the dramatic beauty of the Kimberley region. This is the poignant story of Matthew and his unusual friendship with an Aboriginal girl.

The first draft of this book was written under a tree on the slope of a sandhill where, for several years, Englishwoman Pat Lowe shared a desert camp with her lifetime partner, Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike. While spending time in the red heart of the country that had been home to the Walmajarri people for thousands of years, they recorded...

Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent, Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Eirlys Richards, and Pat Lowe tells the compelling story of Ngarta and Jukuna, who lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed the country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. It was a time of change, as desert people who had lived...

Age range 8 to 13'Mana was born under a tree. The country she grew up in was wide as the sky, and the sun shone hot for most of the year. In every direction was sand: deep, red, warm sand that showed the footprints of every creature that walked on it...'Beneath the hot, blue sky, Mana is joined by her...

Age range 9 - 12The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of Australia - one of the most marginal...

Age range 9 - 12Gradually, Yinti and Wara grew accustomed to station life. They no longer ran and hid when they saw a motorcar coming along the road towards them.The third book in the Yinti series of three books.Desert Cowboy is the story of Yinti's return to the cattle station and of his life as a stockman. Over these years Yinti...

Age range 9 - 12The second book in the Yinti series.Yinti and the hunting dingo, Spinifex, walk out of the desert together and Yinti sees a white man for the first time: 'Look at that kartiya,' whispered Yinti, giggling. 'You can see the blood through his skin!'When the dingo, Spinifex, is taken  from her mother, she expects to be killed. Instead she...

What I See on Walmajarri Country is the first title in the beautifully crafted What I See on Country series. Created for little hands and big imaginations, this book invites families to connect with the spirit of Walmajarri Country. Walmajarri Country is home to the Walmajarri people and located south of Fitzroy Crossing and the Christmas Creek Valley in the...