True Country

Miles Franklin Award winner, Kim Scott’s debut novel about Indigenous Australians in far north Australia. pp 255 #0218/1020

Billy is drifting, looking for a place to land. A young school teacher, he arrives in Australia’s remote far north in search of his own history, his Aboriginality, and his future. He finds himself in a region of abundance and beauty but also of conflict, dispossession and dislocation. On the desperate frontier between cultures, Billy must find his place of belonging. (Bookshop stamp on prelim, encased in protective cover, some penil scoring.)