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Best Australian Stories 2017 by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country's leading literary talents. An award-winning short-story writer herself, Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling. Previous contribu ...Show more
Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Fashionista by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: 7 Kids Picture Books
A beautiful new picture book written and illustrated by Maxine Beneba Clarke - all about the power of expressing yourself. Put on your passion. Flaunt your heart on your sleeve. You're a fashionista. Work it. Wear it. Believe. A gorgeous gift book for anyone who wants to embrace their individuality fr ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist 2015 Literary Fiction Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015 Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013 Shorlisted: ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writers 2015 UTS Glenda Adams Debut Fic ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Winner: Sydney Morning Heral ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
It's the Sound of the Thing : 100 new poems for young people by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
It’s the Sound of the Thing is an exuberant and evocative collection of poetry for young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australia’s most innovative and celebrated poets. This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
We Know a Place (HB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
A joyous illustrated tribute to bookshops everywhere, and the special place they hold in children's hearts and minds, from of one Australia's most beloved writers. We know a place that's mysterious-magic,a window to lives you can't even imagine.We know a secret world-wakening secret,a brain-boggling se ...Show more