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Born: Established: 1948 St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland, ;
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1 y separately published work icon Jilya : How One Indigenous Woman from the Pilbara Transformed Psychology Tracy Westerman , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27666775 2024 single work autobiography

'From humble beginnings in the remote Pilbara, psychologist and Nyamal woman Tracy Westerman has redefined what’s possible at every turn. Despite neither of her parents progressing past primary school, and never having met a psychologist before attending university, Tracy went on to become the first Aboriginal person in Australia to complete a PhD in Clinical Psychology, rising to become one of the country’s foremost psychologists. Against significant odds, she commenced her own private business to challenge the way the mental health profession responds to cultural difference, and recently established a charitable foundation and scholarship program to mentor Indigenous people from our highest-risk communities to become psychologists.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Everything Is Water : A River-walking Journey Simon Cleary , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27476622 2024 single work autobiography

'Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journey

''I want to go with the river's flow, not against it. I want to follow where the river leads - to listen, to observe, hopefully to learn.'

'When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks - from its source to where it empties into the bay - he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and communities who rely on it.

'Cleary's ambitious journey, alone and with companions, explores the ways rivers connect landscapes, ecologies, histories, communities and myth. But his journey along the unpredictable and magnificent Brisbane River threatens to be cut short by one of the wettest autumn months on record. Over four eventful weeks and 344 kilometres we are witness to the river in all its beauty and fury.

'Everything is Water considers our complex relationship with nature through flood, drought, time and place. It is an inspiring pilgrimage that invites us to connect with nature and also to navigate our own path.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Black Witness : The Power of Indigenous Media Amy McQuire , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27476578 2024 selected work essay

'A searing indictment of the media's failures in reporting Indigenous affairs - and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice.

'From one of this country's leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media need to believe Black witnesses and showcasing ways that journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account and make the world a more equitable place.

'Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was seventeen years old and, over the past eighteen years, has reported on most of the key events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including numerous deaths in custody, the Palm Island uprising, the Bowraville murders and the Northern Territory Intervention. She has also drawn attention to the misrepresentations and violence of mainstream media accounts, and also to their omissions and silences in regards to Indigenous matters altogether. In myriad ways the mainstream media has repeatedly failed to report accurately, responsibly or comprehensively on Indigenous affairs.

'Black Witness is the essential collection of First Nations journalism that we need right now - and always have.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Circadia Judith Bishop , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27476532 2024 selected work poetry

'A dazzling new poetry collection from award-winning poet Judith Bishop, a conclusion to her trilogy focused on time.

'Perched on a tablecloth with glasses

for a summer drink- life, on its haunches

like a kitten, thoughtful.

Extending a paw- What happens if?

'Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grieve the daily devastations of war, extinction, illness, death, and disconnection, yet find their way back into clearings transfigured by the energies of art, children, and the sheer incandescence of existence.

'These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Killarney Nikki Mottram , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27372011 2024 single work novel crime mystery

'Small Town. Big Secrets. The second Dana Gibson mystery.

'When child protection worker Dana Gibson arrives in the sleepy rural town of Killarney, she has one goal in mind- locate the whereabouts of foster child Jayden Maloney and return him to care. What she isn't anticipating is an unexpected attraction to her colleague's younger brother Sean, or to become embroiled in their simmering family feud. When criminal allegations surface against a member of the local parish and a police task force discovers an increase in drug trafficking across the border, Dana is forced to consider that Jayden's disappearance is not simply a case of a teen on the run. To complicate matters further, torrential rain leads the Condamine River to break its banks, and the town gets cut off.

'As Dana continues to ask questions, tensions peak with the rising flood waters and she soon realises that the tightknit community is not all that it seems. As long-held secrets start to unravel and loyalties are questioned, Dana must make a decision about who she can trust and how much she is willing to fight for what she believes in.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Love, Death and Other Scenes Nova Weetman , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27254500 2024 single work autobiography

'Nova Weetman’s unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her life, including: losing her beloved partner, playwright Aidan Fennessy, during the 2020 Covid lockdown; the death of her mother ten years earlier; her daughter turning eighteen and finishing school; and her own physical ageing. Using these events as a lens, Nova considers how various kinds of losses – and the complicated love they represent – change us and can become the catalysts for letting go.

'This is a moving, honest account of farewelling a partner of twenty-five years, parenting teenagers through grief, buying property for the first time at the age of fifty, watching Aidan live on through his plays, and learning to appreciate spending hours alone with only the household cat for company. Warm and wise – and often joyful – Love, Death & Other Scenes ultimately focuses on the living we do after losses and what we learn from them.'  (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Breath : A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival Carly-Jay Metcalfe , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27137025 2024 single work autobiography

'A triumphant story of hope and survival

'I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room.

'Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and faced a rare cancer at the age of thirty. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills.

'From her hospitalised childhood to her many friendships, loves and losses, Carly-Jay shares the fickle nature of life with candour and warmth. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor's guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage.

'Breath is a stunningly frank and darkly funny memoir about living, dying and trying to breathe.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Other Side of Daylight : New and Selected Poems David Brooks , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27136996 2024 selected work poetry

'A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career

'A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while people were still alive. Elephants are shot and skinned by poachers and remote Indigenous communities are shut down for want of infrastructural funding. And with tenderness and humility, a simple gift of peanuts to magpies, sheep and a tentative rat reframes the place of the human in the world.

'David Brooks's longstanding concerns for justice and the relationship between human and non-human animals infuse and enliven his work. Wise, lyrical and timely, The Other Side of Daylight distils a long and honoured poetry career with a marvellous selection from his five previous volumes and The Peanut Vendor, a collection of forty-eight luminous new poems.' (Publication summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon Always Will Be : Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed Mykaela Saunders , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27136924 2024 selected work short story science fiction fantasy

'From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted.

'In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question—what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty?

'Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the Tweed. In one, a group of girls plot their escape from a home they have no memory of entering. In another, two men make a final visit to the country they love as they contemplate a new life in a faraway place. Saunders imagines different scenarios for how the local Goori community might reassert sovereignty - reclaiming country, exerting full self-determination, or incorporating non-Indigenous people into the social fabric - while practising creative, ancestrally approved ways of living with changing climates.

'Epic in scope, and with a diverse cast of characters, Always Will Be is the ground-breaking winner of the 2022 David Unaipon Award. This is a forward-thinking collection that refuses cynicism and despair, and instead offers entertaining stories that celebrate Goori ways of being, knowing, doing - and becoming' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Gawimarra : Gathering Jeanine Leane , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 27046217 2024 selected work poetry 'This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colony. Jeanine Leane’s poems are richly palpable in texture, imagery and language, layering the personal with the political, along with a sharp-tongued telling of history. Cleverly divided into three parts, ‘Gathering’, ‘Nation’ and ‘Returning’, Gawimarra weaves back and forth in a dedication to strong matriarchs, and the core acts of gathering and returning – memory, language, history – resonate powerfully throughout. A remarkable book that is the result of decades of poetic, political, and cultural work and reflection.' 

(Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Leo and Ralph Peter Carnavas , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852439 2024 single work children's fiction children's

'From award-winning storyteller Peter Carnavas comes this stellar novel about space, starting over and the best friend you could ever imagine.

'Ralph sat up. His voice was croaky. ‘If a shooting star zoomed past right now, what would you wish for?’ ‘To find another friend like you.’

'Leo and Ralph have been best friends ever since Ralph flew down from one of Jupiter’s moons. But now Leo’s older, and Mum and Dad think it’s time to say goodbye to Ralph. When the family moves to a small country town, they hope Leo might finally make a real friend. But someone like Ralph is hard to leave behind... 

'Perfect for kids who enjoy gentle, thoughtful stories like The Wild Robot by Peter Brown and the Polly and Buster series by Sally Rippin.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Three Dresses Wanda Gibson , Wanda Gibson (illustrator), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852396 2024 single work picture book children's

'An important true story by Nukgal Wurra author-illustrator Wanda Gibson about connection to place and the joy of family, based on her childhood holidays to the beach.

'Three Dresses tells the true story of Wanda Gibson’s experiences as a child growing up in a Lutheran Mission in the 1950s in Far North Queensland, Australia. Rations of food, clothing and materials were provided under strict conditions, but somehow Wanda and her family made the memories of these second-hand dresses ones that were cherished and shared for generations to come.' 

1 y separately published work icon Yanga Mother Cheryl Leavy , Cheryl Leavy (illustrator), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852350 2024 single work picture book children's

'Wandaguli Yanga.There is always Mother. Yilungga yabangga. Everywhere. Wandhan-wandhanja. Everywhen.

'From Kooma and Nguri writer Cheryl Leavy comes this lyrical bilingual picture book about the all-encompassing love of mothers, layered with meaning and historical truth-telling.

'Yanga Mother honours the unbreakable spirit of the First Nations women of Western Queensland, and all First Nations mothers.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Bila, a River Cycle Jazz Money , Matt Chun (illustrator), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852315 2024 single work picture book children's 'What became of the river who rose up and called
themself human?
'Stepped upon the land containing the memories
of snow melt and wellspring.' 

(Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Gorgon Flower John Richards , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852285 2024 selected work short story

'These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, 'The Gorgon Flower'.

'A young woman is haunted by the disappearance of her grandmother, a brilliant mathematician whose research uncovered the basis for parallel universes. A botanist travels across the seas in search of an elusive, deadly flower that was also his late father's obsession. A talented painter produces his best work - unsettling masterpieces with strange, fantastical elements - years after he was last seen in person.

'In this gothic-inspired collection of stories, John Richards pushes the limits of what short fiction can be. With settings that range from rural France to medieval Italy and nineteenth-century Borneo, The Gorgon Flower is an impressively crafted, engrossing debut by a bold new writer.(Publication summary) 

1 y separately published work icon Big Time Jordan Prosser , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852251 2024 single work novel fantasy 'Set in a not-too-distant future where the Eastern states of Australia have become the world’s newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all – Big Time is an anti- fascist ode to the power of pop music and a lament for the end of your 20s. A satirical black comedy about art in the face of entropy, wrapped up in a spec-fic road-trip saga.' 

(Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Ghost Cities Siang Lu , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852214 2024 single work novel

'A cruel Emperor. An innocent brother, exiled to the sixth level of hell. A beautiful woman, imprisoned in a labyrinth beneath the palace. These are the players in a tale in which a series of ever-more-ingenious escapes are hatched; a chess-playing automaton is forged; an assassination or three attempted; and where every single book in the known Empire is destroyed - then re-created, page by page and book by book - all in the name of love and art.

'Meanwhile, in modern-day Australia: Xiang, a young Chinese-Australian man, is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney’s Chinese Consulate when HR discovers he doesn’t even speak a word of Chinese, and has been relying on Google Translate to do all his work. A doctor’s diagnosis reveals that he suffers from Taikophobia (fear of Chinese people) and, later, Anglophobia (fear of Westerners). Despite these impediments, he soon finds himself in China, in one of the country’s infamous ‘ghost cities’, those modern-day labyrinths built by the Chinese government to maintain an aggressive GDP. The once-empty ghost city of Port Man Tou has now been turned into a gigantic film set ...' (Publication summary)

1 2 y separately published work icon First Nations Classics Series 2023 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2023- 25553020 2023 series - publisher
2 y separately published work icon The Wish Sisters Allison Rushby , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2023- 2023 series - author children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon The Christmas Wish Allison Rushby , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2023 26660435 2023 single work children's fiction children's

'It’s Christmastime, but Flick and Birdie are missing their Granny Aggie. To cheer them up, Mum and Dad invite the neighbours over to decorate gingerbread houses. All is going well until Mrs Mortlake brings up Christmas wishes, giving baby Birdie all the wrong ideas.

'How can Flick spread the joy of Christmas when a gingerbread person is biting the guests?' (Publication summary)

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