Australiana by Yumna Kassab

Australiana by Yumna KassabShortlisted for the University Of Queensland Fiction Book Award The real deal. Favel Parrett, author of Past the Shallows and There Was Still Love 'Kassab creates an eerie sense of place as the reader is drawn into myriad perspectives and geographies. Without doubt Australiana is an unnerving contribution to contemporary novel writing in this continent.' Books + Publishing poetic, wise and peppered with black humour. T: The New York Times Style

The most effective way to stand up for himself without resorting to violence or losing his sweet nature3

award-winning historian and author

Evocative and intimate

His son Robin is funny

this book provides an in-depth understanding of the colonised context within which education in Australia is located

and now we know how they did it

communities and ecologies

ËœA comprehensive history of the food of Australia

betrayal“and perhaps even death

' Eve Rodsky

will it bring hope

She still remains famous for her bestselling books The Great Australian Loneliness