AUSTRALIA AUTHOR · ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS
Kim Scott
Most acclaimed
Taboo
St. John-Duras #3 Married against her will to the brutal Russian general who conquered her people, Countess Teo Korsakova has never known what it means to want a man...until now. Trapped behind enemy lines, held captive by her husband's most formidable foe, she should fear for her life. But all Teo feels in General Andre Duras's shattering presence is breathless passion. France's most victorious commander, Andre knows that he should do the honorable thing, knows too that on the eve of battle he cannot afford so luscious a distraction. Yet something about Teo lures him to do the unthinkable: to seduce his enemy's wife, and to let himself love a woman who can never be his. St. John-Duras Sinful (St. John-Duras, #1) Wicked (St. John-Duras, #2) Taboo (St. John-Duras, #3) A Touch of Sin (St. John-Duras, #4) Legendary Lover (St. John-Duras, #5)
True country
1993
Authors first novel, set in a remote Aboriginal mission in the north-west of W.A.
Benang
"Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first whiteman born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?" "Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilised from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past."--Jacket.