WAAGAAN The Bloody Crow
Murder, fracking licences and a forty-year-old mystery consume Aunty June Thomas
$29.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2027
Summary
‘Evocative, deeply moving, at once tragic and laugh out loud hilarious.’ - PAUL DALEY
A murder on Country. A forty-year-old disappearance. A community fighting to protect its land.
As Aunty June follows the truth, she discovers that the oldest wounds are the hardest to heal.
With her unique humour and environmental fervour, Julie Janson has written a cracking story of crimes past, present and continuing.
When Barry Two Mile Riley is found dead near a remote gas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761620645 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761620649 |
| Author: | Julie Janson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2027 |
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Julie Janson
Julie is a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal nation in New South Wales. She is a novelist, playwright, and poet.
In her early years as a teacher, Julie lived in remote Northern Territory Yolngu communities, where she wrote plays and created giant puppets, masks, and costumes with her Yolngu students. Her career as a playwright has led to ten productions at various theatres, including Belvoir St Theatre, the Adelaide Festival Centre, and the Sydney Opera House Studio. Her plays, Black Mary and Gunjies, were published by Aboriginal Studies Press and have been produced in Arizona, USA, and Makassar, Indonesia.
Her Indigenous crime novel, Madukka the River Serpent, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Davitt Award. Benevolence, a historical novel, was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award and longlisted for the NIB Literary Award and the Voss Literary Prize. Compassion is the sequel to Benevolence.
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