Manhattan Dreaming
$20.69
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2023
Summary
From award-winning Wiradyuri author, Anita Heiss, comes a fun, light-hearted and empowering story featuring a deadly Koori heroine who is forced to choose between her dream job and the man of her dreams.
Lauren is a curator at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She’s good at her job, passionate about the arts, and focused on her work – that is, when she’s not focusing on Adam, halfback for the Canberra Cockatoos.
But Adam is a player, both on and off the field. Laure…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761109959 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761109952 |
| Author: | Anita Heiss |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 171mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Heiss captures all the wide-eyed excitement of Manhattan: the sights; the shopping; the history; and of course the men. Like the author, Lauren is a member of the Wiradyuri nation. Her deep connection to her people and culture is a vital part of the story, and what sets Manhattan Dreaming apart from other chick-lit? It’s a contemporary romance with spunk, and I enjoyed it a lot. – Australian Bookseller and Publisher
‘There is political content and a subtle weaving of information about Aboriginal culture while on the surface there’s the romance and situational comedy that attracts many reader.’ * Brisbane News *
‘With the classic romantic ending up the Empire State Building (you just knew it was coming), this may well get you appreciating Aboriginal art and dreaming of a life in the Big Apple.’ * The West Australian *
Anita Heiss
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of over 20 books, spanning non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, and children’s novels.
A proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, Dr Heiss is an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation. She is also a Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland and the Publisher at Large of Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster dedicated to cultivating First Nations talent.
As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage. The play premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival and was produced by Belvoir St for the Sydney Festival in 2024.
Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, which recounts the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Dr Heiss’s first children’s picture book, Bidhi Galing (Big Rain), also explores the Great Flood of Gundagai.
In 2024, she released Dirrayawadha (Rise Up), focusing on the frontier war in Bathurst. Her most recent novel is The Paradise Pact.
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