Bitin' Back (First Nations Classics) by Vivienne Cleven

Bitin' Back (First Nations Classics) by Vivienne ClevenNow included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Melissa Lucashenko, Bitin' Back is a rollicking comic novel that nimbly blends the realities of small town prejudice and racial intolerance. When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush cunning and fast footwork

to the intricately tangled trees of family - all of it is dazzlingly delivered in a framework inspired by the actual growth rings of a tree

} The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E

Geena regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent in Stuart Little

compelling - Dolly Alderton

from hailstorms to heart attacks - and

} A story about what it means to be a friend …

the battles that have been fought there

humanity and the transformative power of challenging expeditions to help us grow wiser

bent with time and weariness

The beginnings of this dictionary and learner's guide were in the 1970s when Gudjal people began working with linguists to record their language

and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war

And how does motherhood change us