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Carrying the World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'one of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade' - Overland Literary Journal A haunting visit to the International Museum of Slavery, in Liverpool England. A feisty young black girl pushing back against authority. The joy and despair of single parenthood. A love-hate relationship wit ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Winner: Sydney Morning Heral ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde ...Show more
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,we're saying black people are wonderful-strong. That we deserve to be treated with basic respect,and that history's done us wrong. From birth to the end of school, in joy and in sorrow, on the trumpet and the djembe, at home and in the community, a black child' ...Show more
Wide Big World by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Being Yourself | Reading Level: 7 Kids picture
Difference is everywhere, just look and see. This whole-wide-big-world is wondrous-unique. A beautiful children's picture book about diversity and our wonderful world from award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrator Isobel Knowles.
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