Plains of Promise

Thirty years after it was first published in Australia, the stunning and heartbreaking debut by Alexis Wright, the only writer to twice win both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize, is available at last

In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland’s far North, black and white cultures collide in myriad ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonization at St Dominic’s Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the Mission, they are immed...