With NAIDOC week fast approaching, Audible has announced five new exclusive audiobook releases from First Nations authors.
To celebrate NAIDOC week, audiobook company Audible has announced a number of releases scheduled for July 5, all of which come from First Nations authors.
The books being released on the platform are as follows:
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
A collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.
Legacy by Larissa Behrendt
Narrated by Shakira Clanton, Simone Harlowe is a young Indigenous lawyer, straddling two lives and two cultures while studying for her Masters at Harvard. Her family life in Sydney is defined by the complex relationship she has with her father Tony, a prominent and respected figure in the Aboriginal community.
Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
Narrated by Tuuli Narkle, Stacey and Laney are Twins – mirror images of each other – and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her.
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
Narrated by Tasma Walton, when Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree chanced, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title was between the local Bundjalung families.
The Boundary by Nicole Watson
Narrated by Sandy Greenwood, hours after rejecting the Corrowa People’s native title claim on Brisbane’s Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead. Aboriginal people were once prohibited from entering Brisbane’s city limits at night, and Meston Park stood on the boundary.
NAIDOC week runs from July 3 to July 10, 2022.
