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NPR Best Books of 2018 "Coleman's timely debut is testimony to the power of an old story seen afresh through new eyes." --Adelaide Advertiser "In our politically tumultuous time, the novel's themes of racism, inherent humanity and freedom are particularly poignant." --Books + Publishing The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace and to bring the savages into line. Families are torn apart. Reeducation is enforced. This rich land will provide for all. This is not the Australia we know. This is not the Australia of the history books. Terra Nullius is something new, but all too familiar. Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize Indie Book Awards and Highly Commended for the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, Terra Nullius is an incredible debut from a striking new Australian Aboriginal voice. Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running. Claire G. Coleman is a writer from Western Australia. She identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. Her family are associated with the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. Claire grew up in a Forestry's settlement in the middle of a tree plantation, where her dad worked, not far out of Perth. She wrote her black&write! fellowship- winning manuscript Terra Nullius while traveling around Australia in a caravan.

About the Author :
Claire G. Coleman is a writer from Western Australia. She identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. Her family are associated with the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. Claire grew up in a Forestry's settlement in the middle of a tree plantation, where her dad worked, not far out of Perth. She wrote her black&write! fellowship-winning debut novel Terra Nullius while travelling around Australia in a caravan.

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Reading Women Award 2018 Shortlist Dublin Literary Award Nominee "A striking debut from a new Australian Aboriginal voice. The speculative-fiction lens reframes European invasion, shifting and unsettling the reader's perspective. The devastation of colonisation and displacement is explored with originality, compassion and insight." -- State Library of Queensland Dublin Literary Award Nomination "Coleman's skillful use of science fiction elements enhances her story, causing readers to recognize the alien as something all too familiar. Terra Nullius possesses a universal impact and stands as one of the best novels addressing colonialism that we've ever read." -- Reading Women "Fantastic. . . . Unbelievable." -- Liberty Hardy, Book Riot "Demonstrates Coleman's promise as a creative storyteller. VERDICT Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (Starred Review) "Coleman stuns with this imaginative, astounding debut about colonization. . . . Coleman universalizes the experiences of invaded indigenous populations in a way that has seldom been achieved. Artfully combining elements of literary, historical, and speculative fiction, this allegorical novel is surprising and unforgettable." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Australian natives living under the oppressive brutality of forced colonization struggle to survive, let alone fight back. It's little wonder that Australian Aboriginal writer Coleman has been praised and nominated for awards in her own country for her thoughtfully woke debut novel about an invasion of Australia by punishing settlers and the subsequent resistance by a native people. . . . a powerful myth comes to life before readers' eyes." -- Kirkus Reviews "Coleman's timely debut is testimony to the power of an old story seen afresh through new eyes." -- Adelaide Advertiser "Claire G. Coleman's Terra Nulllius is an arresting and original novel that addresses the legacy of Australia's violent colonial history. . . . Coleman's punchy prose is insistent throughout, its energy unflagging. Terra Nullius is a novel for our times, one whose tone is as impassioned as its message is necessary." -- Stella Prize Judges' Report "Noongar writer Claire Coleman's debut novel, Terra Nullius, envisions a continent disturbingly familiar and worryingly futuristic. . . . It is a future beyond the boundaries of familiar 21st-century post-colonial settler discourse on reconciliation and 'settlement' in a nation founded on the dispossession of Aboriginal lands, and ongoing 'unfinished business' with the first people." -- Sydney Morning Herald "A powerful, sobering piece of writing that makes us face an Australia we try to forget, but should always remember." -- Adelaide Review "A speculative sci-fi struggle meaningfully grounded in Coleman's own Indigenous culture, Terra Nullius offers something new -- a skilfully constructed pastiche of colonisation, resistance and apocalyptic chaos with parallels that sit unsettlingly close to home." -- Big Issue Australia "Coleman makes a significant contribution to the emerging body of Aboriginal writers such as Ellen van Neerven and Alexis Wright who write spectral and speculative fiction to critique the vicious fiction of the colonial archive." -- Canberra Times "Witty, weird, moving and original." -- Weekend Australian "Set in an Australia that is simultaneously recognisable and bleakly foreign, Coleman's work of speculative fiction tells a story of colonisation and displacement that is both devastating and all too familiar. In our politically tumultuous time, the novel's themes of racism, inherent humanity and freedom are particularly poignant." -- Books + Publishing


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  • ISBN-13: 9781618731524
  • Publisher: Small Beer Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Small Beer Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1618731521
  • Publisher Date: 11 Sep 2018
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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