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Time is a Mother | Ocean Vuong | $29.99 | Random House Gorgeous, lyrical prose shines forth from a favourite author of all Better Read staff over the years. This startling collection of poems is deeply emotive and will move you to tears. As suggested in the title, time is required to digest the beauty of Vuong’s words as he captures the binds of familial relationships. Tender and moving, Vuong always captures my heart and says so much in so few words. I absolutely adored this. - Dean
Bedtime Story | Chloe Hooper | $34.99 | Simon and Schuster With immense skill and vulnerability, Chloe Hooper takes us inside the experience of learning her partner has cancer, and finding a way to explain this to her young sons. She turns to children’s stories, trying to find a parable that is adequately wise, a story that has the words she does not, to accompany them through this time. This book is both a memoir and a guiding light for families experiencing darkness and loss. It is deeply felt, engrossing, and beautifully crafted. - Tahlia
Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth | Melissa Greenwood | $24.99 | Harper Collins Gumbaynggirr custodian and artist Melissa Greenwood is one of my favourite creators, and her brand new picture book for young readers is just stunning! Warm pinks, oranges, yellows and blues combine to create landscapes which perfectly capture Mother Earth (Miimi Marraal). This is a story of humanity, animals, plants, mountains (juluum), rivers (bindarray) and the seas (gaagal), told for a young audience. It reads as a letter from mother to child, and makes clear our place in Country. - Steph
Bitter | Akwaeke Emezi | $16.99 | Allen and Unwin Bitter is a coming of age story with bite. We follow our protagonist as she navigates social uprising and protest while developing her creativity and trying to find where she belongs. Written in Emezi’s signature no-nonsense and assured style, this novel places you directly in the action from page one. A novel for every teenager and young adult today. - Jimmy
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This All Come Back Now | Edited by Mykaela Saunders | $32.99 | University of Queensland Press Everything you’d hope for from the first-ever anthology of speculative fiction by First Nations authors: lyrical, articulate, transformative, and deeply, deeply creative. Saunders describes the creation of this book as curating a mixtape; the piecing together of different songs to create an experience entirely unique. A collection unlike any other. - Leona
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