Welcome to Ilura Press

Welcome to ilura press

Ilura Press is an independent boutique publishing house founded in 2006. We specialise in high-quality publications and produce the creative journal Etchings. We hope you enjoy browsing through our website.

New Release

Lentil as Anything: Food, Culture, Community

Hard-cover, 200pp
250mm x 220mm
ISBN: 9781921325052
RRP: $54.00
August 2011

Ilura Press and Lentil as Anything, with assistance from the National Australia Bank and the Australia Council for the Arts, are pleased to present a coffee-table cookbook with a difference! Lentil as Anything: Food, Culture, Community is a publication celebrating food, writing, and cultural diversity. Read more

You can order a copy through our online bookshop, or become a Friend of Lentil as Anything, receiving this beautiful hard-cover collection as part of your membership.

For the festive season, we are offering free postage right up until Christmas! With profit of sales going directly to Lentil as Anything, this book makes for a perfect Christmas gift.

Previous Releases

:etchings 9: Love & Something

In :etchings 9, you will be taken on a date with Oscar-winning clay-animator Adam Elliot, strip off your skin, caress Bach on a cello, time-travel with a cowboy, dream the fantastic, lose your religion and break your heart.

The new-look :etchings includes interviews, book reviews, and more of the wonderful stories and poetry you've come to love.

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Etchings Indigenous: Treaty

Etchings Indigenous: Treaty is the second volume of new work from emerging and established Aboriginal artists and writers, featuring stories, poetry, art, photography, and a range of reviews, interviews, and insights.

With contributions by Bruce Pascoe, Lionel Fogarty, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Maryanne Sam, Melissa McAllister, Patsy Smith, Tony Birch, Peter Waples-Crowe, Wayne Quilliam, James Henry, and many others. Read more