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| 28 | a novel | twenty-eight years in the making | by Ilura Press co-founder and publisher, Christopher Lappas | surprising and eloquent | a mirror maze | emotional intensity | original, courageous, and memorable | a multi-layered work of genius |​
"28 is very powerful and intense, questioning again and again all the ambivalences of life and living, of destiny, motivation, and consequence. The ending is both surprising and eloquent."
​​Thomas Shapcott ​- Order of Australia for contribution to literature and the Arts, Patrick White Award
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 ALI COBBY ECKERMANN WINNER WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2017

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Congratulations to our author Ali Cobby Eckermann for being awarded the 2017 US$165,000 Windham-Campbell prize for poetry. ​ 

​An amazing achievement, so well-deserved. And what a surprise for Ali when she received the phone call of a lifetime, as she told the Guardian Australia.

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EVERY BITE ​TAKES ​YOU HOME

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Every Bite Takes You Home invites us to share in the journeys of sixteen remarkable asylum seekers who have found a home in Australia. Each person’s unique story, blended with the memories of their favourite recipes and traditions, reminds us that food can unite us all, generating acceptance and understanding across diverse cultures and societies.
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“These are intimate accounts of remarkable resilience, courage, and survival—giving a powerful voice to those who have so often been rendered voiceless in our community.”
David Manne – Executive Director RILC​
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ETCHINGS INDIGENOUS

From Black and SexyFrom Black and SexyTWO EDITIONS, bold and beautiful, that take you into the creative world of Aboriginal Australia through interviews, stories, poems, art, and photography. Find out more:

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LENTIL AS ANYTHING

Lentil as Anything

A beautifully bound and presented coffee-table cookbook with a difference. Lentil as Anything: Food Culture Community is available as a limited hardcover edition and as a softcover edition.

Gourmand Cookbook Awards

Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2013

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TOO AFRAID TO CRY

Too Afraid to Cry

Too Afraid to Cry is a memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage.

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VULA BEVALILE

Vula Bevalile

Vula Bevalile is a collection of vignettes written over several years by Australian doctor Maithri Goonetilleke, who has been contributing his time voluntarily in Swaziland—a country devastated by extreme poverty and the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

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