{"product_id":"9780702271144","title":"Not Quite White in the Head","description":"Author: Lucashenko, Melissa\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780702271144\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Queensland Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Nov 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'For thousands of years, global narratives have had, as their explicit task, the expansion of the human heart.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMelissa Lucashenko is one of our most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis timely collection of essays and journalism - published together for the first time - spans two turbulent decades. With her trademark wit and wisdom, Lucashenko reflects on being caught in a siege, on the marginalised lives of prisoners and the urban poor, on Blak identity, Australian literature and on meeting her writing idol. Her non-fiction, like her novels, is deeply engaged with politics, activism, culture and social (in)justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Quite White in the Head\u003c\/i\u003e offers unprecedented access to one of the nation's greatest writers as she invites us into the conversations that truly matter.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729827025054,"sku":"UBD-9780702271144","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780702271144.jpg?v=1776650596","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780702271144","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}